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AI moral panic demands leadership, not pandering

The midterm elections are right around the corner, and both parties are about as popular as a Monday-morning visit to the DMV. The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. Many Americans ...

Americans are right: Inflation not just Fed’s problem

Inflation hasn't gone away — it's going up. With the midterm elections seven weeks off, that's a problem for the president and Congress. Voters hate inflation. They don't much like the cure either, and the cure has two parts. The Federal Reserve raising interest rates, like it just did, is ...

Trump has a ‘get out of jail card’ thanks to the Supreme Court

To say that I have seen a lot in my many years in and around politics would be an understatement. I even taught the subject at leading U.S. universities like the University of Virginia, Hampton University and Georgetown University for more than a decade. I remember going to my first major ...

The lynching epidemic that wasn’t

Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say, but sometimes they are just paranoid. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of the Squad, organized 59 fellow Democrats to co-sign a letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened. The document ...

More threats to the freedom of speech

The freedom of speech and of the press is not a gift bestowed by a president, Congress or a federal agency. It is a natural right of all persons. The First Amendment does not create that right; it prohibits the government from infringing upon it. The ability to think, speak, write, criticize, ...

How 9/11 almost killed me and changed America forever

PARIS — A word about Sept. 11, 2001 — 25 years later. And the day that launched my career. My first ever column was written about 9/11 and the heroes who emerged from its ashes. It was also the place where I thought I was literally going to die, just a few years later, as a result of the ...