Protesters and police are clashing on campuses, yet again. A Democratic presidential convention is careening toward Chicago, yet again.

Here at the intersection where news meets punditry and propaganda, we are being bombarded by warnings that a replay of 1968 seems unavoidable. Some are top-tier insights. Others are clearly top-activist incites...Read more

During an interview with Howard Stern on April 26, President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to debate Donald Trump. Biden and his campaign should rethink and rescind this offer, or else they should attach a nonnegotiable condition on their participation in any debate with Trump.

Hold that thought. First, let’s acknowledge that Biden ...Read more

The U.S. consumer is increasingly tapped out, and the effects are being felt in even the strongest, most resilient brands out there. Exhibit A is Starbucks.

The Seattle-based coffee chain, ubiquitous in the U.S. and increasingly a truly global franchise, on Wednesday laid one of the biggest eggs it ever has on Wall Street with a first-quarter ...Read more

Student protest movements in America are often messy and divisive, but they tend to be on the right side of history. If President Joe Biden doesn’t take the anti-war protests more seriously, he is likely to end up on the wrong side of history and the November election as well.

From the Vietnam War and civil rights movements in the 1960s to ...Read more

How much is current college superstar and future WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark worth? The WNBA says she's worth (in the arrangement the player's union negotiated) $76,535 her first year and about $338,000 for the first four years of her career.

Is it unfair that's she's not being paid anything like her NBA equivalent, Victor Wembanyama, who will...Read more

The historic failure of medical research to acknowledge that women's bodies differ from men's has a new catchphrase: Ozempic babies.

According to recent reports, all of them anecdotal and many of them on TikTok, off-label use of diabetes drugs including Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro for cosmetic weight loss has, in some cases, apparently ...Read more

A disturbing trend is taking place on America’s most prestigious campuses: University presidents are wielding police as a violent threat against student protesters and the faculty who support them. This situation raises a critical question: Should the United States be a country where demonstrators can be arrested for protesting apartheid?

At ...Read more

I’ve been homeless. Twice.

I faced a dilemma in those situations that more than 650,000 Americans experience on any given day: “Where am I going to sleep tonight?”

The legal battles over criminalizing homelessness seem completely disconnected from that reality. It’s a feeling I will never forget.

In 2013, after my $2,500-a-month lease...Read more

Democrats insist they’re committed to promoting “affordable” housing. Yet virtually every policy they propose in that regard actually makes housing more expensive.

In March, the White House issued a news release explaining, “President (Joe) Biden believes housing costs are too high, and significant investments are needed to address the ...Read more

In March pro-Palestinian students at the University of South Florida began a hunger strike to protest Israel’s war against Hamas. They called on the university’s president to state that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. They also wanted USF to cut its financial ties to the Jewish state.

“We will starve ourselves,” a senior student ...Read more

Policing and prosecuting for profit contradicts reasonable notions of justice and fairness, yet it’s allowed in most U.S. states. Using a process known as civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement agencies seize private property that they claim was somehow involved in a crime. And they may keep it — even if the owner is never criminally ...Read more

The We the People competition has trained young Americans to know and engage in our democratic system for over 30 years.

It has long been recorded that Benjamin Franklin, when departing the Constitutional Convention in 1787, was asked “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

The American sage responded warily: “A ...Read more

Every day, 10,000 babies are born in the United States. These babies representing all races are born innocent. They do not know racism.

I was born in rural Louisiana and was oblivious to racism. As a sharecropper, I worked 13 years without a paycheck. We were taught God created us all equal. I moved to Chicago in 1965, and my relatives began to...Read more

There was once a president-elect who suspected the previous, one-term president — a man with an outsized ego, thin skin for criticism and a penchant for trying to restrict fundamental rights — was plotting to overturn the free and fair election and refuse to vacate the White House.

Alarmed, the incoming president sought an audience with the...Read more

Artificial intelligence is already affecting our lives in many positive ways, automating tasks, helping to diagnose medical issues and acting as a voice-controlled virtual assistant for many. Still, there is a very real danger of misuse and unintended consequences of the technology, as we saw recently in Maryland, with the filing of what is ...Read more

Republican-led states keep finding ways to challenge the authority of the federal government on anything that doesn’t line up with their conservative worldview.

This time the target is a new law that requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees.

That law, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, was a decade in the...Read more

As someone who remembers when Columbia University students took over Hamilton Hall 56 years ago, let me say that 2024 is not 1968.

Back then, our whole country was engaged in debate over the justice of a Vietnam War that involved tens of thousands of American troops. Today, students are setting up tent encampments to protest a war that is not ...Read more

There is no artificial intelligence without the fruits of human inquiry.

Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such information, drawn from across the internet and from various databases totaling, according to at least one estimate, somewhere around 300 billion words.

That’s a lot of intellectual property, much ...Read more