Monday’s Helsinki summit meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin began after Mr. Putin showed up almost an hour late. With Mr. Putin, such actions are never accidental. It was a put-down of Mr. Trump from which he never recovered entirely.
Quantum technology harnesses the radical power of quantum systems — such as isolated atoms, photons and electrons — to transform how we process and communicate information. But that potential can be realized only if our nation’s resources are focused in a way that helps bring quantum research from the laboratory to the marketplace.
In his review of "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right," environmental writer Bill McKibben condemns moguls such as the Koch brothers for hiding "their contributions through outfits like DonorsTrust." In other words, according to Mr. McKibben, DonorsTrust, which is "committed to the principles of limited government, personal responsibility and free enterprise," is a conservative dark money conduit.
President Donald J. Trump's decision to remove the United States from President Barack Obama's disastrous deal with the mullahs in Iran has created a flawed hysteria by the mainstream media and members of the European Union. The media's reaction is predictable.
Apple will soon release Screen Time, a program permitting parents to remotely monitor and limit the intervals children spend on their iPhones and specific apps. Features in the new Android operating system will likely enable similar capabilities but for most children, these are potentially harmful.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) marked the granting of the nation's 10 millionth patent. Patent filings and issuances are at historically high levels, with more than 2.8 million active patents in the United States, which is both good and troubling news.
The trade war is heating up and has the potential to harm everyone involved.
This is a dramatic account by a young Muslim from Saudi Arabia who had become so radicalized into Islamist extremism that he decided in 1994 (at the age 16) to travel to Bosnia and join a group of al Qaeda-affiliated foreign fighters who were fighting on behalf of Bosnia's Muslims against their adversary Croatian and Serbian Christian militias.
The mental health industry isn't what it used to be, although there are plenty of brilliant and compassionate analysts and counselors who help lots of people.
Last week I testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the state of the American labor market. I summarized my message in one sentence: For American workers the job market has never — or at least, seldom — been better. If you don't have a job, go out and get one because they are out there for the taking.
Last Monday, President Trump caught the Pentagon by surprise by ordering it to establish a sixth military service: a "Space Force." Mr. Trump said it is to be carved out of the Air Force and the two would be "separate but equal."
This week in the news: All of the sudden, the mainstream media, Hollywood, the liberal church, and other members of our national intelligentsia seem to care about what the Bible says. In particular, they appear to have suddenly acquired some affection for the Old Testament — a book that, heretofore, these proud members of the "smarter-than-thou" club have excoriated as laden with "hate-filled rhetoric."
North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un's latest visit to Beijing last week cannot obscure the fact that China, once the primary conduit between Washington and Pyongyang, is at risk of being largely left on the outside. The White House has eroded China's leverage by establishing a direct telephone link — a virtual hotline — to Mr. Kim.
What Dr. John Arbuthnot wrote three centuries ago is still true today: "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." The same applies to political ideologies, as Notre Dame Professor Patrick J. Deneen makes abundantly clear in "Why Liberalism Failed," a short but deep volume that makes a number of devastating critical points even if it sometimes comes up a bit short on solutions.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a huge public relations hit for daring to quote scripture while explaining why borders should be secure, even if it means separating children from the adults who've carted them into the nation illegally in the first place. But let's get this straight, and straight-away: Borders are indeed biblical.
Time and again we hear politicians from different parts of the country profess the virtues of a soda tax. Their reasoning ranges from wanting to improve the public health, by cutting back consumption of unhealthy drinks, to talking about how much revenue it will bring in.
Congress has declared an opioid crisis in the United States. We have voted on a slew of bills recently, but notably absent is any legislation that addresses the source of the problem. So while we spent billions for addiction treatment, and we granted the Food and Drug Administration more authority to regulate expired or unused drugs and impose packaging restrictions, we did nothing that will have a meaningful impact. Why?
Barack Obama is miffed because he thinks he collected the tinder for a booming economy, and events ignited a booming economy and the Donald gets the credit. That's pretty fanciful, as most economists will tell you. But now Mr. Obama can watch with a measure of pleasure as President Trump takes heat for using the Obama example of how to deal with the children brought by their families to the hell on the border.
Among the life-altering books I have read in my lifetime is Dr. Meyer Friedman and Dr. Ray H. Rosenman's "Type A Behavior and Your Heart."
One-and-a-half years into his battle-weary presidency, Donald Trump is fighting a three-front war: With Congress on immigration, our trading partners and U.S. businesses on tariffs, and special counsel Robert S. Mueller's widening, criminal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
"The Book of Essie" is about Esther Anne Hicks, the pregnant 17-year-old daughter of a phenomenally popular charismatic preacher. Her whole life has been televised for the reality TV show "Six for Hicks," which follows her family's daily life as well as their exertions on missions and their campaigns against most of the social changes of the last few decades.
The left has certainly been crying their share of tears over the border kids who've been pulled from their illegally crossing parents' sides -- in fact, almost as many tears as the little kids themselves. Who knows. Maybe they really are that sad.
