The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) helps tech giants, but promises to threaten a large number of white collar jobs

How AI Helps Tech Giants

The emergence of AI favors certain interests, notably a handful of technology giants, the media and a small cadre of highly skilled programmers. Everyone else faces economic danger, certain to roil domestic and international politics in coming years.

Latino voters make up an increasing percentage of the electorate

2024 Will Be the Latino Election

The key voting bloc in American politics is not the black or Evangelical vote – it’s the Latinos. Now by far the largest racial minority in the nation, Latinos are also the great contested electoral territory.

Toronto is showing signs of urban decline, which it had avoided until recent years

Toronto Falls Into Pit of Urban Decline that’s Plagued U.S. Cities

For years, American urbanists and city planners have looked at Canadian cities with envy, as they had managed to avoid the searing decline of their American counterparts. And Toronto was where the late Jane Jacobs chose to make her home, largely due to her enthusiasm for urban neighbourhoods.

Big tech increasingly controls the information we see

Woke Big Tech Launched Crusade Against Free Speech

The technological revolution once promised a new era of expanded democracy and enhanced opportunity. Instead, we face today a reality that blends the worst aspects of George Orwell’s Big Brother and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World controllers.

California not such a golden land for Jews any more as antisemitism rises on the political Left

Golden Land

The Golden State has long been, as one nineteenth century Gentile observer put it, “the Jews’ earthly paradise.” Today, California offers a less appealing landscape as hostility toward Israel and Jews originates mostly from the progressive Left, rather than the Right, the historic base for antisemitism.

American flag hanging from an oil refinery in Carson, California

The Myth of America’s Decline

That America’s decline remains a myth at present owes more to natural resources, technological dominance and demographic vitality than to its political leadership.

Is the Cosmopolis a bust these day?

Cosmopolis or Bust?

Three decades ago, author Steve Toulmin published a book in which he argued that the cosmopolis constitutes the true “agenda of modernity.” But across the planet today, the cosmopolitan ideal is under attack from both the nationalist Right and the intersectional Left.

California's deficit soars as the tech boom in artificial intelligence does not promise lots of new jobs

California Deficit Soars to $73 Billion

California’s deficit soars to $73 billion, as a tech boom in artificial intelligence enriches big tech, but may not create as many jobs as it destroys.

Teachers Unions Have Turned Our Schools into Woke Brainwashing Camps

School choice has become ever more popular as teacher’s unions drive policies that have turned our public schools into brainwashing camps and student performance has declined.

Why Are Americans Becoming More Stupid?

The dysfunction in education is evident from top to bottom: from Ivy League outposts down to the secondary schools. Both are producing a generation that is ill-informed, illiterate and innumerate.