Author: Conn Carroll Washington Examiner

On Wednesday, while writing a story on gerrymandering, I asked ChatGPT, “Which states have congressional delegation partisan breakdowns most divergent from the presidential vote in 2024?” The artificial intelligence interlocutor then named Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Ohio as the biggest offenders, all of which are controlled by Republicans and have House delegations that skew…

The Democratic Party is whining about a new Texas Republican Party map released Wednesday that would turn the current 12-seat Republican advantage (25-13) in the House delegation to a 22-seat (30-8) advantage.  Democrats are promising to fight the new map in court and threatening to gerrymander their own states to give Democrats a similar partisan…

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts may already be the reigning Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, but according to Good Morning Football host Kyle Brandt, his next season just might be his best — all because Hurts was one of many NFL athletes who got married this offseason. “So many players got married this offseason,” said…

Author Anna Louie Sussman is both civil and thoughtful in her response to an earlier op-ed I wrote on feminism and fertility, but I am afraid, after this longer discussion, it appears there is less common ground between us than I originally thought. What first caught my eye in a recent op-ed Sussman wrote for…

Every year, when the National Center for Education Statistics publishes the Nation’s Report Card, it shows black students score well below their white counterparts. For example, in 2019, black students scored 30 points below white students in math, and in 2022, they scored 22 points behind in reading. Other data show that black students consistently…

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and nine other Democrats caved and voted with Senate Republicans to keep the government open this March. But if Congress approves President Donald Trump’s rescissions package this week, the pressure for Schumer to follow through on his shutdown threats will be even stronger this time around. “It is absurd to…

Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the adults that children “personally know” and see on a daily basis who have the most positive effect on children. And for boys, those role models are disappearing. Miller pieces…

Employment is up since President Donald Trump took office. But the surface numbers actually hide just how good the Trump economy has been for American workers. Overall, the number of employed people in the United States has increased by 1.5 million since January of this year. But that topline number includes both foreign-born and American-born…