Since President Donald Trump’s return to power, more than 60 people have died at the hands of or in the custody of immigration authorities, most recently two Latino immigrants in one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Many Latinos have come to feel that their brown skin makes them targets, and...Read more

Why not just build them in space?

As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and storing data aboard satellites in low-Earth orbit, using large solar arrays for power. It’s a crazy idea, ...Read more

When I was in fourth grade, everyone in my class had grand ideas about what they wanted to be when they grew up: a professional basketball player, a firefighter, a professor (I grew up in a college town), a farmer (that was also in the country). I can’t say there was anyone who wanted to be a retirement economist; that came later.

I recently ...Read more

Recent Senate hearings for Todd Blanche, the president’s nominee for attorney general, didn’t change what has become obvious over the past year he has spent in a senior leadership role at the Department of Justice: He’s unfit for the top job.

Senators should make clear to the White House that they won’t consent to his appointment, ...Read more

“I believe that our teachers should be judged based on actual observations and professional judgment, not by AI software,” Illinois state Sen. Christopher Belt of Swansea said of Senate Bill 2909, passed July 10, prohibiting the use of AI in teacher evaluations. “Our educators deserve a transparent and fair evaluation process that ...Read more

Say what you want about Tuskegee University’s new ban on hair bonnets, bedroom slippers, and do-rags in classrooms and the dining hall. But the historically Black college’s iconic first president, Booker T. Washington, would be all for it.

Born into slavery and educated at what is now Hampton University, Washington was nothing if not ...Read more

A few years ago, when viral videos of marauding packs of smash-and-grab thieves and open drug markets in San Francisco seemed to be everywhere, a group of tough-on-crime conservatives mashed the two issues together and created Proposition 36 — a set of new laws that supposedly would combine addiction treatment with punishment for those who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Javier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before.

It was June 2025, and they were bragging about the raids in the Los Angeles area that swept up hundreds of immigrants — and a few U.S. citizens, like Ramirez. The unfamiliar word ...Read more

This week the Michigan Chronicle, the oldest Black newspaper in the state, endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens for the U.S. Senate ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary. I was struck by two things about the 1,200-word endorsement editorial.

First, Stevens is a highly accomplished elected official who would make a fine senator. In full disclosure, I'm ...Read more

It’s hardly been lost on America’s political class that even as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani leads a resurgent local and national left, the famously progressive city of San Francisco, under Mayor Daniel Lurie, appears to be moving decisively in the other direction.

Yet despite their vast ideological differences, Mamdani and Lurie ...Read more

After Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" was released in theaters, Elon Musk declared he would use Grok to create a more “historically accurate” version of the ancient epic poem.

The uproar over the film’s supposedly woke casting has been loud and sustained, but the people most upset have ignored a pretty significant detail: "The ...Read more

Who doesn’t love a good wish list? Come dream with us right here.

First step, we abolish capitalism. Without that most ultimate of evils? No more bills. No more debt. We’re all carefree now.

That’s the basic premise of the Democratic Socialists of America’s vision. If you haven’t looked at the platform lately, we offer you the ...Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025, I knew my life would become more complicated.

I am among the estimated 14 million Americans under age 65 who are considered immunocompromised; an additional 58 million over age 65 have immune systems that are naturally ...Read more

I recently joined the board of my Manhattan co-op, and I love it. One of my duties is reviewing applications for apartments, which — as both a prospective neighbor and a retirement economist — has been a revelation.

It turns out, based on not only my limited sample but also more rigorous and representative surveys, a surprising number of ...Read more

Much like the rest of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, the latest outbreak of hostilities has produced nothing but death, destruction, and disorder. The current flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz makes the Schuylkill Expressway look fast, Tehran retains its capacity to terrorize its neighbors with cheap drones, and more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The defendant was in an undisclosed jail.

The judge was in Department 213 of the Hollywood courthouse, where he could see the defendant on a video feed.

"All right, listen," said Judge Ronald Kaye, who runs one of four mental health courts in the building. "So a couple of weeks ago, I made this ruling to get you out of the jail...Read more

It’s hard to hate on Canada. It’s like cursing a cotton ball, or raging about tapioca.

The friendliest of neighbors, the country has fought alongside the U.S. in conflicts going back to World War I, purchased many trillions of dollars worth of American goods and blessed this country with, among other gifts, ice hockey, Drake, Joni Mitchell ...Read more

For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, "The Apprentice" and then "The Celebrity Apprentice." The shows stopped, but Trump as president is still creating his own reality.

When so many Americans say they've tuned him out — like a bad TV episode — the metaphor is an apt one. ...Read more

There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

A real-life example of this stratagem unfolded Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., convened a committee hearing aimed at trapping Dr. Anthony Fauci into...Read more