David Paul

They say the wave is upon us.

Less than a month to go, and the dread is palpable.

Why, New York Times election guru Nate Cohn wondered this week, isn’t AI showing up as a bigger issue for voters?

The Challenge Facing Capitalism and Democracy

Part One.

No one could have been surprised when Donald Trump dragged the old horse out of the barn and gave it one more run around the track. “I have agreed,” he posted on his Truth Social account the other day, “for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL.

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

A few weeks ago, the headline screamed duplicity.

I expected more of Sergey Brin.

The trial of the century, which pits Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, opens on Monday in federal court in Oakland, California.

Savor this moment.

The war with Iran could finally be Donald Trump’s undoing, but what a price the world will have paid by the end of his time in the Oval Office.

Republican strategists are apparently in full panic mode.

“Should liberals start arming themselves?” the headline ran this week on The Bulwark, the apostate, anti-Trump Republican website. It was my feeling exactly as I watched the execution of Alex Pretti, over and over again.

We are living in the era of the new Sun King.

Donald Trump is a seriously disturbed individual.

“I have a question for Bernie Sanders,” Fox News host Mark Levin ranted a few years back.

We are arriving at – indeed by the time this is posted we may have already reached – what could be the make-or-break moment for the Supreme Court, and for the country.

With the war in Gaza apparently nearing its end, it is easy to forget that the other war that has consumed the world’s attention for years now is threatening to spiral out of control.

When a powerful earthquake struck Afghanistan a few weeks ago, my immediate question was how America would respond.