The day after the state's Senate primary, I was at a gym in Michigan when I overheard a brief exchange about the results of the close race.

The small group of voters were all elderly and white. Most of them expressed disappointment that Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens lost. Most of them questioned victor Abdul El-Sayed's ability to win in ...Read more

The Iran war has provided at least two clear economic lessons. It has exposed the steep costs of being reliant on fossil fuels, highlighting the need for countries to diversify their homegrown energy sources, including solar and wind power. And it has shown what U.S. commerce could look like freed from the Jones Act, one of the most ...Read more

A few years ago, I interviewed a Black teen as part of a study on the health of Gen Z. What this ninth-grader from an inner-city community was most passionate about surprised me.

“In eighth grade, lunch used to be something tasty; I could eat it,” she told me. “Here we go now: 65% reduced fat. Barely any seasoning. I’m like, ‘What is ...Read more

Back in February, hours after the Supreme Court overturned most of President Donald Trump's tariffs, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joshed about whether consumers would get a piece of the refunds when the government refunded the illegal duties.

Responding to a question about that at an economics conference, Bessent stated — with "a ...Read more

The narrower than expected victory by the far left Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, could backfire on the party in November.

El-Sayed barely staved off the establishment Democrat by less than one percentage point — just 15,000 votes — despite polls which showed him leading by double digits.

The polls, it turns out,...Read more

As of this week, with a green light from the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority, President Donald Trump is free to mount his long-promised mass deportation campaign in earnest. His Homeland Security Department notified employers last week that about 350,000 Haitian immigrants no longer are protected, triggering mass layoffs. His blood-...Read more

A week ago, Emerson College released a poll of likely Democratic primary voters in Michigan that had progressive firebrand Abdul El-Sayed leading U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens by 15 percentage points in the race for U.S. Senate.

Emerson was just one of many polling outfits that forecast a likely blowout in the primary, but it was the one with the ...Read more

“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