In a family of killer diseases, pancreatic cancer has long been one of the scariest. It could grow undetected for years, and by the time most people knew something was wrong, their prognosis was grim. The vast majority of patients, nearly 90 percent, would die within the first five years of their diagnosis. Even as […]

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it will not decide Hamm v. Smith, a case involving a genuinely difficult constitutional question about whether an Alabama inmate may lawfully be executed. The immediate upshot of this decision is that Joseph Clifton Smith, who’s at the heart of this case, will not be killed. Smith prevailed […]

Summer travel is just ramping up, but our country’s pride and joy is being put through the wringer.  Since President Donald Trump took office in 2025, the National Park Service has been gutted. Staff have left or been laid off, historical signage has been removed, and funding to maintain and operate the parks has been […]

In any given week, more than a billion people now look to chatbots for information and advice — as well as robo-plagiarism, erotica, and myriad other services. ChatGPT alone boasts 900 million weekly users. And these figures are likely to rise. In the near future, a handful of AI platforms could shape the way that billions […]

Donald Trump’s self-dealing and profiteering from high office, a longtime subtheme of his presidency, has just become its defining story. Consider the following list of news and revelations, all from roughly the past week: It is not hard to see the problem with this behavior. Most people intuitively know it’s bad for politicians to abuse […]