Politics & Current Events

Why a Camera on Your Face Feels Different Camera-enabled smart glasses bring us into a different kind of privacy conversation. We already live around cameras every day, from smartphones and doorbells to stores, cars, and security systems. But most of those cameras are either held in somebody’s hand or attached to a fixed location. Smart

The Warning Is Serious Without the Scare Tactics Folks approaching retirement have every reason to pay attention to what is happening with Social Security. But they should not have to sort through political scare tactics just to understand the truth. Social Security is not projected to go bankrupt or suddenly stop sending checks. The real

Who Really Holds Power in American Democracy? The Uneasy Question Behind American Democracy American democracy rests on a powerful promise that ordinary citizens have a voice in choosing the people who govern them. We vote, organize, criticize leaders, support causes, and remove elected officials when enough people decide it is time for change. But another

An Ancient Disease in a Modern State Leprosy sounds like something we should be reading about in the Bible or an ancient history book, not something showing up in Florida in 2026. Yet Hansen’s disease, which is the modern medical name for leprosy, has never completely disappeared. Florida has reported 17 cases so far this

When the Message and the Reality No Longer Match For months, Americans have heard confident statements about the war with Iran. We were told that important military targets had been destroyed and that Iran’s ability to fight was being seriously weakened. At different points, it sounded as though decisive American military power might bring the

The Strange Problem of a Product That Works Too Well In ordinary life, we naturally assume companies want to make the best products they possibly can. A good refrigerator should last longer, a good automobile should need fewer repairs, and a good telephone should remain useful for years. But business has always carried a mighty

The Supreme Court Changed the Tariff Story In February 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act did not give President Donald Trump authority to impose the sweeping tariffs his administration had collected under that law. The decision did not immediately put refund checks in anybody’s hands, but it opened