Q. The Olympics are over and I鈥檓 bored. I don鈥檛 know what to do with myself. It鈥檚 not really that the Olympics are over as much as my parents monitor my social media use on my phone and Chromebook. And I鈥檓 allowed to watch only the TV they approve 鈥� which is how I got so into the ...
Things are starting to look like we may be the only species that has a chance to stop its own potential demise. The apes never held hearings about Homo sapiens taking over, but Congress, Silicon Valley, and cable news talking heads are debating the future of artificial intelligence. ...
At Tuesday night's State of the Union address, President Trump, speaking of the Democratic lawmakers in the House chamber, proclaimed, "These people are crazy. I'm telling you, they're crazy." Not so fast, Mr. President. Here are two examples of real crazy. Both originate with the president ...
Q. I saw your recent response to a parent and thought 鈥� I can ask my question too! I hope that鈥檚 okay. I鈥檓 the mom of a very inquisitive 5-year-old. When I say inquisitive, I mean there isn鈥檛 an hour of the day when I鈥檓 not asked something. I actually enjoy it. She keeps me on my ...
When David Simas left Washington in 2011 and set out for Chicago and the Obama re-election campaign, things "looked bleak" for the incumbent president. For one thing, unemployment remained high in the messy aftermath of the Great Recession, a result of the housing market bust that occurred in ...
This is personal. At my father's funeral in 1991 a man introduced himself to me with a surprising revelation: "I knew your great grandmother." As a youngster, Bill Calhoun, my dad's chum, delivered the Connellsville Courier. One of his stops was the Soisson Theater. The Crawford Street ...
