ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · ACADEMIC INTEGRITY · WORKFORCE SKILLS
A UCLA student sits for an online final with a camera watching, a
mirror behind her, and her arms positioned so the professor can
see she is not secretly consulting a machine.¹
That may have begun as academic integrity. By the time it gets to
mirrors, crossed arms, hands behind heads, suspicion over Google
Docs timestamps, and students building an alibi for every draft,
it has become something else. It has become training in
distrust.¹
This is one of the stranger things about the arrival of
artificial intelligence. The same country that cannot wait to
sell every office worker a productivity tool is teaching many
students that the same tool is contraband. The same employers who…
A Good Exit From a Bad Iran
War
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS · NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY
The U.S.-Iran memorandum ends
active conflict and reopens the
Strait of Hormuz but defers key
nuclear issues for future…
Portsmouth Civic Roundup:
Energy, Housing, Historic
Preservation, and Governance…
LOCAL GOVERNANCE · ENERGY POLICY
Portsmouth’s June 2026 civic
discussions addressed
challenges in energy pricing,
housing affordability, historic
preservation, cemetery
maintenance, school governance,
and financial.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
rarely changes by thunderclap.
It changes when an electricity
rate moves by a few cents per
kilowatt-hour, when a committee…
AI IMPACT · SKILLED TRADES
As AI advances in office tasks,
skilled trades remain essential
for hands-on work requiring
physical presence and technical…
“That’s a Bit Crazy, Eh?”
AMERICAN POLITICS · DEMOCRACY
The article examines the
complexities and contradictions…
The Statehouse Is Where
Abstractions Get a Bill Number
STATE LEGISLATION · GUN POLICY
New Hampshire lawmakers
grappled with implementing gun…
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
Many Americans are disengaging
from political news due to
fatigue, while government
oversight and civil service…
CLEAN ENERGY · GENE THERAPY
Despite ongoing global
challenges, incremental
advances in clean energy,
medicine, technology, and…