Higher Ed, Research & Learning
The race that zoomed around Washington showed what Trump is good at: spectacular and kitschy fun of the most public and American sort. Perhaps he should run for mayor, writes Nicholas Clairmont.
After six months of off-and-on conflict with the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, another deadline for a deal has come and gone. As the President mulls his options, whatever step he takes next ...
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The Arizona Supreme Court effectively killed a ballot measure that would have brought significant oversight and an income cap to the state’s school voucher-like program in a ruling Tuesday. The battle...
Plus: James Fishback loses in Florida, and Flock cameras become the Right’s latest fault line.
The national debt of the United States just crossed $40 trillion. That number is so large that it risks becoming meaningless. But consider this: the federal government did not reach $30 trillion in de...
The regional theme park of my childhood is closing to make room for more AI. I went to say goodbye.
Democrats on this committee have put forward their ideas. Through our plans, Social Security can be secured indefinitely into the future without a single dime cut to a current or future retiree. […] T...
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As schools reopen amid a national surge in measles cases, California students will continue to follow the state’s existing vaccination requirements, despite President Donald Trump’s latest effort to c...
Sabrina Joy Stevens spent two decades building the progressive movement from the inside. She explains what finally made her walk away, and what the movement she helped build has become.
In a February 2025 blog post, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote that “systems that start to point to AGI are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in.” Altman then...
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Remember when Labor Day was the unofficial end of summer and schools started up again after that? Your kids probably don’t either. The 2026-27 school year started Wednesday in Frederick County, and th...
In her latest This Week in Canada newsletter, Rupa Subramanya writes that the only thing Canada and the U.S. agree on following the collapse of trade talks is that it’s the other country’s fault.
The Pentagon’s current acquisition and industrial base challenges are two-fold: It must simultaneously rapidly produce old legacy systems and then innovate at scale to specifically disrupt those syst...
From L.A. Times (Rebecca Ellis) Wednesday: As part of an insurance dispute over a fire-damaged Carson home, attorneys for State… The post AI Hallucinations in State Farm Insurance Outside Lawyers' Fil...
"Dozens of published circuit opinions show signs of AI writing. If courts are using AI, that's promising—and worth getting right."
An extremely interesting post (Mchangama, as many of you know, is a historian of free speech, among other things): [I]t's… The post Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech During ...