It may come to your attention that we are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots all have been the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises.

So we should be thankful for Rodney Brooks, an Australian-born technologist who has made it one of his missions in life to ...Read more

Today is the first day for New York City public schools back from winter break, with a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and a new schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels.

And what is also new is that Mamdani turned heel on his prior wrongheaded opposition to mayoral control of schools, announcing his support for this crucial power in tandem with his ...Read more

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has accurately assessed that they can handle the work. That is hardly the case anymore.

Even though COVID-19 lockdowns no longer prevent students from ...Read more

An official with the Department of Homeland Security recently suggested that following or recording federal law enforcement officers “sure sounds like obstruction of justice.” The statement was given to Reason magazine in response to a direct question, was confirmed in writing and followed by a warning that DHS will prosecute such conduct �...Read more

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s removal from power following his capture in a U.S. military operation rests on a mix of long-standing criminal cases against him, nonrecognition of his presidency by many democratic countries and the U.S. president’s broad, and often controversial, war powers.

Maduro had been under U.S. indictment ...Read more

America’s incursion into Venezuela for the extraction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to the U.S. for trial was illegal under both international and U.S. law. Announcing that the U.S. intends to “run” Venezuela so as to benefit from its oil and mineral resources is also nakedly unlawful. The most basic building block of all ...Read more

Last week, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was on stage in front of his supporters, waving his hands and dancing, seemingly oblivious to the danger that awaited him. Monday, that same man was a criminal defendant incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York’s Brooklyn borough, having just been arraigned on drug trafficking...Read more

Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York courtroom Monday, two days after U.S. forces carried out a surprise raid in Venezuela, capturing the country’s president at a military base and hustling him in handcuffs and blindfolded to a U.S. aircraft carrier. “I am innocent,” he told the judge.

Maduro — who, with the help of his predecessor, ...Read more

I hope that my columns reflect evidence and argument—maybe even proof—rather than partisanship, but if you read a dozen of them, you could be forgiven if you get the impression that my political perspective reflects the left more than the right. Fair enough.

In fact, I’ve been accused of having a bad case of TDS—Trump Derangement ...Read more

This might be Republicans’ last big year to get things done for a while. President Donald Trump is in the second year of his second term — his last before reaching lame duck status. His party is unlikely to hold Congress after the midterms if history is any indication.

What do Republicans want? As 2026 begins, I’m not sure they know. ...Read more

Although the first quarter of the new century has seen four presidents, it is doubtless Donald Trump who will most fascinate future historians. And with the first year of his second term nearly in the books, our stocktaking of the moment must begin with what has been most mashed and mangled since Jan. 20: the rule of law.

It’s true that Trump...Read more

By invading Venezuela, President Donald Trump just lit America's eternal exploding cigar.

For over 175 years — ever since the United States conquered half of Mexico — nearly every president has messed with Latin America while telling the rest of the world to stay the hell out.

We have helped depose democratically elected leaders and ...Read more

I am a 56-year-old woman who loves romance fiction, so I fell for “Heated Rivalry.” My daughter introduced me to the streaming adaptation. She texted me about it with the confidence of someone who knew I would understand why it mattered. I raised my daughters to believe that sex can be a source of connection and pleasure, something to claim ...Read more

In one version of U.S. history, California is a place where slavery was prohibited from the founding, in the 1849 state constitution, and where that ban was reaffirmed by the state’s ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865. In another telling, it was a place that had ended the practice some 30 years earlier — when it was part of Mexico.

...Read more

Modern demagogues do not operate by inventing complete fantasies: They operate by weaponizing core, evident truths. Their most potent narratives begin with real wounds -- neglect, inequality, corruption, contempt, cultural anxiety -- and then twist those wounds into myths that serve only to concentrate power and disable collective action. These ...Read more

The academic money pit that has become New College of Florida received kid-glove treatment in The New York Times, but it’s because nobody checked the math. There’s a cost to swapping out curriculum that produced Fulbright scholars for beach volleyball scholarships, and The Times missed it.

It’s important to set the record straight on New ...Read more

Before Beyoncé married Jay-Z and began growing her family, she sang about dating a trifling, good-for-nothing type of brother who didn't know what being a man was about. He couldn't pay her bills. Not her telephone bill. Not even her automo'bill. This was back in 1999, while she was a member of Destiny's Child. Maybe the lyrics to the hit "...Read more

So much for Donald the Dove.

President Donald Trump mounted an illegal invasion of Venezuela, kidnapping president Nicolás Maduro and his wife and spiriting them out of the country.

The breathtaking use of military force against a sovereign state has no legal justification. It opens the door for anarchy in Venezuela and threatens to make the ...Read more

Pics or it didn’t happen, as they say, meaning if you don’t capture a moment in photos or video and then share it online, what’s the point?

We’ve written extensively on the growing societal obsession with phones and social media, specifically in regard to young people, pointing to both the short- and long-term harms this problem causes....Read more

President Donald Trump wasn’t joking when he welcomed guests to the live “Trump-Kennedy Center Honors” on Dec. 7, a comment that was cut in the televised version Dec. 23. Shortly after the original event, the president’s hand-picked board voted to rename the center. Guess who got top billing?

Signage was erected on the facade the day ...Read more