Bill Gates reconsiders climate change, advocating for human welfare and economic growth.

By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – November 4, 2025 Manufacturing job losses in the 2000s affected politics. Disruptions to desk jobs will too. While this isn’t the first such transformative moment in American history, it may turn out to be the fastest. Four of America’s largest tech firms—Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon—combined have had capital expenditures of $360 billion...

By: Sierra Dawn McClain – wsj.com – October 29, 2025 Farms automate harvests of corn and other crops, but the technology still needs work. It’s harvest time in America’s major apple-producing states, including Washington, New York and Michigan. The Agriculture Department projects the U.S. crop this year will surpass 11 billion pounds—nearly all picked by hand in brisk fall air....

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2025 The problems it solves are real but comparatively minor. The risks it creates are enormous. In some ways, I understand why there is some demand for a digital ID. In theory, a digital ID could offer individuals more privacy. Instead of handing your driver’s license over to a bouncer — who then learns...

By: James Lynch – nationalreview.com – October 24, 2025 Sanger’s crusade has attracted some powerful allies. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has known for years that the website he helped create — the single largest repository of human knowledge ever assembled — was going off the rails. But it wasn’t until he read the entry for Yahweh, the Old Testament name...

By: Jonathan Rosenthal and Neal Zuckerman – wsj.com – October 22, 2025 Wright’s Law is being rewritten, and leaders who don’t adapt to this new world will be replaced. Artificial intelligence has accelerated this principle. It is rewriting Wright’s Law, which assumes that experience follows production: You make mistakes, learn from them and improve. AI makes it possible for experience...

A line no longer runs between the north and the south, but between those on Bluesky and those on X.

By: James Lynch – nationalreview.com – October 19, 2025 Shared concerns about the welfare of children and workers are bringing sharply divided lawmakers together. Republicans and Democrats who can’t agree on much of anything these days — including how to keep the basic functions of the federal government up and running — seem to be finding common ground on how...

Under the new system, Meta’s AI chatbot will limit its responses to teen users to age appropriate content.

Bad actors in and out of government will want to misuse new technology to the detriment of freedom.