At Upwards of $300,000 a Year, Police Officers Start to Out-Earn Professors

In San Francisco, the median police officer earns $301,000 a year in compensation, and the top-earning cop took home $872,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. In Los Angeles, 23 police employees earned more than $400,000 in 2025. Some were deputy chiefs but others were sergeants or ordinary officers who worked a lot of overtime, data from the city controller’s office indicates.

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‘Dog Rape’ New York Times Columnist Delivers Another Dud as Harvard Prepares to Honor Him

Nicholas Kristof, the Israeli-dog-rape fantasizing New York Times columnist whose father fought on the Nazi side in World War II and wrote a letter to the Times defending a Vichy war criminal, is back to his old tricks, with a new column that distorts reality about Judea and Samaria while also conceding that even getting rid of Prime Minister Netyanyahu won’t satisfy Kristof or other bitter critics of Israel.

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Judge in Harvard Antisemitism Case Was Anti-Israel, Anti-War Activist, McGovern Campaign Aide

The federal judge who has dismissed a series of antisemitism cases—by the Trump administration against Harvard, by Jewish students at MIT, and by a Harvard Business School student, Yoav Segev, who was assaulted by anti-Israel protesters—turns out to have his own history as a student anti-Israel and anti-war activist.

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Harvard researchers just found out the dark truth about how to simulate the entire world



A massive system has been built to replicate how humans react to products, apps, and websites, without needing humans at all.

Researchers at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their network has the ability to simulate the world with "persona agents."

'The agents successfully expressed ... their assigned traits 91.5% of the time.'

Based off a core set of just under 600,000 "human-grounded" personas, coupled with 400,000 synthetic records, the group at MatrAIx says they have found a way to simulate real reactions to questions, products, and more.

The approximately one million personas were used as the basis to create an AI bot population of 8.3 billion, which MatrAIx says can be run like a simulation and act as one giant focus group.

This allows companies to use the simulated personalities to garner reactions to price changes, for example. MatrAIx tested this theory by running its simulation to see whether or not one million people would still buy a 12-pack of Coca-Cola after a $2 increase. The simulation determined 61% of the population still would.

In addition to evaluating hesitation after a price increase, the bots simulated willingness to continue after an AI assistant fails its task as well as latency tolerance for websites, meaning how long a person will use a slow website before abandoning it.

Other examples provided included evaluating a mental health chatbot or shopping on Amazon for an espresso machine under $200 to see which product the AI bots choose and why.

The approach extends to social media apps. Instagram was used as an example where a bot can search for recipes and then watch and save preferred videos. It was explained that the program could have millions of bots doing this at the same time.

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There's just one problem. The agents in the massive simulation cannot be wholly trusted to act the way humans would. As with any AI agent, there is a possibility that an agent in the world sim could fail to perform as instructed or desired.

In Harvard's controlled study of 400 trials, measuring the bots' adherence to 10 behavioral attributes, the results were good but not perfect. "The agents successfully expressed or correctly suppressed their assigned traits 91.5% of the time," the researchers wrote.

MatrAIx, headed by Xiaomin Li (Harvard) and Yuexing Hao (MIT), conducted over 16,000 evaluation trials across eight different types of tasks. They used three large-language models for their studies: Claude Opus 4.8, Chat GPT 5.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5.

Human evaluations of the persona quality, however, were actually lower, listed as an average of 4.135 out of 5, which equates to about 83%.

This roughly 8.5% rate of agents simply failing to adhere to a persona could have large implications for customers who use the bots on a large scale. In the example provided for Coca-Cola consumption, that carries the possibility of 85,000 bots not answering accurately.

But the deeper problem the study confirmed is that Earth's billions of human beings can't be accurately simulated by AI agents programmed to be well-behaved. It's impossible to model and predict human behavior if the agents standing in for the humans aren't allowed to behave in all the devious, dangerous, and flawed ways individuals and groups do.

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That raises the dark prospect that entities or governments seeking ultimate predictive power will have to build large-scale simulators where agents representing real people are allowed to have antisocial, criminal, sinful, or even evil traits and behaviors.

The alternative, deeper human research, is nowhere near as cheap and swift as AI modeling. Most research groups seem to say that human focus groups are not effective at garnering mass public appeal anyway, while at the same time surveys can be a bit more time-consuming. The trade-off is that they are still human.

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Judge Who Ruled Harvard Failed Its Jewish Students Dismisses a Trump Case

Judge Richard Stearns, who in August of 2024 found that “Harvard failed its Jewish students,” has dismissed a different antisemitism lawsuit filed in March 2026 by the federal government against Harvard. 

In explaining his decision, Stearns, a Harvard Law School graduate nominated to the bench by President Clinton, said the government focused “almost entirely on incidents that took place during the 2023-2024 school year.” Stearns said that “Only three incidents are alleged to have occurred after this period, all of which took place nearly a full year later (and more than one full academic year before this case was filed) in March of 2025. Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day.”

