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What the News and the Pews Have in Common

How the internet is making everything nondenominational.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/religion-internet.html?smid=em-share

The Political Failure of Bidenomics

The divide between classes can’t be healed with economic remedies alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/bidenomics-working-class.html?smid=em-share

Trump’s G.O.P. Is a Confederacy of Fakers

Lindsey Graham, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and other Republicans are waving the white flag of surrender on Ukraine, all at Trump’s behest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/ukraine-trump-republicans.html?smid=em-share

The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned

I ask my writing students to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/radical-empathy-fiction.html?smid=em-share

How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails

Did tech titans have an option? I thought so.
https://wapo.st/48wjKli

Maybe so, but it was not an unimaginable consequence. French philosopher Paul Virilio has a quote I think about a lot: “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”

The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy

We have to get past the idea that political conflicts are fights between good and evil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/democracy-good-evil.html?smid=em-share