“The days of school closures, consolidation and privatization have ended, officially, under the Johnson administration,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Monday. “And to anyone, billionaire or not, that believes that you can take us back to a model of torment and torture, you got another thing coming.”

Johnson was reacting to the official ...Read more

The more I think about Proposition 40, the billionaire tax that will go before California voters in November, the angrier I get.

I'm angry at President Donald Trump. His cruel slashing of Medicaid threatens the health of millions of Californians, may lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of medical jobs and is the stated reason behind ...Read more

Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist who’s leading in the polls to be the Democratic Party nominee for Wisconsin governor, is now best known nationally for a call for “canceling” Thanksgiving.

She did so in a 2020 social media post that went on to say, “If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating ...Read more

A new report from the non-profit Citizen Budget Commission reveals that New York lost over $10 billion in personal income tax revenue for fiscal year 2022. The problem is clear: high-income earners and business owners are fleeing. 

The Big Apple’s high taxes, oppressive regulations, and policymaker’s hostile rhetoric have ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has been widely characterized by the media as the Catholic Church’s landmark alarm bell about the perils of artificial intelligence. But it would be a mistake to reduce the encyclical to a warning about AI and its impact on humanity alone. More broadly, the pope frames the AI ...Read more

It reads like a science-fiction movie, except it’s completely real, and we’re living it.

One of the world’s most advanced AI systems just breached a secure digital testing environment designed to contain it, launched a sophisticated cyberattack against another company’s computer systems, and remained undetected for days.

It happened ...Read more

Federal regulators, responding to Energy Secretary Chris Wright's request, just ordered grid operators to connect big power users faster, so the country can feed the data centers that AI runs on.

The push came because the United States is racing China for the lead in AI, and that race runs on computing power. The push unfortunately ran ...Read more

The Strait of Hormuz isn’t the only Middle Eastern naval chokepoint under threat: In the Red Sea, vital shipping is being disrupted by an Iranian proxy, the Houthis of Yemen. Now Saudi Arabia, the nation most affected by the Houthis’ threats to commercial traffic, is forming a naval coalition to restore order in the waterway.

What will this...Read more

As the Democratic Socialists of America bash the Senate, calling for its abolition, many Republicans and conservatives are bashing the DSA, for daring to question James Madison’s constitutional design. Surprisingly, both are partly right.

Madison certainly planned for a Senate to be composed of the wisest and most nonpartisan men the United ...Read more

Throughout the Tea Party years and the Republican Party's descent into unprincipled populism under Donald Trump, Michigan Democrats masqueraded as the adults in the room. They promised stability and a platform that didn't involve blowing up the established political order.

But Democrats are normal no more.

Tuesday's nomination of the apparent ...Read more

This summer, Washington state’s pioneering long-term care insurance program is facing a crucial test. In July, eligible residents began receiving benefits for the first time, marking a new stage in the state’s yearslong effort to help people afford care as they age.

Lawmakers around the country should be watching closely. The coming years ...Read more

Last November, a patient of mine — 19 years old and established in our primary care clinic in Massachusetts — came in for her annual physical. She’d done everything we’d asked for her chronic obesity. She’d traded the bus for a mile-long walk to school, every day, both ways.

She and her grandparents, who do the family’s grocery ...Read more

Recently, Eva Amurri, the daughter of actor Susan Sarandon, shared in an Instagram video that as a mom in her 40s one thing she’d never do is let her daughter grow up too fast.

“I don’t want her to rush through her childhood,” Amurri said, ”to act older than her years, live up to cultural expectations or be parentified.” ...Read more

Anyone who has visited Chicago has heard locals loudly praise the city — with good reason. This summer alone, we’re flooded with visitors excited to see the new Obama Presidential Center, enjoy Taste of Chicago and Lollapalooza, or just visit the museums and hang out by the lake.

While it rarely makes the cut for Instagram posts, O’Hare ...Read more

All policy wonks worth their salt know there are a few ways to kill a government program. One is for Congress to abolish it. If the lawmakers aren't so inclined, a hostile administration can get its way by starving the program of resources or making it harder for people to sign up or stay enrolled.

That's been the Trump White House's approach ...Read more

Whatever you think of New York’s so-called pied-à-terre tax — a plan to plug a $500 million city budget hole with property taxes on those who own a valuable dwelling in the city but don’t make it their primary residence — there is no question that the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani bungled its rollout.

And, in so doing, they ...Read more

Ronald Reagan promoted his philosophy of “trust by verify” in negotiations with the Soviets. President Donald Trump would be wise to apply the same caution in the Middle East.

Last week, Trump announced that his Board of Peace had negotiated a deal with Hamas that includes members of the terror group agreeing to lay down their arms. If so, ...Read more

The last at bat for my mom, Helen Callaghan, in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was in 1949. She was a speedy center fielder playing for the Kenosha Comets, and sports writers of the ’40s called her the “Feminine Ted Williams.”

On Saturday, in the debut of the Women’s Pro Baseball League, I watched a new generation ...Read more

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s assurance to senators about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and President Donald Trump’s immunity with the Internal Revenue Service is nothing more than a hollow gesture.

With Blanche’s confirmation to permanently lead the Department of Justice in jeopardy, he provided written ...Read more