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Beware the flamboyant candidates with no experience

Four New Yorkers have been killed by Legionella bacteria in the last week, tragedies that were preventable if the city had performed its core, lifesaving duty to monitor and inspect air conditioning cooling towers. But New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on creating a socialist ...

GOP has seen the John James movie before

Michigan Republicans face a simple question in the Aug. 4 primary.Do they want to nominate a candidate for governor who gives them the best chance of winning in November? Or do they want to replay a political script that has already produced the same ending? If the answer is the latter, then ...

My visit to the data center

Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else ever written, invented or retrievable online. The cloud is synonymous with "data center." Many people don't realize that without these massive data centers -- that have somehow been demonized by everyone across the political spectrum from ...

What Americans can learn from World Cup fans

The World Cup showed why you shouldn't be ashamed of America's heroes and heritage. While only Argentina and Spain made Sunday's World Cup final, citizens of many countries enthusiastically cheered on their teams. Norwegian fans became an internet phenomenon for their "Viking Row" cheer. ...

Muhammad Ali knew his worth. We can still grow from that lesson

The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park. Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said. A new aptly named Butterfly and Bee Pollinator ...

The new normal: Abnormal

There's poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids' summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. "How high can it get?" one of the boys asked, and I admitted I didn't know. We had gone through a stretch of bad air a few years earlier -- also due to invading smoke from Canadian wildfires -- and I remembered feeling worried back then, seeing numbers in the 180s. The air quality index for the town today showed 244. ...