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What should you be teaching your kids right now to prepare them for an AI-scrambled job market?

I work with a lot of very smart people, and sometimes one of them asks me a question that stops me in my tracks. That’s…

Trump’s abuse of emergency powers is the real national emergency  

Rule by perpetual emergency is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It allows leaders to bypass lawmakers while preserving a veneer of legality. Once eroded, institutional norms cannot easily be restored.  

The ‘post-global’ NATO: Spain’s airspace ban signals the death of universal alliances

Spain's closure of its airspace to U.S. military aircraft involved in the conflict with Iran marks a shift away from the "blank check" era of…

Why gamblers could now still owe money, even if they break even

Thanks to a provision buried among the hundreds of pages of the Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is a tax provision that limits gamblers' ability to…

US rescues missing service member from downed jet in Iran: Trump

President Trump announced early Sunday that the U.S. rescued a missing service member from Iran, after a U.S. fighter jet was downed inside the country…

Former World Bank chief says Iran economy collapsing into ‘barter system’ amid conflict

Former World Bank President David Malpass predicted Sunday that Iran’s economy could collapse into a “barter system” as the country’s financial crisis worsens amid the…

These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot waterfall

New research from the Democratic Republic of Congo offers a behavioral and anatomical portrait of a species that can achieve surprising athletic feats.

From the Archives: Jeffrey Steingarten Learns the Art of the Omelet

He would have to seek out the cooking secrets of a master chef, and dozens would have to be sacrificed. For it had finally come…

The high price of everything, explained

When I was growing up, my dad and I would play a game at the grocery store: As the cashier was ringing up the items…

New ad campaign speaks out against Trump’s threat to ‘federalize’ elections

A new Republican-backed political ad set to debut on Sunday pushes back against President Trump’s suggestion that he would “nationalize” state elections. The “Power Grab”…