Author: Jim

The Supreme Court’s Disorienting Elevation of Religion

The country will feel the impact of this sharp shift in the years ahead — and the court may not be done.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opinion/supreme-court-religion.html?smid=em-share

America Is Living on Borrowed Money

The nation needs to chart a new course on federal debt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/debt-crisis.html?smid=em-share

How to Stave Off Constitutional Extinction

The best way to save it is to amend it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/constitutional-amendments-american-history.html?smid=em-share

With End of Affirmative Action, a Push for a New Tool: Adversity Scores

To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/affirmative-action-university-of-california-davis.html?smid=em-share

The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence

Technology forged by private markets won’t solve the world’s problems. It will only amplify them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/artificial-intelligence-danger.html?smid=em-share

What’s Really Going On in Russia?

The Russia scholar Stephen Kotkin discusses how Russia’s war in Ukraine and the recent Wagner mutiny are shattering Putin’s ‘mystique of power.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-stephen-kotkin.html?smid=em-share

https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/06/29/obesity-blame-food-industry-dieting/

Prigozhin’s Mutiny Against Putin’s Reign of Lies

But do ordinary Russians want to know the truth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/opinion/russia-putin-prigozhin-ukraine.html?smid=em-share

Why Biden Isn’t Getting the Credit He Deserves

It’s the national psychology, not the economy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/opinion/biden-economy-inflation-plan.html?smid=em-share