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Education system can be fixed

Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...

AI moral panic demands leadership

The midterm elections are right around the corner. The time-tested solution? Find a scapegoat, go negative, and blame the other side. This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence. Many Americans are falling for the anti-AI information operation. They ...

Not quite grateful for broken arm

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not hitting my head. At home that night, I couldn't even bend my left ...

Will AI bring about Doomsday?

In the satirical 1964 anti-war film "Dr. Strangelove," fears of a "Doomsday machine," an automated, unstoppable device programmed to trigger global nuclear annihilation if the Soviet Union is attacked, gripped U.S. leaders and the Soviet ambassador in the American "war room." Predictions of ...

CLARITY Act failed, Bitcoin didn’t

The Senate's rejection of the CLARITY Act was not simply another episode of Democrats opposing President Donald Trump or Republicans failing to maintain party unity. Nor was it a declaration that cryptocurrency has no future in the United States. The bill was overtaken by a more ...

States should make clean-energy lemonade

In 2026, Americans have been handed two lemons: a warming climate and an artificial intelligence data-center boom straining the nation's electricity and water systems. Maybe it's time to squeeze them together and make lemonade. First lemon: Temperatures are rising around the world. ...