In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership stakes in the biggest AI companies. Both parties see immediate dollar signs. Neither is thinking longer-term. Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.

It’s not surprising that Vermont’s socialist senator wants to ...Read more

Not long ago, a student at my school forgot to submit a homework assignment. Before the school day even began, my colleague received an email from the parent — to ask if they could upload the assignment on the student’s behalf. The student was 17 years old.

We are in the midst of a parenting and educational crisis. Students are increasingly...Read more

For years, Silicon Valley executives warned artificial intelligence would transform society, replace jobs and perhaps pose existential risks. They built products grounded in what should be considered the largest copyright infringement of human history. They fired their own coders who helped build their AI while warning more firings were to come ...Read more

While we’re waiting around for cold fusion, space mirrors, matrioshka brains or whatever other complicated world-savers the tech wizards are cooking up these days to address soaring energy demand, a simple, effective solution is already available. It would create trillions of dollars in economic value and millions of jobs while also ...Read more

In 1983, while on a flight to South Dakota, a 29-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reported to have developed profuse sweating, pallor, and a weak pulse. Authorities searched his luggage and discovered two-tenths of a gram of heroin.

He pled guilty to a felony charge, and the judge ordered him to two years of probation instead of a possible ...Read more

Early this year, New Jersey became the sixth state to enact a law that lets courts consider past history of abuse as a mitigating factor in sentencing for survivors of domestic violence.

Similar laws have passed in New York, Illinois, California, Oklahoma and Georgia over the past seven years. A bill is pending in Massachusetts, and the ...Read more

Thirty years ago this fall, a Republican politician cried electoral fraud after losing a close race.

Orange County Rep. Bob Dornan couldn't accept the most logical explanations for why Loretta Sanchez beat him in a historic upset: that voters had tired of his polarizing politics. That his Latino-majority district wanted one of their own to ...Read more

From my desk in London, I’ve watched Los Angeles with a jolt of recognition. As dangerous heat settles over the city, it’s opening more than a hundred cooling centers and running air-conditioned buses to reach people with nowhere cool to go. It’s a life-saving response to a growing problem. It’s also a quiet admission: For many Angelenos...Read more

Services for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham will take place this month in Washington, D.C., and his home state of South Carolina. In the meantime, Congress could honor his legacy by passing the bipartisan Russian sanctions bill he spent his last months working to advance.

Sen. Graham died this month of a sudden cardiac event. He had served in the...Read more

A poet, a nurse, a construction worker and a food delivery driver. The four people killed in 2026 by federal immigration agents were regular folks trying to live their lives in peace before they were crushed by the unchecked power of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The brief respite between the killings of Renee Good and ...Read more

When President Donald Trump asked Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State to “find 11,780 votes” in 2020 to keep him in power, Brad Raffensperger said no.

When Trump asked Texas Republicans to create new congressional districts to keep Congress in his power, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could not say yes fast enough. Neither could Gov. Ron ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In her fight against an aggressive form of cancer, Santa Clarita Valley resident Robin Clough is winning, for now.

But in her fight for the right to have telemedicine followups with the out-of-state doctor who helped save her life, she is losing. And legislation that would have eased the way for her and other California patients...Read more

Beginning next week, Midwesterners driving to Canada finally should have an alternative to the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, notorious for its delays, poor maintenance and costly tolls. Behold the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, replete with six traffic lanes, 16 toll lanes and 60 inspection bays and offering a direct connection ...Read more

It pains me to say that most of us are missing the point when it comes to President Donald Trump's rambling election fraud speech. Which is exactly what he wants.

Within minutes of its airing Thursday night, the internet and pundits were abuzz debating whether voting machines were secure and whether the federal government has a right, or even a...Read more

When Victor Marx was 3 years old, he was forced into a voodoo ritual involving a beheaded cat. At age 7, he killed a man.

Or so Marx says.

But he was not just a precocious child.

As an adult running a "high-risk" Christian ministry, Marx says he rescued 45,000 women and children from captivity and abuse. As a civilian, he supposedly called in...Read more

Thursday night, Donald Trump launched into a primetime TV diatribe rehashing his obsession with the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that forthcoming elections must be made more “secure” in ways that ultimately keep eligible people from voting in a way that benefits him. This time around, he pointed to declassified ...Read more

During a recent visit to a Navy ship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly became angry after seeing sailors with facial hair. The Navy requires sailors to be clean-shaven unless they’ve been given a medical waiver. America is at war. The ship and its crew were operating amid heightened tensions. Hegseth’s attention was on beards.

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Exploiting racism has been a profitable strategy in Hollywood since the dawn of filmmaking: 111 years ago, D.W. Griffith’s film “The Birth of a Nation” was incredibly popular and influential, while also being so racist that it was considered controversial even in its own day.

The industry saw immediately just how lucrative fear could be. ...Read more

The big forces bearing down on state economies in 2026 — trade uncertainty, stubborn inflation, swelling national debt, rippling AI disruptions — mostly emanate from Washington and boardrooms, not state capitols. No governor sets tariff schedules. None votes on the federal budget, steers interest rates or decides how tech reshuffles local ...Read more

Who should have more power — the people of the states or the corporations that are authorized by them? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former, not the latter. Both states are advancing laws to put power back in the hands of people and get corporations out of the business of influencing elections by ...Read more