HeyJaredRonald Gruner
Award-winning author of We The Presidents and COVID WARS, Ronald Gruner discusses the issues that affect Americans today.
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Nobody Knows How AI Will Evolve. So I Asked. (opens the original)
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People are worried. Nobody knows how artificial intelligence will evolve. So I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok each to write a short story about how AI might evolve over the next five years. For details and all three stories, click here.ChatGPT’s story was my favorite, and I’ve published it below with no changes (reading time: six minutes). It’s a mixture of reality, philosophy, and fantasy—the very definition of good science fiction.How much of ChatGPT’s story is future reality versus fantasy?<
Violent Crime Hits a 55-Year Low (opens the original)
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With so much discouraging news in America today—unending wars, the national debt, inflation, bitter politics—one positive trend doesn’t get enough attention: America’s falling crime rate.In 2025, the United States had the lowest rate of violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) in more than fifty years. That year, the rate fell 9.3 percent from the previous year, the largest annual decrease since the FBI began keeping national crime statistics in 1936. President Trump attributed
Should Congress Let AI Fix the National Debt? (opens the original)
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Imagine a family paying nearly 20 percent of its gross income in credit-card interest, yet seeing its credit-card debt increase every year. Well, that’s the federal government today. In 2025, Washington collected $5.24 trillion in revenue and paid $970 billion in interest on the national debt; yet the national debt increased by nearly $2.2 trillion.If the recent trend continues, by 2031 the national debt will be $50 trillion.As I discussed in last week’s Substack, the most practical way to reduc
September 11, 2001: In Memory of the 2,977 Victims (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago today, 2,977 people—and eleven unborn children—were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Today, we honor their names.Gordon M. Aamoth, Jr. | Edelmiro Abad | Marie Rose Abad | Andrew Anthony Abate | Vincent Paul Abate | Laurence Christopher Abel | Alona Abraham | William F. Abrahamson | Richard Anthony Aceto | Heinrich Bernhard Ackermann | Paul Acquaviva | Christian Adams | Donald LaRoy Adams | Patrick Adams | Shannon Lewis Adams | Stephen George Adams | Ig
$40 Trillion in Debt, Yet Washington Shrugs (opens the original)
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As I write this, every twenty-one seconds the U.S. national debt increases by one million dollars. Have an hour lunch and it’s up $171 million. Go to bed and wake up eight hours later and the United States is another $1.4 billion in debt.Yet, no one in Washington seems concerned. On August 18 as the U.S. debt climbed past $40 trillion, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, even President Trump never acknowledged the crossing. The strongest reaction came from Treasury Sec
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