NotableIs Susan Collins’s luck running out? “Her national-vibes-versus-local-results construct is, at best, outmoded. These days, Ms. Collins is not delivering for Maine so much as she is delivering up Maine to the Trump agenda.” — Michelle Cottle, an Opinion writer A.I. is dangerous for science, too. “If OpenAI and Anthropic really want to help advance science, there is one obvious way they can do so: They can spend a tiny fraction of their vast fortunes to fund the kind of humble but essential research that’s increasingly starved for resources.” — Zeynep Tufekci, a contributing Opinion writer The National Book Awards are no longer national. “The bald politicization of the nation’s highest literary prizes is achieving several forms of injustice at once.” — Bret Stephens, an Opinion columnist Spotlight
The New ExilesThe Trump administration’s policy of deporting migrants to third countries is undermining a bedrock notion of international law. ICYMIGermany can get out of this mess. “How do you go about transforming an aging society that is deeply skeptical of change, with the far right breathing down your neck?” — Anna Sauerbrey, an editor and writer at the German weekly Die Zeit More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians”
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