Even if you’ve never gone to an overnight summer camp, you can still conjure visions of these iconic American outdoor places, thanks to books like “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,” TV shows like “Salute Your Shorts,” and films like…
The absence of two key Senate Republicans has complicated the Trump administration’s ambitions to pass budget appropriations and increase defense spending, particularly as the war in Iran escalates and key midterm elections approach. On Sunday, Sen. Mitch McConnell broke his…
The U.S. announced a new round of strikes on Iran on Monday, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and, in a seeming policy reversal, will charge other ships for safe passage. All…
Why has a college degree become akin to an unaffordable luxury for millions of Americans? I am a scholar of the history of higher education. My data analysis of college tuition trends from 1840 to 2020 shows that college tuition…
We are scholars of human rights. Alongside the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a nonprofit that tracks how well more than 200 countries and territories are meeting the human rights commitments their governments have made, we annually update scores measuring whether…
The 41-page lawsuit Apple filed against OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets is a good read. Unless you’re OpenAI, that is. The suit alleges nothing short of a wide-scale corporate espionage campaign carried out by ex-Apple employees who joined OpenAI,…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman have renewed their billionaire brawl as both seek to sell investors on their own vision of the AI revolution. The longstanding feud between the OpenAI cofounders reignited over the weekend when the world’s richest man…
On Independence Day, as second-term Republican Dan Sullivan and his chief rival in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race Democrat Mary Peltola headlined parades, the other Dan Sullivan seeking the seat was happily on the sidelines of festivities in this small fishing community he long has…
The U.S.-Israel war on Iran transformed the Strait of Hormuz from a waterway where global shipping enjoyed free navigation to a virtual combat zone where safe passage depends on military might. Iran used missiles and drones to close off the…
A top European Union official on Monday called for limits to be placed on children using social media as a special EU panel looking into the challenge recommended forbidding access for those under 13 until tech companies can prove their platforms are…