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Audiobooks and AI: Why storytelling is better off human

I fell in love with audiobooks when my kids were young. We would stop at the library before a road trip and choose a few for our drive. I still love audiobooks. Many times it's a good audiobook that gets the chores done and the house clean. These days I use Audible or the library's Libby ...

Baby boom, baby bust and the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

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 ...

What you need to share about the ‘one big beautiful’ ugly horrible bill

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. ...

Politics can’t strip us of our humanity

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 ...

You’ve got to be taught to hate

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 off-Broadway ...

Habeas corpus (and the cabinet of clowns)

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, ...