The United States is now four summers into a pattern it can no longer call unprecedented. Each summer from 2023 to today, we’ve had Canadian wildfire smoke cross the border and trigger air quality emergencies across a widening swath of the country. What began as Manhattan’s skyline ...
I’m not alone in feeling powerless when I hear another heartbreaking story about a young person struggling with anxiety, depression or loneliness. First, ask yourself, “What happened?” Then, “What can I do about it?” When the challenges are this serious, it is understandable ...
While America’s pursuit of rare earth metals makes the most headlines, the Trump administration turned the spotlight on the nation’s biggest mining export success: Coal. For rare earths, the primary challenge is building domestic processing capacity to reduce dependence on Chinese ...
In the aftermath of the savings-and-loan crisis, Congress passed the Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990. Buried inside was a provision prosecutors call the “financial kingpin” statute. Modeled on the laws used to topple drug cartels, it ...
The reviews of “Toy Story 5” have settled into a comfortable consensus: it’s a movie about children and digital screens, and about the parents who worry over them. Director and co-writer Andrew Stanton has said as much, describing the film’s central crisis as the fact that “nobody’s ...
When it comes to bioweapons, we’ve moved beyond anthrax in the mail. No one wants to think about an AI bioweapon or any other type of biothreat. These threats are a real risk that we must confront now before Americans suffer. We have powerful tools available to protect us, but Washington must ...