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AI is Coming for Your Job. It's Time for some Ground Rules.

This year — 2025 — may go down as the year that lives in infamy. Not because the world narrowly avoided nuclear Armageddon with Iran (or Russia). But because 2025 is the year artificial intelligence (AI) came for a segment of the population that has historically benefited from innovation: the professional class. Never mind that AI’s own developers do not really understand how it works. That it…

Media gave President Trump’s recent election integrity address the Hunter Biden laptop treatment. Will it backfire? If missing context matters, yes.

More than 100 years of court rulings have held that territorial presence is enough to confer citizenship for U.S. born infants of noncitizen parents — with few exceptions. But is that really what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended? A closer look at the exclusions they laid out suggests not.

Trump on Trade: Big Win or Date with Disaster?

Mainstream media has tirelessly portrayed President Trump’s so-called trade war as little more than reckless — even downright hostile. But what if there is more to it than we generally appreciate? The President has stressed that fair and reciprocal trade sends a message that tariffs, as a rule, are unfair. He has been nothing if not consistent — in interviews as far back as the 1980s — that trade…

Polarizing narratives have been used to divide the nation over three successive election cycles. Is it too late to reclaim “normal”?

The narratives that divide Americans are not an accident. But they are a choice — at least for now.

Humanity is at a crossroads: Can democracy survive climate change? Can individual liberties coexist with climate policy? Must “degrowth communism” replace Capitalism? Or is there a thir…

Why climate change doomsayers have it wrong and what we can do about it.

Democrats’ Big Tent is stretched to the breaking point. How many elections are Democrats willing to risk before they begin to ask the tough questions?

If you do not quite grasp how the death, social media calls to “revolutionary roots of Black Liberation. Liberationists embrace a Abolition. A key component seeks to tie America’s &#822…

Black Lives Matter isn't a racial equality moment. It's a Big Philanthropy- backed effort to remap the American political system as we know it. What do they want? And will they succeed?

As CNN evacuated its newsroom and investigators launched a search for clues as to who may have mailed explosive devices to Hillary Clinton, George Soros, John Brennan and others, we should take tim…

American public figures — celebrities, politicians and cable news pundits — have engaged in a war of rhetoric and resistance ever since President Trump took office. Why it's critical to get a grip on public discourse — to tone down the rhetoric — with or without the president’s help.

Five years ago if someone had described an ongoing effort to unseat a sitting president — complete with salacious allegations about collusion with hostile foreign nationals — would any of us have b…

As Social Critic readers know, there has been no blow-by-blow effort to dissect news of the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation. The reason? Doing so relies too heavily on speculation. Until special…

Beyond the highly-charged partisan implications of Russia-Trump collusion, the IG Report supports the need for cybersecurity reform.

Just as Canada made a sweeping decision to fully legalize marijuana, former Mexican President Vicente Fox made headlines of his own after joining the board of “High Times”, a publicatio…

Journalism is in the midst of a slow-motion crisis. When I was in journalism school, students learned how to write using the “inverted pyramid” approach. The inverted pyramid is a style…

Violence is inevitably senseless, as it was again on Wednesday when a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland went on a shooting spree that took 17 lives and injured doze…

Donald J. Trump’s Election Day upset defied polls and media expectations. Once the mud-stained curtain of innuendo and accusation is pulled aside, it becomes evident that the Republican candi…

Balancing the Books: Uncle Sam Must Collect $56,621 Per Man, Woman and Child in the United States to Repay the $20T National Debt

The 2016 presidential election year in many ways reflects the way in which reality TV — never at a loss for drama, exhibitionism and outrage — has begun to influence political theater. Political r…

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