Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has called the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) her “personal hero” and has taken up his mantle as the “maverick” of the Senate — unafraid to buck her own party or insist on bipartisan cooperation. If she wants to be a true maverick, says Mark A....
Ian Bremmer: Black Americans, the 1619 Project, and Nikole Hannah-Jones
In a new GZERO World interview, Ian Bremmer talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about her landmark 1619 Project. After it was published, Jones' work seemed to unleash a full-blown culture war over its central theme that the foundation of America's economic and political greatness was...
Zakaria: Elon Musk’s Diatribe Against Subsidies Ignores the History of the Tech Industry
In the United States, we tend to listen with rapt attention to the wisdom of people who have succeeded in the private sector. If they have made billions, we think, surely they must have profound insights about the world. When the person speaking is obviously brilliant, this adds to our...
Robberies. Drought. Tent Camps. Los Angeles’s Next Mayor Faces a Litany of Crises.
As the nation’s second-most-populated city struggles to emerge from the wreckage of the pandemic, a pileup of crises is confronting Los Angeles — and those who hope to become its next mayor next year. Tens of thousands of people remain unhoused, violent crime is up and sweeping problems like income...
Why Hospitalizations Are Now a Better Indicator of COVID’s Impact
America is in the slow process of accepting that COVID-19 will become endemic — meaning it will always be present in the population at varying levels. But the United States has effective tools to deal with that reality when it happens in the future, according to public health researchers Dr. Monica Gandhi and...
Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass
If it’s been a year or more since you traveled, particularly internationally, you may notice something different at airports in the United States: More steps — from checking a bag to clearing customs — are being automated using biometrics. Biometrics are unique individual traits, such as fingerprints, that can be used...
Joe Manchin’s Inflation Vindication
Forget transitory, says the Wall Street Journal editorial board, inflation is now persistent, and very high. The Labor Department reported Friday that consumer prices in November rose 6.8% in the last 12 months, the most since 1982. This should be all the warning Democratic doubters need to shelve President Biden’s...
Congress’s Message to Biden on Defense
The Wall Street Journal editorial board says Congress delivered a bipartisan rebuke last week to an utterly unrealistic defense budget submitted by the Biden Administration. President Biden in May proposed $715 billion for the Department of Defense in 2022. That was a 1.6% increase from 2021, an inflation-adjusted cut to...
Is MIT’s Research Helping the Chinese Military?
Michelle Bethel says she was thrilled when she joined the board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research seven years ago. But after resigning last week, Bethel says she's no longer confident the institute can ethically push the boundaries of science for the good of humanity...
Merrick Garland One-Ups Eric Holder
Nine months into U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tenure—and in one of the biggest disappointments of the Biden administration—the Justice Department is back to operating as a branch of the Democratic National Committee, says Kimberley A. Strassel in a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. Former Attorney General...