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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez You Don’t Know
Six days after winning election to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did what so many young progressives do while visiting the nation’s capital: She went to a rally. It was 2018, and Democratic dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump was a ...
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Robert Kagan Takes the Long View on Trumpism
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Midnight, at the kitchen table, with a bowl of cornflakes. How do you organize your books? Umm. I own about 6,000 books and it’s a bit of a disaster. I’ve been paying research ...
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The Biden Campaign’s High-Powered Effort to Define R.F.K. Jr.
Pretty much every presidential election includes a smattering of third-party and independent candidates — minor players who have slim to no chance of winning but who can seriously damage the electoral chances of the major-party nominees. This year ...
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In a Portland Library, Activists Fortify for a Standoff
At Portland State University’s crescent-shaped library, students can normally peer through floor-to-ceiling windows at the leafy green spaces below. But the library, under occupation since Monday by pro-Palestinian protesters, now has been turned ...
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Why Are Movies so Bad at Making Civil War Look Scary?
The filmmaker has made it clear that “Civil War” is a warning. Instead, the ugliness of war comes across as comforting thrills.
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Trump Is Flirting With Quack Economics
More than 30 years ago, the economists Rudiger Dornbusch (one of my mentors) and Sebastian Edwards wrote a classic paper on what they called “macroeconomic populism.” Their motivating examples were inflationary outbreaks under left-wing regimes in ...
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What Students Read Before They Protest
When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as a “core curriculum” that was really nothing of the sort. Instead of giving students a set of foundational courses and assignments, a shared ...
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me … What?
If the American experiment finally decides to call it quits, how might a national breakup begin? Perhaps California moves toward secession after the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the state’s strict gun control measures. Or Texas rebels when ...
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Criminalizing Homelessness Won’t Make It Go Away
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTCriminalizing Homelessness Won’t Make It Go Away April 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ETShare full articleBy Mark Horvath, Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse Mr. Horvath started the YouTube channel Invisible People. Mr ...
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What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial intelligence more and more data? He and his colleagues decided to ...