"[I]n the public university setting, student disagreement with a professor's academic speech on an issue of public concern cannot alter the Pickering analysis in the government's favor." A short ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...

As early voting begins, self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani continues to lead the New York City mayoral race. Mamdani has pitched himself as the candidate who will “lower the cost of ...

What is the best way to build working-class power when labor’s leverage over capital is near a historic low? With private-sector union density at just 5.9 percent, the structural weakness of the labor ...

Tesla has unveiled the long-promised cheaper versions of its two main cars, dubbed the Model 3 Standard and Model Y Standard, after the expiration of the $7,500 tax credit for American buyers of most ...

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...

OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence ...

In June, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported, “There is very little evidence of artificial intelligence taking away jobs on a large scale to date. Correlation between AI exposure and the ...

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, frets about the “lack of progress for children from white working-class backgrounds”. Detailed data for this year have still to come, but the attainment ...

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The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a new partnership with Nvidia Corp. to develop artificial intelligence models designed to advance scientific research across the country. The ...