The decision is a legal win for Harvard, but it does not mean the university is in the clear in respect to antisemitism or broader pressure from the federal government or from public opinion, which has turned sharply against “elite” higher education. 

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If You Didn’t Get A Great Education, It’s Never Been Easier To Repair It

Those of us in the majority of Americans who have been deprived of an excellent education have never had more opportunities to remediate ourselves.

Senators Aim to Ban Legacy Preference in College Admissions

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing new federal legislation to ban universities from giving admissions preferences to children of alumni or donors. The "Merit-based Educational Reforms and Institutional Transparency Act," or Merit Act, was announced Thursday by three Republicans—Todd Young of Indiana, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and John Kennedy of Louisiana—and three Democrats—Tim […]

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Trump Admin Finally Cracks Down On Foreign Students Subverting America

For half a century foreigners could enter graduate programs and take many years, far more than four, to complete their doctoral programs while remaining in the U.S. without any deadline to leave.

Harvard Touts ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor, Palestinian Liberation Erotic Poetry Journal as Evidence of Progress Against Jew-Hate

Adding a course taught by a professor who accuses Israel of genocide. Hiring another professor who describes his own work as "counter-Zionist." Launching a student journal of erotic poetry and "support for Palestinian Liberation." Appointing another scholar to a visiting professorship that already existed and has been refilled annually for nearly a decade. Adding a course on antisemitism taught by a professor who backs a definition of antisemitism embraced by boycott-Israel advocates.

Harvard and ten of the nation’s biggest-name appellate lawyers are brazenly trying to pass all these steps off to federal judges as proof that the university is moving to address what even the university itself concedes in its latest court filing has been "disturbing, offensive, and vile treatment of Jewish students."

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'You should have been aborted': Why Harvard students greet my pro-life testimony with hate



As I've spoken on the topics of adoption and abortion all across this nation, woke professors, miseducated student activists, politicians, and fake feminists have told me that I should have been aborted. It isn't always in those exact words, but it's always the exact sentiment.

I heard it most bluntly at Harvard.

We live in a culture that says if you're unplanned, you will be unwanted and unloved. It's simply untrue.

I'd been invited to speak at one of the inaugural events for Harvard Law Students for Life. The night before, lying in my hotel room, my mind kept betraying me: I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. I don't come from an Ivy League school. How could I possibly hold my ground on Harvard soil?

Speak, man

The next morning, standing in the shower, still telling myself I couldn't do this, I looked up to shift the water and reached for the nozzle — and just laughed. Printed on the showerhead was a single word: SPEAKMAN. Speak, man. I'd never seen that brand before in my life, but it branded my heart with a divine confidence. I was made to do this.

The room, when I arrived, was packed. The Harvard professor invited to offer the opposing view showed up late with nothing prepared. I shared my personal story, dispelled the myth of the "unwanted" child, and laid out the numbers: More black babies are aborted than born alive in some American cities; abortion rates among blacks is up to six times higher than among whites — a gap poverty and insurance rates alone can't explain.

They didn't like my take on history, equality, or abortion's violent inequity. The hour-long Q&A that followed was a cacophony of ad hominem attacks and jeers that had almost nothing to do with the subject matter. The professor called my adoption story — a story where a woman proved she was stronger than her circumstances and chose life for her child — "a cute story."

Afterward, several students came down to share more of their animosity. One called me a vulgar name. Another asked how it felt to be a puppet. And one activist leaned in and told me, flatly, that I should have been aborted.

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Hate, not debate

At another Christian college, a dean pulled me aside after a similar talk and told me, "Thank you so much for that. You handled that with so much grace." Two days later, his own department sent a school-wide email denouncing me, claiming my comments made students "feel unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe." Truth, it turns out, is unsafe. Victimhood is potent.

This has been my experience at too many colleges and universities. They want to hate, not debate. Higher learning has become mired learning from coast to coast. It's not every school, not every professor, not every student. But it's endemic to academia. The solution is courage. Like fear, it's contagious. Unlike fear, it illuminates, educates, and motivates.

Brokenness into breakthrough

I can never let lies like that faze me. My own story is reflected in so many other lives the world is quick to write off — lives that need someone to care, someone to speak, someone to act. I fight for the most marginalized among the marginalized, because that was once me.

We live in a culture that says if you're unplanned, you will be unwanted and unloved. It's simply untrue. My life began in violence but became one of victory. I'm forever grateful my birth mom didn't remove me from the frame of life. That painfully courageous decision sent ripples through time — to my own marriage, to my four children, to family I didn't even know existed until last fall.

None of us can control the circumstances of our conception. None of us can control much of what happens in our lives for that matter. God turns brokenness into breakthrough all the time. How we rise when we’re faced with the seemingly insurmountable shows the true beauty and resilience of our humanity. In a world that is constantly searching for meaning, this simple truth is sometimes the most evasive: We’re all meant to be.

This article was adapted from Ryan Bomberger’s new memoir, "Should Have Been Aborted."