I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the future. It can be difficult to consider what might happen next week, let alone years or decades down the road. Some things are fairly predictable, while others will be completely different than we envision. Just look at any of Hollywood’s ...

Author and activist Nikole Hannah-Jones published an emotional essay in the New York Times Magazine last week titled "In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?" In the piece, Hannah-Jones writes about the consequences of having deliberately selected a school for her daughter, ...

Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability. Why? To address "inequity." "This is so misguided," says education researcher Michael Petrilli in my new video. "These equity people say, 'Oh, we're against gifted education.' At the same ...

The widening conflict involving the United States, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthis is no longer merely a Middle Eastern war. It is becoming a contest over the international order itself, with Russia and China operating increasingly in the shadows and avoiding direct confrontation while ...

The other night, I got up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom and heard the dishwasher making a terrible grinding noise. I couldn’t stop the cycle by pushing buttons, but it stopped when I opened the door. All good. We (meaning Dave) could deal with the problem in the morning. I plodded back BEEP ...

I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations. In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could ...