There is a palpable fear among American workers that AI is coming for their jobs. The answer to that fear, as I’ve argued, is to make job loss less scary by building a new unemployment program. An overhaul is long overdue, and it would help not only a vulnerable labor market but also workers whose fears are realized.

But would it be enough?

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If there’s a defining characteristic of President Donald Trump’s second term, it’s the tendency to treat big, irreversible decisions like impulse buys at a Ralphs checkout counter.

You can see this dynamic everywhere, from the Iran war to the bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House. The pattern is familiar by now: Trump moves fast,...Read more

It is commonly held wisdom that the American people unite behind their president in times of crisis. This “rally round the flag” effect describes boosts in presidential popularity that bridge the partisan divide. Public opinion on the war with Iran has so far defied this assumption, indicating the phenomenon may be more myth than reality.

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In September 1941, the death of a family member prompted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say how he should be remembered.

One of America’s greatest presidents wanted only a plain block of stone, about the size of his desk, to be placed on the front lawn of the National Archives Building, with the words “In memory of … ”

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California is beginning to address the crisis facing local journalism by distributing nearly $20 million this year to local news organizations. But the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development is about to fumble the opportunity by having the government pick winners and losers — with journalists being the losers.

Local news has...Read more

You know who you are.

When someone you like is censored, you get up in arms. But when the other side is muzzled, you sit on your hands.

It’s the oldest trick in the hypocrite’s playbook: free speech for me but not for thee. And we’ve seen a stark display of it this spring, in the battles over graduation speeches on college campuses.

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America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess. More and more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the power of their voters. But we don’t have to hold our noses any longer — there’s a fix in sight. And it doesn’t even require a constitutional amendment.

It’s time to shift to the system most of ...Read more

In the summer of 2024, I began working with former Kansas Gov. and Sen. Sam Brownback on a book—it was released last week—about the struggle for religious freedom in China.

I assumed it would be just another gig, nothing more.

Religion had never mattered much to me. I cared about sports, having co-written books with Phil Jackson, Scottie ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If anyone needs the axiom "Tell me who you're with, and I'll tell you who you are" whispered to them every morning as a reminder to do better, it's Spencer Pratt.

Can someone do that ASAP, por favor?

Instead of holding events around Los Angeles to convince skeptics that his mayoral campaign is for everyone, the former reality ...Read more

Those big data centers being built for artificial intelligence firms are in bad odor nationwide.

Seven in 10 Americans oppose projects in their local communities, according to a recent Gallup poll. More than a dozen, valued at some $64 billion, have been blocked or delayed by local opposition in recent years.

But what happens when the people ...Read more

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was caused by a combination of design flaws of the Soviet RBMK reactor and human error. The explosion and subsequent graphite fire released a plume of ...Read more

At a moment when many schools increasingly blur the line between education and activism, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is attempting something unfashionable: protecting classrooms as places of open inquiry rather than ideological instruction.

The private pre-K-through-12th-grade school in Hyde Park, which serves about 2,000 ...Read more

In February, three months after his administration facilitated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that helped break two years of full-scale war in Gaza, President Donald Trump strode onto the stage in Washington with pep in his step. Optimistic about the future and confident in his own negotiating abilities, he addressed the so-called Board of...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Democrats’ mantra this election year — especially among wannabe governors — is that the richest Californians should “pay their fair share.” But by any objective measurement, they already do.

I’m referring to state taxes, not federal. It’s a valid argument that the most prosperous Americans should kick ...Read more

A controversial plan in Utah to build a remote “homeless campus” is being hailed in some quarters as a bold new approach to the nation’s soaring homeless population.

The plan, developed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness (tellingly titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets”), ...Read more

From the White House to Harvard to Buckingham Palace, 2026 has become a masterclass in how men should not behave. Donald Trump tweeted in expletives on a religious holiday, threatening to decimate “a whole civilization.” Larry Summers—one of the world's most powerful academics—resigned in disgrace from Harvard. Before that, Prince Andrew...Read more

Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins who recently resigned as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Makary’s tenure at the FDA was marked by ...Read more

Years ago, I volunteered teaching financial literacy at a women’s homeless shelter. I may have a doctorate in economics, but I was pretty useless. Being poor in America requires making many complex financial decisions involving details of government benefits that I don’t know much about.

Still, I like to think I was of some use when it ...Read more

In today’s world of polarization and gridlock, when U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker agree that government is a big part of the housing affordability problem facing Americans, it is time to take note. It is also time to act.

In March, the U.S. Senate passed a ...Read more

Eddie Martinez can't stand Donald Trump. So when Eric Swalwell entered the race for California governor, Martinez had his candidate.

"I liked the way he took Trump on, the impeachment thing in Congress," Martinez said of the former Bay Area congressman, a Trump nemesis who served as one of the House prosecutors in 2021 when Democrats held the ...Read more