The old professor in me thinks the best way to convey to you how utterly awful the so-called "one big beautiful bill" passed by the House last week actually is would be to give you this short 10-question exam. (Answers are in parentheses, but first try to answer without looking at them.) 1. ...
As the Senate takes up the "One Big Beautiful Bill" (Donald Trump's name for it) passed by the House last week, there's finally some discussion of the national debt. That's because the bill is estimated to add $3.8 trillion over the next decade to the current debt: $37 trillion, or more than ...
News broke recently that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer. The disease, which has now spread to his bones, is life-threatening and deeply serious. Let me say this clearly: Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted for him or not -- this kind of news should stop us all in our tracks. Because before anything else -- before politics, power or policy -- Biden is a man. A husband. A father. A grandfather. And like any man facing this kind of diagnosis, he is someone now staring down the hardest fight of his ...
She did not even know what habeas corpus is. It should come as no surprise, judging from her actions. At a hearing, she was asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat: Senator Hassan: "Secretary Noem, what is habeas corpus?" Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem: "Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their right to -- " Hassan: "No. Let me stop you, ma'am. Excuse me, that's incorrect." It's not just incorrect. It's completely backward. Habeas corpus is not the president's ...
While contemplating the horror of two young and soon to be engaged Israeli Embassy employees who were gunned down by a man shouting "free Palestine" and "I did it for Gaza," outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., last week, I recalled the opening line to a song from the old ...
Mark Zuckerberg is right that our nation is beset by an epidemic of loneliness. People of every age now too often find themselves isolated from family, with too few friends and little to keep them company but the screens in their hands, on their desks and on their walls. But to Meta’s chief executive, every problem in the world is a nail and more technology is the hammer. Even by Zuckerberg’s standards, his recent comments about AI and loneliness were striking for their deep misunderstanding of what humanity really needs, which is genuine care, intimacy and love from other human ...
