Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the UN General Assembly was partly performance, but mostly profound. The performance part included a QR code on his lapel which delegates were invited to zoom in with their camera phones and see atrocities committed by Hamas that are too ...
The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let's savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in "specialty occupations." The visa's fans offer a mirror image, with ...
I have long become accustomed to what I call the "BTMF" reflex whenever a great, newsmaking calamity or outrage happens. That's short for "Blame the media first." As a long-tenured journalist, I try not to take it personally. Yet sometimes the complainers have a point, and we in the news ...
Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn't — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that "every American will soon receive their own MedBed card" that will grant them ...
There are few things the old me liked more than a meaty discussion about the American Founding. The history was interesting for its own sake but also essential guidance for the present and future. Or so I believed for decades. The other day, a podcast in my feed addressed these matters and ...
The autopen has been around in one form or another since Thomas Jefferson was president. According to shapell.org, "In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the president to sign a bill using the autopen." He was ...
