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Opinion

Political parties on perilous ground

Columns

As Donald Trump's Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what looks to some like prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens, one is tempted to ask, ...

Silent attacks on personal freedom

Columns

During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into ...

Terror in Zohran Mamdani’s New York

Columns

It's hard to get a more perfect metaphor for our times than a leftist braying on his bullhorn at a protest about how welcoming New York City is, then having a jihadist throw a bomb directly over his back. That's what happened to progressive influencer Walter Masterson last weekend when he ...

I asked AI!

Letters To The Editor

AI is at an inflection point where it can be used for good or evil. Investment and development of AI has grown exponentially in American and around the World, a technological arms race with no guardrails. We broke the programming paradigm, we taught AI to learn, and one day in the near future ...

The reading wars

Columns

"My child can't read!" That's become a common complaint from parents. Why? It might be because kids are distracted by social media and video games. But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political. "Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a reading ...

Iran war has no defined goal, no end in sight

Editorial

There will be no quick or easy wins – even on U.S. and Israeli terms. They have celebrated assassinating Iran’s supreme leader; their offensive has also killed more than 1,000 civilians so far, including scores of children, according to a U.S.-based rights group. As Iran retaliates, hoping ...