The other night, I got up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom and heard the dishwasher making a terrible grinding noise. I couldn’t stop the cycle by pushing buttons, but it stopped when I opened the door. All good. We (meaning Dave) could deal with the problem in the morning. I plodded back BEEP ...

I'm far from understanding chatbots, chips and AI technology, but I've worked in D.C. long enough to be suspicious when industry giants come begging for government regulations. In the September 2026 essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that AI "could ...

In my circles and in the landscape of education, I hear all too frequently a phrasing about the “industry of education,” or “in our industry,” leading into more talk about the nature of teaching and learning from early childhood through the university systems. To be fair, I know that ...

I didn't leave my political party; my party left me. Both of them. I've been a Democrat, and I've been a Republican. What I am now doesn't matter. The point is that a lot of American voters feel perpetually frustrated by the choices they find on the November ballot. The Democratic or ...

The puzzling day comes into every parent’s life when your children become your parents. In an eerie moment we look back to check on them and they’re no longer there. Then we look forward and there they are, outperforming us, outthinking us, and sometimes reaching back to help us move safely ...

This is not another opinion article about Lindsay Clancy. Well, not really. I'm not qualified to discuss the woman's actions or the validity of her insanity defense in a murder trial for several million reasons at least. I've learned over the last few weeks that I'm one of the 10 people ...