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Trump to America: Get busy begatting

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.” (Genesis 1:28) President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive - paying couples $5,000 to begat. The fertility rate in the U.S. has been declining for ...

Trumps second term might have been sunk by tariffs

Presidential second terms are rarely successful, and on the evidence of his first 100 days Donald Trump ’s won’t be different. The President needs a major reset if he wants to rescue his final years from the economic and foreign-policy shocks he has unleashed. There’s no denying his ...

ChatGPT is actually not your friend

I have been deep in conversation with ChatGPT, asking all kinds of questions. Are there direct flights between the U.S. and Queretaro, Mexico? Will Apple give me credit for a 2014 iMac? What color goes with teal? What was France’s GDP in 1998? My fascination with ChatGPT has become a ...

Trump’s plans for family policy

The animating beliefs of this administration range from dangerously wrong to head-spinningly crazy. Tariffs are in the first tranche, along with the myth that NATO has been ripping off the United States for decades, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans and that “He ...

Court warns of values slipping away

Late in the new Broadway show “Operation Mincemeat,” the sparklingly inventive musical comedy based on British Intelligence’s deception of Adolf Hitler about Allied war plans during World War II, the marvelous slapstick pauses momentarily. “If people like us just blindly follow ...

April is a revolution month

Greetings from the eye of the storm. Is the time right for a second American Revolution? The first broke out 250 Aprils ago in Lexington and Concord. Let’s conjure up Paul Revere’s midnight ride in this dark hour. Our ruler makes the English king, George III, look like a sweet prince. ...