The calendar for the 2028 primaries that Democrats tentatively approved last week flips the racial dynamics of their old presidential nominating process — and maps a path to an epic confrontation between progressives and centrists.

From 1972 through 2020, Democrats empowered Iowa and New Hampshire — two small, preponderantly White and ...Read more

Should the price of your groceries depend on what a retailer knows about your shopping habits or your neighborhood? How would you feel if the person behind you was charged less for the same tank of gas?

That’s the reality dynamic pricing threatens to create. Dynamic pricing, often called surveillance or algorithmic pricing, allows ...Read more

Summer is the season of beaches, lakes, bays and family vacations. We head to the shore to swim, kayak, paddleboard and enjoy the beauty of the water. But while we’re busy making memories, it’s worth remembering one simple fact: When we’re in the water, we’re visitors in someone else’s home.

Beneath the surface lives an astonishing ...Read more

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice withdrew subpoenas that would have required reporters from the New York Times to turn over phone records and testify in court about their sources on security concerns related to President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One. The move came during a hearing in which a federal judge sharply criticized the ...Read more

OPEC looks like it might be coming undone. Major members have threatened to leave, and one already has. This could eventually mean more global oil supplies, which will mean lower gasoline prices here at home.

OPEC started in the 1960s explicitly to keep oil prices high by cartelizing production. Its members intentionally pump less oil to create...Read more

Price changes naturally occur in a competitive, free-market economy, as in the United States. Prices are the mechanism for allocating scarce resources, and they change constantly to reflect shifts in supply and demand.

The term “dynamic pricing,” as used in today’s sophisticated world, refers to the automatic, continuous adjustment of ...Read more

Temporary Protected Status has expired for more than 300,000 Haitians and Syrians, leaving thousands in New York and around the country vulnerable and unmoored after sometimes decades here, all to please Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry.

We know what isn’t going to happen: these people are not going to just up and ...Read more

For more than a dozen years, Minnesota has put public money into a promise: that if we ask farmers politely and offer them a modest financial incentive, they’ll strengthen conservation efforts to better protect Minnesota’s lakes and rivers from agricultural pollution.

So far, the state has spent $32 million on that promise through the ...Read more

Those of us of a certain age remember the grainy security videos on Sept. 11, 2001, when bored and inattentive private screeners let murderers and hijackers through checkpoints. That led Congress to create the federal Transportation Security Administration with widespread support from Americans who never wanted to see that happen again.

But ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Every election produces a campaign strategist whose victory bestows upon them, for at least a little while, the unofficial title of reigning political genius.

James Carville, Karl Rove, David Axelrod and Stephen K. Bannon have all worn the crown.

For many years, and many election cycles, California's reigning political ...Read more

It seemed like Julie Felss Masino had saved her job as chief executive officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.

After a logo change ensnared the restaurant chain in the culture wars, Masino had the company back on track. The stock has more than doubled year-to-date, making Cracker Barrel the S&P Composite 1500 Restaurants Index’s ...Read more

Since the Supreme Court struck down its “Liberation Day” tariffs earlier this year, the White House has been turning to other ways of getting trade policy all wrong.

Its first idea was a 150-day tariff of 10% applied to almost all imports. When that measure expired last week, officials were ready with yet another scheme. This one may prove...Read more

A few days ago, the Trump administration issued a 123-page report heralding a "new golden age" for U.S. science.

The key, said the report, published in the name of Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was to ensure that the approval of federal research grants "rests purely on merit, not the ...Read more

For the few enthusiasts of the revolution, July 26 meant celebrating once more the attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953 to try to overthrow Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship. The assault failed, but it catapulted Fidel Castro into being the leader of the 26th of July Movement and the Cuban Revolution. On Jan. 1, 1959, Batista fled the island ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Last week, news broke that an artificial intelligence thingamajig broke free from the constraints of its maker, OpenAI, and committed what could be considered a string of white-collar felonies if it were human.

Because the AI thingamajig is in fact not human, the incident raised a big kerfuffle but is largely being ...Read more

In June, Elon University launched its first AI Play camp. In one activity, teams of middle school students played Tic-Tac-Toe, not as a child might, but rather, like a machine.

Tasked with writing and then following a set of fixed instructions, the students play the game as an AI agent would. That experience of following instructions and ...Read more

Pennsylvanians were well acquainted with John Fetterman’s idiosyncrasies by the time he was elected to the U.S. Senate four years ago. No one had a right, for example, to expect him to report for Capitol Hill duty with a clean shave and a pressed suit.

His supporters do deserve to be dismayed, however, at their increasingly right-leaning ...Read more

Along with ongoing coverage of the latest bombings and missile and drone attacks in Iran and the oil-rich Gulf states, extreme weather events are also providing lead segments on evening news programs this summer. What you don’t see in much of the TV coverage, at least not since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term as ...Read more

Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the world’s first practical visible-light LED in Syracuse, New York, in 1962. The son of an Illinois coal miner, he earned three degrees at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and returned there as a professor. His invention now lights the world, and it created a global market worth more than $100 billion. ...Read more

When most people think of dictatorships or autocracies, they usually point to countries like North Korea, Iran, Russia and China. Yet there is a nation just as repressive as those on this list, and it just so happens to reside in America’s own hemisphere.

Nicaragua, whose politics have been upended by former Sandinista fighter-turned-...Read more