Even though memes aren't really an inherently trustworthy source of news, it is a pretty good way to get an idea of what people are thinking. Some that have long bothered me are those mocking the fact that people like my grandparents were able to buy a house on a blue-collar, one-income salary, and today, both adults work and they can't afford jack. Now, there's a lot that needs to be unpacked in this, but I think we need to start by understanding that the concerns are real. Buying a house...

US President Donald Trump has said he will immediately remove Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her position, in a major escalation in his battle against the US central bank. He said there was "sufficient reason" to believe Cook had made false statements on mortgage agreements, and cited constitutional powers which he said allowed him to remove her. In response, Cook said Trump had no authority to fire her and she would not resign. It is an unprecedented move for the president to...

To many Washington insiders, President Trump’s early August Beltway crime crackdown seemed like an opportunistic and hamhanded pivot after getting walloped for weeks over the Jeffrey Epstein affair. But if it wasn’t clear then, it is now: The White House’s public safety play is a deliberate ploy to refocus the narrative on an issue that favors Republicans ahead of the midterms — one that’s already backing Democrats into a corner. The president in recent days is leaning even further into...

Ukraine’s stunning success with drones in the Black Sea, sinking or heavily damaging an estimated 30 Russian naval vessels in more than three years of war, has not gone unnoticed in the U.S. Drones have become a priority at the Pentagon. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this month christened the USX-1 Defiant, a first-of-its-kind autonomous unmanned surface vehicle designed from the ground up for deployment in the sea without a human crew. The 180-foot, 240-metric-ton...

Under President Donald Trump, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has become the driving force of his sweeping crackdown on migrants, bolstered by record funding and new latitude to conduct raids, but staff are contending with long hours and growing public outrage over the arrests. Those internal pressures are taking a toll. Two current and nine former ICE officials told Reuters the agency is grappling with burnout and frustration among personnel as agents struggle to keep...

I remember the moment I knew my approach to student use of artificial intelligence was not working. Early in a meeting at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus last fall, a philosophy professor, arms crossed over his chest, told me he’d tried one of the strategies my office had suggested — talking with his students about the ways A.I. could interfere with their learning — and it hadn’t worked. His students had listened politely, then several of them had used A.I. to write their papers anyway. He...

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