NotableWhy are we so freaked out about A.I.? “Americans’ pessimism about A.I. is largely rational, about a technology tailor-made to crack their crumbling and antiquated social compact.” — Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist who writes about the economy What it takes to make Ivy League educations affordable. “A smarter tax would give many more institutions the chance to make a choice: either use their endowment to increase access and diversity, or pay the tax to offset the cost of hoarding opportunity for the wealthy.” — James S. Murphy, a senior fellow at Class Action, a nonprofit reimagining the role of elite colleges and universities in society, and Ryan Cieslikowski, the director of Class Action Why does our political system produce so much stagnation and corruption? “If the Democrats challenge Trump with the products of their own one-party rule, with a candidate who can’t even begin to speak the language of the swing voter, much less the language of the disaffected Republican, then we’re setting ourselves up for yet another lurch back to the competing extreme.” — David French, an Opinion columnist Spotlight
It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating?Two hundred and fifty years in, Opinion writers offer 16 reasons the national experiment endures. ICYMIThe left is surging again. What has it learned? “The Democratic version of the Tea Party is here, with dramatic implications for the midterms and possibly the next presidential election.” — Michelle Goldberg, Opinion columnist More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “Thomas L. Friedman on the Clash at the Core of the Iran Deal”
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