Since President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination in July 2021, Haiti has seen a total breakdown in security and political systems.
Haiti’s security services are no match for...
The first round of the NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament started Thursday. But it won’t be the only college basketball competition worth watching this year. Two weeks ag...
The same day in 2007 that founder Steve Jobs of Apple Computer presented the company’s fancy new mobile telephone, the iPhone, he dropped the word “computer” from the cor...
The artificial intelligence wave is here. Thanks to the arrival of “large language models” like ChatGPT and other generative AI tools almost a year and a half ago, AI is ...
As Haiti continues its descent into chaos, the Dominican Republic continues to prosper. The two countries share the island of Hispaniola and a lot of history, and yet the...
Last summer, the film “Oppenheimer” swept the box office and helped reignite public discourse about nuclear weapons and the ever-present threat of their use. It’s perhap...
Over the past three years, the surge of unauthorized immigrants crossing the southern border has overwhelmed local communities, strained the resources of big cities and b...
The United States has recently recorded 58 cases of measles in 17 states, including Virginia. That should be a wake-up call for parents and health officials across the co...
If Helen of Troy’s face launched a thousand ships, Kate Middleton’s face, fingers and arms launched a thousand analyses of the perils of technology. And most of them miss...
It wasn’t long ago when French President Emmanuel Macron fancied himself as Europe’s Vladimir Putin whisperer — somebody who could call up the Russian authoritarian, have...
Deepfakes of celebrities and misinformation about public figures might not be new in 2024, but they are more common and many people seem to grow ever more resigned that t...
The U.S. federal budget seems out of control. Funding spats and debt-ceiling standoffs routinely threaten to force defaults and shutdowns. America's once-unassailable cre...
Pennsylvania's new sentencing guidelines went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. They mark the eighth iteration since the state first introduced such guidelines in 1982 and are...
In a political stampede Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would force the social media app TikTok to be divested from China-based owner ByteDance,...
here is little debate that there is a deadly and worsening shortage in primary care, and that primary care is a cost-effective and evidence-based model of health care th...
As a piece of political theater, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address was an energetic success. He effectively answered questions about his age, delivering a ...
The NCAA men’s basketball selection committee is working diligently to assemble and seed the teams that will participate in March Madness and be announced on Selection Su...
Here’s how many Americans picture the average student borrower:
His name is Brad. He matriculates at a university that charges tuition and fees far beyond his means; he m...
Economists spend a lot of time talking about jobs. Work is not only how people support themselves financially, it can also be the way in which they contribute to society,...
All the fearmongering in Washington over the $1.5 trillion federal budget deficit hides a truth few politicians would admit — that hefty headline number you hear so much ...
It is an article of faith among those who do not believe Donald Trump lost in 2020 that mailing ballots to voters increases illegal voting — often called voter fraud.
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The name Einstein has long been synonymous with genius, but it goes back to a man and his equation, E = mc². In his lifetime, Albert Einstein was the world’s most famous ...
For the pious, fasting mortifies the flesh to fortify the soul. For those who profess a secular faith, however, fasting has come to be associated with wellness.
From lots...
Attending funerals generally is an act of compassion. On Friday in Moscow, attending the funeral of Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian dissident widely assumed by internatio...
Could a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Virginia and Tennessee further erode, or even end, the NCAA’s regulatory role in college athletics? If so, it would be a...
Two years ago, America saw its youngest voters turn out for the midterm elections at rates not seen since 2018, when there was a historic high.
Nearly 25% of Gen Z voters...
After the Five Guys franchise went viral the other day over a $12 burger, the joke making its way around the internet was that customers would have to start going to Four...
A friend of mine who lives in Cleveland recently told me a story that calls to mind a time before sports were fundamentally altered by sky-high salaries, exorbitant ticke...
You probably didn’t get up really early on Feb. 10 to watch the livestream from Ireland of John Bruton’s funeral. You may not even know about Bruton, who served as Irelan...
Two years after Vladimir Putin sought to wipe it off the European map, Ukraine still stands. But its future remains in doubt.
The resistance of House Republicans has stal...
