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What voters see in the parties

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...

American right-wingers are misreading France’s ‘high school’ riots

PARIS — Every time I start thinking that maybe I could permanently retire my gas mask from the early 2020s Yellow Vest riots here in France — the one with the handy hole for a beverage straw — it's time to drag it out again. This time, it's because French teenagers are burning down their ...

Trump is Picasso of corruption

Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution ...

Is Halloween a time for Frankenstein? Ask AI

The "Frankenstein" movie is one of my favorites. The book was written in 1810. The author could be credited with either having a great imagination or for being a genius visionary. Could AI be the 21st-Century version of "Frankenstein?" The traditional story starts with Victor Frankenstein, a ...

Senators should answer to voters, not factions

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said something out loud this weekend that many in Washington have long understood: Sen. Chuck Schumer, he argued, lives in fear of the far-left wing of his party. Thune pointed to Democrats blocking debate on military funding and a defense authorization bill, ...

The system worked in the Cornell 7 case

We've heard it from politicians, celebrities and influencers — the system failed the accuser in the Cornell 7 case. This near-universal view is advanced with great certainty and a sense of outraged righteousness, but mistaken nonetheless. Based on the information available to them at the ...