FAA to reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown Dear Commons Community, The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that it was taking the extraordinary step of reducing air […]

Nate Silver:  Polls Overestimated Trump’s Pull in Elections Nate Silver Dear Commons Community, Pollster and statistician Nate Silver commented yesterday that polls this year were overestimating […]

Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, going on the "AI Offense" and warns of shake-up that will impact 2.1M of his company jobs! Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart. Dear Commons Community, Doug McMillon, the CEO of Walmart, warned earlier this week that artificial […]

Amazon to Layoff 30,000 Corporate Employees! Dear Commons Community, Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs immediately as the company pares expenses and […]

Democrats dominate on Election Day in Complete Rebuke of Trump! Winners:  New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Mikie Sherrill; New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani; and Abigail […]

Election Day 2025 – Five Races to Watch! Former President Barack Obama and New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ). ((Photo by Michael M. […]

David Bloomfield: What New York City’s Education System Might Look Like under Zohran Mamdani? Dear Commons Community, The Progressive Magazine had an article yesterday speculating on what New York City’s education system might l […]

Maureen Dowd:  Men Need Relationships with Men – "Bros Need Bros" Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro Dear Commons Community, Maureen Dowd’s New York Times column yesterday was entitled, “Bros Need Some Bro […]

Takeaways from Trump's '60 Minutes' interview with Norah O'Donnell Dear Commons Community, Last night Trump was interviewed on CBS’s 60 Minutes by Norah O’Donnell. It was a bit boring with the same old […]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Interview Addresses Split with the GOP: 'I Blame My Own Party' Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Dear Commons Community, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday ad […]

Will Smith's Homer in 11th Inning Lifts Dodgers over Blue Jays 5-4 to Become First Repeat Champion in 25 Years! Los Angeles Dodgers’ Will Smith celebrates a home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the11th inning in Game 7 of baseball’s World […]

Pre-Election, All-Caps New York Times Headline Goes Viral for Prophetic Warnings About Trump   Dear Commons Community, The New York Times last year plastered a rather prophetic warning across the front page of its Sunday Op […]

Daylight Saving Time Starts Tonight: Set Clock Back One Hour. Dear Commons Community, The sun will soon appear to rise earlier in the morning and set earlier in the evening for most people in the […]

Amazon Opens $11 Billion Rainier Data Center in Indiana to Advance AI Anthropic Partnership Amazon’s Ranier Data Center Dear Commons Community, Amazon officially opened its $11 billion Rainier data center in Indiana on […]

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At a novel meeting, AI wrote and reviewed the papers! Illustration:  Mina De Lao/Getty Images Dear Commons Community, Major scientific journals and conferences ban crediting an artificial […]

Pauses in Ph.D. Admissions Are a Blessing in Disguise! Dear Commons Community, Maddalena Alvi, who  has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge and is the author of The European A […]

New Book:  “Paradise Bronx” by Ian Frazier! Dear Commons Community, I have just finished reading Paradise Bronx:  The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough by Ian Fra […]

Federal Reserve Cuts Rates .25% – What it means for our finances? Dear Commons Community, The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point yesterday for the second time since […]

Michael D. Smith: Americans Losing Confidence in Higher Education! The Chronicle of Higher Education Dear Commons Community, Michael D. Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at […]