Opinion

Your doctor has to beg AI for permission to save your life

The practice of medicine requires a high level of personal accountability. Physicians make life-or-death decisions every day, accepting the profound legal and ethical duties...

Gavin Newsom thinks UC professors are as stupid as he is

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is capable of deciding that he wants to run to become the leader of the free world, but the California...

RFK Jr. wanted ‘gold standard’ science. mRNA just delivered it

In less than three weeks, American medicine produced two milestones worth noticing. On Aug. 5, the Food and Drug Administration approved MFLUSIVA, Moderna’s influenza vaccine...

From ‘kill her’ chants to broken ribs: Australia’s Trump moment is here

Whether it’s the President Donald Trump assassination attempts, the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk,...

Energy, infrastructure, and America’s hidden arms race with China

In early 2022, China launched the Eastern Data and Western Compute initiative, a cornerstone of President Xi Jinping’s long-standing ambition to establish Chinese dominance...

A concise but rich history of rock ‘n’ roll

“This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.” General Motors adopted that advertising slogan in the 1980s to revitalize one of its storied brands, and the...

A technological revolution tests our experiment in self-government

From Sumerian scribes to the Patriot Act, government is the management of information by institutions. A state’s reach is proportional to its institutional grasp,...

The irresistible lure of duty-free shopping

We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week...

A neglected book makes the case for birds

At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about...

A nuclear renaissance could be an important Trump legacy

The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2...
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