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Podcaster wrong to discourage kids from studying coding

Reality TV and podcast star Jack Osbourne recently said that if one of his kids said they wanted to go to school to be a coder, he would tell them not to and instead to “learn to be a carpenter or a tiler or a framer or something if you want to be creative because AI can’t do that.” ...

Did Biden declare an emergency because of his border policies?

Joe Biden has declared an emergency and called the fire department over a bit of smoke in New York City. The smoke? It results from a proverbial fire he started on our southern border. Much like the plumes of smoke from western U.S. and Canadian forest fires that hit the jet streams in the ...

Opinion: IRS must be called out for its abuses

Because of a lack of accountability dating back decades, the Internal Revenue Service has become a corrupt and dysfunctional shell of its former self. It has lost the ability and the moral authority to enforce the Internal Revenue Code. I know this because, unfortunately, I had a front-row ...

The cheapening of the impeachment process

Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman, argued during the celebrated impeachment of Warren Hastings, the governor of Bengal, that impeachment was essentially a political process, not a judicial one. Quite so. The political dimension of impeachment is again on display in Washington, ...

Mismatch in perceptions will have consequences for economic cooperation

There is a growing hope that the changed economic outlook for China may create new opportunities for détente in U.S.-China relations. Many expect a new attitude of compromise by Chinese officials seeking foreign investment to boost a sluggish economy. The meeting in August of Commerce ...

Mission possible — control AI

Artificial intelligence comes alive in this summer’s “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.” The film shows — spoiler alert — an advanced AI system turning against humans, launching weapons and manipulating devices in undetectable ways. One of the most disturbing tricks of the ...