Essay – What Autocrats Want from Academics: Servility! Dear Commons Community, Anna Dumont, a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Northwestern University, had an essay in The Chronicle of […]

GOP Senator Rand Paul Issues Dire Warning To Fellow Republicans About Trump Tariffs Dear Commons Community, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who was one of only four Republicans to vote against Trump’s steep inte […]

Let the Trade War begin! This chart shows the levies on some of America’s biggest trading partners.   (The new fees exclude Canada and Mexico, which already fac […]

Happy Birthday to My Wonderful Wife, Elaine, Eighty Years Old Today! Flying a kite in Seattle. Dear Commons Community, Today is my wife, Elaine’s eighty birthday.   I have been blessed to have her on m […]

Musk and Trump humbled as Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat! Dear Commons Community, A Democrat-backed judge has won a key seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a vote widely seen as a […]

Wall Street Journal:  Trump just handed Democrats a winning election slogan –  "I couldn’t care less" if car manufacturers raise prices Dear Commons Community, The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page yesterday whacked Trump for handing Democrats what it said […]

Foreign tourism into the U.S. is expected to drop, due to ‘polarizing Trump administration policies and rhetoric’ Dear Commons Community, The outlook for international travel to the U.S. has drastically changed and is now seen declining this year […]

Michael I. Kotlikoff, President of Cornell University: "We’re Not Afraid of Debate and Dissent." Dear Commons Community, Michael I. Kotikoff, President of Cornell University, had a guest essay in The New York Times on Sunday, […]

The New York Times Editorial Board thinks the Democratic Party is in a state of denial and needs a serious wake-up call. Credit…Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times Dear Commons Community, In an  editorial yesterday, The New York Times […]

Mark Cuban says home insurance will be the ‘No. 1 housing affordability issue’ for Americans! Dear Commons Community, There’s passionate debate about how to solve America’s ongoing housing crisis, much of which revolves around […]

Fordham University Receives $100 Million Gift to Revolutionize STEM Programs  Carolyn and Mo Cunniffe. Photo: Chris Taggart Dear Commons Community, Fordham University has announced a $100 […]

Protests against Elon Musk’s swarm Tesla showrooms in the United States and Europe! A protester holds a sign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk while rallying outside a Tesla store in San Francisco  yesterday. (AP Photo/Noah […]

Medical Experts say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims about vitamin A as a measles treatment are misleading! Dear Commons Community, More and more people are becoming infected in the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, New Mexico and other s […]

Katrina A. Armstrong, Columbia University Interim President, Resigns after School Accepts Trump's Demands Katrina A. Armstrong Dear Commons Community, Columbia University announced yesterday that its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, […]

Microsoft ignites furor over its quantum computing claim! Microsoft’s Majorana 1 processor, a quantum computing device it claims contains eight  “topological” qubits. PHOTO: JOHN BRECH […]

DeepSeek Creates Tong Tong – AI Moving Into a New Era! Tong Tong (pictured, center) is an artificial general intelligence (AGI) agent at the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence […]

Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace doctors and teachers!   Dear Commons Community, Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be […]

Adam Kinzinger Dares ‘Small Man’ Trump to Arrest Him: Says ‘Bring It On, Stop Pretending You’re Tough!’ ‘I Will Crush You in Court’ Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger during an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN. Dear Commons Community, Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger […]

The Signal Snafu: Vance, Hegseth, Waltz, Miller- Loathing for Europe, and other things! Mike Waltz, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth Dear Commons Community, The most important part of the Signal snafu remains the fact that the s […]

Trump moves Special Education from USDOE to the Department of Health and Human Services under Robert Kennedy, Jr. – Ugh!   Dear Commons Community Donald Trump announced last weekend that federal special education operations, currently spearheaded by the […]