The macroeconomic numbers are good. America is near full employment. The stock market is doing well. Inflation is high, but down from where it was with former President Joe Biden. Americans do not care. They hate both parties. Republican operatives on the ground in state after state tell me ...
Conservatives expressed grave concern when director Greta Gerwig happily announced that her forthcoming movie "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" would star Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan — the lion that author C.S. Lewis clearly used as a Christ figure. This kind of gender confusion gives ...
The home of Dwight Eisenhower and Amelia Earhart is rarely part of the national conversation — but that could be about to change. Kansas has gone red in every presidential contest since 1968 and hasn't sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. In light of that history, it would be foolish ...
I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations. In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could ...
In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million. The deal was widely ridiculed. Critics called it "Seward's Folly," after the secretary of state and lead negotiator, William Seward. In hindsight, given the state's immense natural resources and ...
Nancy Guy Bismarck Margaret Fitzgerald Fargo Volunteers, AARP North Dakota Executive Committee For millions of people, Social Security is much more than a monthly check. It is the financial security earned through a lifetime of hard work. Most of us have worked since we were teens, paying in at every step in our work lives. We’ve earned our Social Security. At a time when the cost of everyday essentials like groceries, housing, utilities and health care continue to rise, our peers tell us that those payments matter more than ever. And they don’t just matter to current ...
