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Opinion

What is real and what isn’t ?

Editorials and columns

Is anyone else finding it difficult to determine what is real or fake on social media? What is accurate? What “facts” are fabricated or exaggerated? What is AI generated and what is real? For years now, rumors have been considered fact on social media and the spreading of false or ...

Our screen culture increasingly can’t read

Editorials and columns

We've been having a debate about "book bans" in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not. The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the Educational ...

The bridge generation is feeling its age

Editorials and columns

Millennials are a cultural infrastructure, like an older overpass everyone depends on, but it's starting to carry more weight than it was originally designed to hold. We're trying to move things forward as we absorb tension from both directions. And increasingly, this generation is being asked ...

A society without God is a society without truth

Editorials and columns

Next Thursday evening, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. This holiday, which occurs seven weeks and one day after Passover (hence the name Shavuot, which literally means "weeks"), commemorates perhaps the most transformative event in all of human history: the revelation of the Word of ...

Who wins the re-redistricted House?

Editorials and columns

As President Donald Trump's job approval sinks to or below 40% (depending on which poll you're looking at), betting markets and political conventional wisdom are that his Republican Party is not necessarily doomed to lose its narrow House majority, nor is it at serious risk of losing its Senate ...