Month: February 2024

The G.O.P. Bumper Sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third.

How the country and the world are defined is in Congress’s hands.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/immigration-senate-house.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share

In Poland, I Saw What a Second Trump Term Could Do to America

Being in Warsaw was inspiring and sobering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/abortion-ban-poland-democracy.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share

Trump, Immigration and the Lump of Labor Fallacy

Neither machines nor immigrants take away Americans’ jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/trump-immigration-lump-of-labor.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share

The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/republicans-congress-immigration-deal/677357/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYfVTd2ZlwJX9v9cvNPREK0g&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate the power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.  

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZWt6QRY6ssqTXtbawrCxa4&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Would you like an A? Here, have one. Or five. That’s how unexacting secondary schools seed college campuses with students spoiled by unearned flattery.

https://wapo.st/490o9xE