Perspective: China’s AI play is different from America’s
Early in the Cold War, even as the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a relentless nuclear arms race, they treated nuclear…
Free Press Opinion: Vance or Rubio in front for 2028 election?
For the first year of the second Trump presidency, Vice President JD Vance served primarily as the White House's designated tough guy. Rather than…
Free Press Opinion: The American creed is a culture
One month short of America's 250th birthday, it's clear we won't be getting an extravagant and unifying celebration of American greatness and patriotism. So maybe the best we can hope for is a healthy debate about the nature of American identity, which might lay a foundation for a more splendid celebration come 2076.
Free Press Opinion: When is it wrong to use AI?
Of all the reactions to Pope Leo XIV's manifesto on artificial intelligence, from its liberal humanist appreciators to its digital-consciousness-believing critics, one of the most notable is the disappointment of the AI skeptics who think the pope didn't go nearly far enough.
Opinion: Controversy in architecture; no, not that one
The controversial public building is ugly and intimidating, architectural vainglory battening on presidential ego, inappropriate to its setting, unmoored from memory and tradition.
Opinon: Unite or die only slim GOP hope vs. Trump
I'm not sure that an assembly of presidential candidates has ever given off stronger loser vibes, if I may use a word favored by the 45th president of the United States, than the Republicans who recently debated at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Opinion: Will Biden face a Democratic challenger?
Joe Biden's path to renomination by the Democratic Party, a journey reportedly likely to begin officially sometime this month, will represent a triumph of one seeming implausibility over another.
Opinion: Kevin McCarthy and the return of the pre-Trump GOP
Did you miss the Republican Party that existed before Donald Trump came along?
Opinion: How diversity undermined affirmative action
When the Supreme Court first ruled universities could consider race in their admissions process, in 1978's Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the nine justices wrote six opinions among them.
Opinion: The three blunders of Joe Biden
If the Democrats end up losing the House and the Senate, an outcome that looks more likely than it did a month ago, it will be nothing particularly shocking. The incumbent president's party almost always suffers losses in the midterms.
