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 – I can ask my question too! I hope that’s okay. I’m the mom of a very inquisitive 5-year-old. When I say inquisitive, I mean there isn’t an hour of the day when I’m 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 ...
I decided to rerun this column from Feb. 13, 2020, for three reasons. It echoes sentiment I continue to hear from young people, the peer educator response was honest, and it is especially poignant to me since it ran about a month before the pandemic. Q. I hate Valentine’s Day. I once loved ...
