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Steve Early is a NewsGuild/CWA member and longtime labor journalist.
Trump mocked veterans and privatized their health care. Biden honors them but hasn’t challenged Trump’s privatization policies.
As the Education Department, wisely, tries to reform the opaque, little-known accreditation world with proposed rules—and key negotiations this month—some stakeholders worry that the Trump administration will go too far.
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Overinvestment and risky financial engineering have made an AI crash more likely, says Vanderbilt’s Asad Ramzanali. Congress should take steps now to soften the blow.
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Gavin Newsom’s tragic mistake, the new era of Trumpian DEI, Amazon’s AI pricing algorithms, and Alan Dershowitz’s case for a third term. Plus, the mystery of Judy Blume, one town’s fight against ICE, the trusty A-10 Warthog jet, how Democrats can win on education again, and more.
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New survey data suggests that more Americans might see the value of a degree if schools simplified their pricing systems.
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Democrats have multiple paths to the Senate majority but losing their contrarian member would make every one of them harder.
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The same power that makes America capable of doing vast damage globally also enables it to do great good.
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Surveys show that large swaths of Americans, across parties and political beliefs, accept and even endorse political violence.
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