The Wrong Definition of Love
Opinion Columnist
Friday, August 29, 2025
Bibi Netanyahu's leadership questionable by first letting Israel's security lapse before October 2023 and now finding Israel's army exhausted from reprisal
Israel’s Exhausted Soldiers Complicate Plans for Gaza Assault
Worn down by hundreds of days of military service, fewer Israeli reservists are turning up for duty. Others are refusing to fight in a war they no longer believe in.
Reporting from Jerusalem
Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State
Opinion Columnist
I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back.
Mr. Vilk is a reserve captain in the Israel Defense Forces. He lives in Tel Aviv.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Alaska ought to fund their local NPR radio stations
Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
Megan Mineiro, a congressional reporter, and Haiyun Jiang, a photojournalist, traveled to Unalaska, Alaska, to report this article.
Sunday, August 24, 2025
The Stock Market today looks more like the early 70's when the Nifty Fifty dominated
How Long Can This Uncanny Stock Market Prosper?
Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.
Military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, both men and women. The exemption for the ultra-Orthodox, known in Hebrew as Haredim, has long been resented by the rest of the Jewish population. But the nearly two-year war in Gaza has turned an irritant into a political crisis that is deepening divisions in Israeli society and imperiling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition.
The War in Israel Over Serving in War
Elisabeth BumillerNatan Odenheimer and Johnatan Reiss
The journalists reported from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Bat Yam, Israel.
Friday, August 22, 2025
Rising electricity demand in part due to AI needs will save subsidy free green energy
Why Solar and Wind Power Can Thrive Without Subsidies
Rising electricity demand, in part due to AI needs, along with the increasing cost of alternatives should cushion the impact for green energy
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One spot of good news is the fact that more young people, and especially young men, are returning to church. I’ve been skeptical of this trend, but the evidence is building. Among Gen Z, more young men now go to church than young women. In Britain, according to one study, only 4 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds went to church in 2018, but by 2024 it was 16 percent. From the anecdotes I keep hearing, young people seem to be going to the most countercultural churches — traditionalist Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. They don’t believe in what the establishment tells them to believe in. They live in a world in which many believe in nothing. But still, somewhere deep inside, that hunger is there. They want to have faith in something.
I just bought The First Populist; The Defiant life of Andrew Jackson because of its title
The title The First Populist; The Defiant life of Andrew Jackson strikes me as a must read for those of us in the Trump era.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Rock stars used to be lucky if they made it to 40. Now they’re racing to nonagenarian status, and it’s time we rethought our view of these erstwhile bad boys. Yesterday’s superstars are today’s superagers. They must be up at dawn doing calisthenics. Their groupies must be bringing them kale smoothies. When they finally do join that great gig in the sky, their earthly bodies shouldn’t be interred. They should be turned over to medical science for research.
Classic Rock of the 70s and Older
‘Hope I die before I get old,’ wrote Pete Townshend. He didn’t even come close.
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Mr. Trump can bring about a reasonably successful conclusion to this catastrophic war by doing what Mr. Putin fears most: rejecting the Russian dictator’s flattery and demands and insisting he make a fair, enforceable deal with Mr. Zelensky. Or else. Anything less would be a stain on Mr. Trump and on his party, for which they’d rightly pay a high political price.
Those Republican morons in Texas congratulating themselves for securing the 2026 election aren't figuring on the Hispanic dismay with Trump
The GOP Losing Hispanic Support Is a Massive Self-Own
Harsh immigration tactics and lackluster economic policies have torpedoed Hispanic support for President Trump.
Who will tell him the truth? No one. No one but the wild earth of Ukraine. In the trenches in the Donbas, there is truth. In the 20,000 Ukrainian children that Kyiv says Putin has abducted, there is truth. In the roughly 1.4 million Russian and Ukrainian soldiers killed and wounded as a result of Putin’s fevered dreams of restoring Ukraine to Mother Russia, there is truth. In the Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian drones at the same time that Trump was laying out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska, there is truth. And the longer Trump ignores those truths, the more he builds his peace strategy — not on expertise but on his hugely inflated self-regard and his un-American anti-Westernism — the more this will become his war. And if Putin wins it and Ukraine loses it, Trump and his reputation will suffer irreparable damage — now and forever.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Keep It Simple Stupid because you are way in over your head in minutia
U.S. Allies Still Waiting for Tariff Relief on Autos and Steel
Hastily drafted trade accords leave questions about who promised what
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As a devoted NPR listener and PBS News Hour viewer I applaud their cut from the public trough and complete reliance on private support
Rich Liberals to the Rescue!
Some of the left’s most generously funded foundations support public broadcasters.
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Intel should drop their sights to second tier with the Pentagon as their sponsor and customer
Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
Lauren Hirsch and Tripp Mickle
Lauren Hirsch reported from New York, and Tripp Mickle from San Francisco.