By: Peter Landers – wsj.com – April 7, 2024 Telecommunications company NTT and leading newspaper Yomiuri to issue manifesto calling for new laws to restrain generative AI. TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. The Japanese companies’...

Yesterday’s hippies have become today’s seniors — and they’re still voting Democratic. Source: How ‘All in the Family’ Explains Biden’s Strength Among Seniors – The New York Times

Our own government’s recent history of collusion with private companies to surveil American citizens, suppress dissent, and de-bank individuals and organizations based on disfavored political or religious ideology raises the question: if TikTok ended up under American ownership, would its users simply be jumping out of the wok and into the fire?

By: Walter Russell Mead – wsj.com – April 1, 202 The U.S. isn’t the only place where border security is a hot political issue. The Dominican Republic is building a 250-mile wall across the island of Hispaniola to seal off its border with Haiti. Migrants crossing the English Channel have become a political challenge for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s beleaguered...

Robert Kennedy Jr. leads the highest-polling independent presidential ticket in over 30 years.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – March 27, 2024 Let’s apply the new Trump standard. Special counsel Robert Hur found that there was enough evidence to charge Joe Biden with a crime, yet he didn’t. As we know, Hur concluded that a jury would probably find that Biden didn’t have criminal intent, although he stipulated during his congressional hearing a couple...

If you ever want to see the moral and spiritual decline of America, go to a Supreme Court rally about abortion.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 26, 2024 ‘Diversity, equity and inclusion’ costs billions and doesn’t work. Memo to companies: Go ahead and cancel your DEI programs. That’s more or less the message of a recent report commissioned by the U.K. government finding that diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace isn’t all it’s cracked up to be....

A mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow killed more than 130 people. With many others seriously or gravely wounded the number of dead is likely to rise.

With the ever increasing warnings about the alleged danger of “Christian nationalism,” however ambiguous that term might be, it is only fair to ask: Is America a Christian nation?