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[ad_1] The right is finally having its long-overdue AI fight. Conservatives have treated AI as either a productivity miracle or a distant science-fiction threat. But the coalition lines are not clean. Parts of Silicon Valley now live comfortably inside the right, and parts of the right have adopted the language of founders, defense tech, crypto, and acceleration. The boosters tell us to build faster, regulate less, and trust the engineers. The skeptics warn of job loss, censorship, surveillance, and machines that slowly displace human judgment. Both camps see something real. Neither offers enough. The recent conservative backlash against the administration’s…
[ad_1] May 25, 2026 Cesar Chelala Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Now is the time to say it, as loud as possible, so that everybody will hear it. Our world is run by fools— yes, fools, unscrupulous, unrepentant fools— who, with their heartless minions, are willing to set the world on fire while they, their friends, their families, and their blind followers continue destroying everything that smells of decency, of people’s well‑being, of children’s boundless future— all in the name of blind allegiance to a God of gold while the masses clamor for a peace that, every day, grows even more…
[ad_1] The Kentucky congressman and his admirers need to understand why he lost. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] 50 Years Since Conservatives Broke Through in the GOP [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Dems Don't Need an Autopsy To Know What They Did Wrong [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis told CNN’s “State of the Union,” in response to President Trump calling him a RINO (Republican in Name Only), that if being in the party means defending Trump’s positions on Iran, January 6, and Russia, “then don’t call me a Republican.””Just call me a conservative. And I’m waiting for my Republicans to come back, if in fact they think they can argue that effectively. They can’t. The American people want right-of-center conservative policies that have been successfully proposed by this president,” Tillis said. “But these distractions are harmful to our chances in November.…
[ad_1] Two unrelated events collided recently: President Donald Trump went to China, and I learned that the boy who bullied me in high school died. The two events connected in my mind in an unexpected way. The media, bullies themselves, of course found the China trip largely a disaster. Trump generated predictable coverage: panic over diplomatic protocol, endless parsing of symbolism, and stories about EVs and AI. As when at home they report on every Trump gaffe, act of pantomime-like resistance, and negative turn in the Iran War, the purpose is to humiliate Trump and mock the Orange Man. The…
[ad_1] For years, I have tried to understand how and why so many of my family and friends, good and intelligent people, buy into the Trump-MAGA promise of quick and easy solutions to complex problems. I see why they believe the government has let them down and understand why they believe transgender athletes should not compete in women’s sports. But after Trump’s disappointing first term, his encouragement of the J6 insurrection, and his convictions for sexual abuse and falsifying business records, I cannot understand why they elected him to a second term. And in this term, after pardoning the convicted…
[ad_1] So, who you got in 2028: J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio? That’s the question conservatives across the country have been asking each other in recent months. Last year, Vance ’28 had seemed inevitable, but no longer. “Trump voters like Marco Rubio More and More,” blared the headline of a recent piece in the Atlantic. “And J.D. Vance less and less,” noted the subheadline. But at least one prominent conservative with a reputation for uncommon foresight still sees Vance as the future of the GOP—and Rubio as a defective robot programmed by out-of-touch donors. In a scathing Spectator article published…
[ad_1] The 15-Year-Old Keeping War Memories Alive [ad_2] Source link