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As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits

Worried about the risks of robot warfare, some countries want new legal constraints, but the U.S. and other major powers are resistant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/us/politics/ai-drones-war-law.html?smid=em-share

A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Why I Am a Liberal

Perhaps more than ever, there is an urgent need for a clear understanding of liberalism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/opinion/cass-sunstein-why-liberal.html?smid=em-share

The Startling Evidence on Learning Loss Is In

The effects of the pandemic on children are persistent and require urgent attention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/pandemic-school-learning-loss.html?smid=em-share

Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?

The political strategist Mike Podhorzer discusses what polls can — and can’t — say about 2024.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-michael-podhorzer.html?smid=em-share

But the act of making it seem like if this could all change if we just had a different person at the top of this is fantasy. It’s just fantasy. And that’s part of why I think it’s a real problem that important media institutions support the idea that our problems are as superficial as who we put on the ballot as different human beings, when we need to solve the underlying institutional problems.