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On March 1st 2026 Iranian drones struck Amazon AWS data centers in UAE and Bahrain. Banking applications went dark, payments failed across the world and Amazon shifted its ongoing workload to other regions of the world to divert traffic away from the Middle East. The Market had reached a verdict that the architects of the […]

Time comes for all of us. No amount of wealth, status, or scientific ambition changes that. Yet a growing movement in medicine wants to classify aging itself as a disease — and eventually cure it. It’s an enticing idea. But it’s the wrong one. Aging isn’t abnormal. It’s woven into our DNA, built into the […]

This June, millions of graduating high school seniors across the country may worry about what they will wear or about not tripping as they walk across the stage, or, if they have a name like mine, worry that someone may mispronounce it. But after the applause and the tossing of caps, thousands of high school […]

For years, parents, educators, researchers, and advocates have been sounding the same alarm: too many children were being denied the opportunity to become proficient readers because schools refused to fully embrace what science already knew. Today, the nation is finally beginning to catch up. Recent reporting highlights how North Carolina’s colleges of education are revising […]

So there are some huge pictures of Presidents Trump and Teddy Roosevelt hanging from the Department of Labor building in Washington, DC, right now – recognizing the two presidents who perhaps stood up for the American worker better than any other. Both Trump and Roosevelt came to power after enormous economic transformations – the information […]

The Internet and social media pulled us all together so that our pain could lock us up in our own personal silos to protect us from each other. There is a cruel irony to the development of the Internet and social media. First touted as a means to unify people the world over and share […]

If you think that the biggest news in the summer of 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, think again. The truest sign of the zeitgeist is not the commemoration of the founding documents of these United States. It is the return to the global cultural stage of that inimitable showman, that […]

The great American wit H.L. Mencken once observed: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” Today, a great problem facing U.S. policymakers is how to maintain America’s technological edge against a rising China. Given China’s goal of supplanting the United States as the world’s leading power, America is right […]

This week, I voted in my second California gubernatorial primary. As the strategy director at a nonprofit focused on youth civic engagement, you’d think I’d be enthusiastic. But my peers and I are exhausted. Our primary system is ineffectual at best and—after countless conversations with other young voters—I believe that unless we improve our primary […]

A sizzle made me glance up from Sunrise on the Reaping. When I spotted the stove, I panicked. The pot glowed like magma, and all the water had evaporated. I turned off the fire and poured in the nearest glass of water to a large cloud of condensation. It was too late, though. My sense […]