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MOORE: Who’s afraid of a trillionaire?

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history. My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate example of the rich getting richer and the poor getting crumbs. When I appeared on "Real ...

Guest opinion: A complaint letter to ACME Dream Senders

Dear ACME Dream Senders, I am sorry to have to write this letter of complaint. After a lifetime of mostly pleasant dreams, I now have to wonder if your entire creative team has been taken over by AI? I recognize that every human must suffer a certain allotment of stress dreams in their ...

PARKER: Freedom is not free

At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, "What's a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?" The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, ...

WSU guest opinion: The AI layoff is only the beginning

When John Muir first entered Glacier Bay in 1879, the first thing he noticed was the glacier itself. That is what anyone would notice: the mass, the force, the grinding ice. But Muir looked longer and saw what could easily have been missed — new ground, flowers, and a landscape the glacier ...

ZITO: Our civilian-military bond is cracked

On Tuesday, TMZ published a story with a dramatic all-caps headline, "PETE HEGSETH BLEW BILLION$ ON FRUIT BASKETS, LOBSTER," that was accompanied by a manufactured photo of the secretary of war surrounded by a bunch of plastic lobsters. The initial story was followed by several other "news" ...