Last Friday's release of a few million more Epstein-related documents came with gruesome and disgusting revelations about the sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated on minors by the likes of the deceased Jeffrey Epstein and the people in his orbit.

The names in the document trove, which features real evidence and unverified information from tip ...Read more

The instinct to look away is one of the most enduring patterns in democratic backsliding. History rarely announces itself with a single rupture; it accumulates through a series of choices—some deliberate, many passive—that allow state power to harden against the people it is meant to serve.

As federal immigration enforcement escalates ...Read more

Midterms are rarely kind to the president’s party, and with balloting just nine months off, the storm clouds look particularly threatening for Republicans.

On Saturday, a Texas Democrat defeated his GOP opponent by 14 points in a special election for a state Senate seat. This might not usually be big news, but the balloting took place in a ...Read more

Outdated, albeit well-intentioned data privacy laws create the risk that many Americans will miss out on proven ways in which AI can improve their quality of life.

Thanks to advances in AI, we possess incredible opportunities to use our personal information to aid the development of new tools that can lead to better health care, education, and...Read more

Movements rarely collapse because the enemy is too strong. More often, they rot from within — through the loss of discipline, morale and political clarity. The civil rights leader James Forman warned us about this decades ago. We ignored him.

James Forman was a revolutionary organizer, strategist and movement builder who helped shape the ...Read more

The nomination of Kevin Warsh as next chair of the Federal Reserve is good news. He’s amply qualified for the role, having served as a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011. He has argued throughout for the central bank to narrow its focus to controlling inflation and to rely less on balance-sheet operations, positions for which there are strong ...Read more

The one thing that was clear about President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin M. Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, announced Friday, is that the investment community didn't really know what to make of it.

The dollar rallied, even though Warsh has been agitating for more rate cuts, which tend to undermine the dollar's value. Gold...Read more

In an outrageous expansion of its authority, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now authorizing its agents to arrest anyone they suspect of being undocumented, even if the officers don’t have a warrant and the person isn’t a flight risk.

The directive, contained in a memo obtained by the New York Times, reverses long-standing ICE policy...Read more

It’s not often that I agree with the National Rifle Association or with President Donald Trump. But last week I found myself agreeing with both at the same time:

After the shooting death of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Trump said, “You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that…Certainly, he shouldn’t have been carrying...Read more

At moments of protest and volatility, public trust depends on clarity: who is responsible, who is accountable and who answers to the people on the ground. That is why the decision to request federal assistance should rest solely with state and local officials, except in rare crises or in the narrow circumstance where federal property or ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Immigration hearings in recent years often sounded similar, said Scott Roehm, senior director of global justice and accountability at the St. Paul-based Center for Victims of Torture.

“You probably wouldn’t be surprised to hear an asylum-seeker explaining they were abducted at gunpoint by mass security forces, then dumped ...Read more

Newspapers report daily on the frantic efforts by elected officials to address America’s housing affordability crisis, including a recent story that President Donald Trump called Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to discuss the issue. Trump seems worried about how a lack of progress could be politically damaging. He should be.

A 2024 report by ...Read more

Less than three months ago we published "The Trillion Dollar War Machine," which chronicles and laments the enormous amount of money the U.S. was set to spend on “defense” this year – money that enriches special interests, but offers little real security to most Americans. Today, the federal government is preparing to double-down on this ...Read more

Society needs people to take risks. Entrepreneurs who bet on themselves create new jobs. Institutions that gamble with new processes find out best to integrate advances into modern life. Regulators who accept potential backlash by launching policy experiments give us a chance to devise laws that are based on evidence, not fear.

The need for ...Read more

Open a newspaper or scan an opinion section, and you’ll likely encounter a familiar storyline: American universities have become ideological factories, churning out graduates stamped with a single political worldview. Students are portrayed as disengaged, fragile, glued to screens and uninterested in real work or real relationships.

That ...Read more

Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet, has made another leap in its efforts to illuminate human biology: progress toward using AI to interpret the many still-mysterious chapters in the text of life.

DNA sequencing, once a gargantuan feat, is by now cheap and easy. Deciphering the billions of letters in that code, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — We relearned something from the killings of two law-abiding citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis: There’s a limit to how many government lies the public will tolerate.

When government officials arrogantly persist in blatantly lying, the public just might turn angrily against the prevaricators.

Or ...Read more

There we were, last Thursday, focusing on Team Trump’s tragic immigration protest killings and those other inhumanities committed in the ICEland of Minnesota.

We thought we were watching the decline and fall of President Donald Trump at his worst. But what we didn’t know (and couldn’t imagine in our wildest conjuring) was that Trump was ...Read more

If you could safely implant a chip in your brain to enhance your intelligence, would you?

Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful technologists want that future, including Elon Musk, who recently said he would ramp up production of his Neuralink brain chips this year as part of a noble effort to ensure humans can keep pace with superintelligen...Read more

With news of multimillion-dollar lawsuits arising from President Donald Trump administration’s military incursion to apprehend Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, America’s drug problem remains front and center. The White House demonstrated it believes a military campaign against alleged drug trafficking from Venezuela is central to ...Read more