The invisible weight

Where does safeguarding end and censorship begin?When does a shelter become a prison cell? Wisconsin legislators are joining a growing number of states answering the public call for safeguards to keep children off of social media platforms. Around the country and around the world, restrictions are being put in place to prevent impressionable young people from being exposed to images and ideas that...

To the Editor: A year ago, Elon Musk waved a chainsaw over his head and promised that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would slash $2 trillion in federal waste, fraud, and abuse. That figure was later trimmed to $1 trillion, then quietly downgraded to “hundreds of billions.”Last month, DOGE itself quietly disappeared.Independent analyses tell a very different story from the hype....