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Mississippi Opens the Playbook for Dismantling a Free Press
A politician’s defamation case against a small Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization is designed to drain its financial resources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/mississippi-press-freedom-republicans.html?smid=em-share
What Happens to Gifted Children
Intelligence strongly correlates with positive educational and career outcomes, but it is not everything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/gifted-children-intelligence.html?smid=em-share
What J.D. Vance Believes
In a long conversation, the first-term senator from Ohio talks about Trump, populism, the 2020 election, Ukraine and the Republican V.P. slot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/jd-vance-interview.html?smid=em-share
Trump Would Be Long Gone if Only We Could …
It was never going to be easy to get voters to abandon their hero.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/opinion/trump-biden-democrats-strategy.html?smid=em-share
A centuries-long tradition of authoritarian rule and disregard for individual rights underpins Vladimir Putin’s imperial project.
The Biden administration’s steep new tariffs are a rational response to Xi Jinping’s aggressive economic policies. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/china-tariffs-electric-vehicles-trade-war/678385/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYeCl13Gb-XolC2ZUvXD51wk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Former Wisconsin Prison Warden and Employees Charged in Inmate Deaths
Inmates had complained about a monthslong lockdown that cut them off from family members and timely medical care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/waupun-prison-warden-deaths.html?smid=em-share
Boys Get Everything, Except the Thing That’s Most Worth Having
Modern boyhood is an apprenticeship in loneliness.
Will A.I. Be a Creator or a Destroyer of Worlds?
The implications for politics reach well beyond deep fakes.
Artificial intelligence, data centers and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s aging power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up.