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Beware the charm of our rising chatbots

Leave it to a comedian with a national TV platform to express what troubles a lot of us, even if we hesitate to talk about it -- for fear of being ridiculed as backward-looking worry warts. "When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it's time to shut the whole thing down until we ...

Trust this: There’s no cure for colic other than time

If you're worried that no mysteries remain in the world, that humans have climbed every mountain, mastered every technology and solved every riddle, fear not. There's always colic. The topic of colic came up the other day, when I learned that my husband had completely forgotten that our ...

$2 trillion — and no excuse

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous ...

What voters see in the political parties

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...

My kingdom for another golf course

WASHINGTON -- Something told me to get me over to East Potomac Park before Donald Trump destroyed it. Sure enough, I did, on a rainy Sunday morning, for a rally to protect the waterfront parkland from his axe. On the next weekend, he cut down 430 trees -- for a fancy golf course, of ...

Who is Ilhan Omar?

Much of Ilhan Omar's family story is a black box, but we are presumably about to learn more about it. Federal authorities raided her Washington, D.C., residence in what's reportedly a probe related to her immigration paperwork. The congresswoman has alleged an effort to weaponize federal ...