What Lincoln can tell us about MAGA

Something is clearly happening with Donald Trump. Even a year ago, I don’t think he would have begun a rally with 12 minutes of rambling remarks about late golfer Arnold Palmer, concluding with a discussion of the size of Palmer’s penis.

Ticking down — The states take aim at TikTok

Last week, 14 state attorneys general, including New York AG Tish James, sued the social media platform TikTok for allegedly damaging young users’ mental health and collecting information about them with its service in violation of state and federal laws.

Hey, big spenders — Trump’s plans bust the federal budget

The Republican Party is the party of fiscal responsibility? It’s been a laughable idea ever since presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have pushed massive, unpaid-for, deficit-ballooning tax cuts skewed to deliver the biggest benefits to the wealthiest among us.

We may face another ‘too big to fail’ scenario as AI labs go unchecked

In the span of two or so years, OpenAI, Nvidia and a handful of other companies essential to the development of artificial intelligence have become economic behemoths. Their valuations and stock prices have soared. Their products have become essential to Fortune 500 companies. Their business plans are the focus of the national security industry. Their collapse would be, well, unacceptable. They are too big to fail.

If the pro-life movement loses this one, its future is in danger

I’ll never forget the first time I heard my oldest daughter’s heartbeat. My wife was experiencing trouble in the first three months of pregnancy, and we were worried she was miscarrying. We rode together to her doctor’s office, full of anxiety. And then we heard the magical sound — the pulsing of our little girl’s tiny heart. We didn’t know if she would ultimately be OK, but there was one thing we knew: Our daughter was alive.

Without aid, this famine may become one of history’s worst

Famine has already been officially declared in Sudan, and by some estimates, it could claim millions of lives and end up as one of the worst famines in world history. For now, it’s in the early stages, but there are already far too many starving children. When I traveled to the Chad-Sudan border last month, I met one of them with his mom in a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders.

As I See It: The stuntman

A certain candidate has a history of attention getting -events that serve to get his face and name in the news many times a day. Free publicity! Most not quite as dramatic as Sept 16. Or July 13. The Golden Escalator, Deus ex machina (God from the machine) tactic was an early warning that as a candidate he would not play fair, but as it is said, all’s fair in love and war. Politics are a bloodless (almost) form of warfare. He blithely talks about shooting someone on 5th avenue. Free publicity!