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"The answer for a prosperous future is not concentrated government power," Mario Ottero writes about Senator Bernie Sanders's A.I. sovereign wealth fund proposal in a letter to The Times.
Surely the $216 million that Tom Steyer spent on his failed campaign for governor of California “could have been better spent on something — anything — else to help Mr. Steyer’s fellow Americans,” Michelle Cottle writes.
“Trump is a danger to everyone whether he controls Congress or not. Democrats are a danger to themselves if they follow Republicans into the moral gutter, which is what the Platner candidacy represents to me,” our columnist Bret Stephens says to Frank Bruni.
“You don’t achieve balanced, intelligent regulation by silencing debate — you get it by engaging seriously and earning trust,” John O’Farrell writes about internal threats to Silicon Valley.
To gauge the mood on the eve of the World Cup, we asked three writers — an American, a Mexican, a Canadian — what the competition means to them and their countries.
We can enhance athletic performance, lose weight with a pill and take psychedelics to alter consciousness. When does all this self-optimization become self-obsession? The biotech entrepreneur Christian Angermayer chats with Ross Douthat about scientific breakthroughs that could extend our lives.
“The gospel being preached by some of today’s tech barons appears to be, at least in part, a kind of justification for the existence of a billionaire class,” Kim Phillips-Fein writes.
“The fact that we’re so accustomed to Trump’s behavior that even egregious misconduct barely raises an eyebrow helps demonstrate that Trump isn’t just reshaping American policy; in many ways he’s reshaping the American people,” our columnist David French writes.
“No disrespect to My Brother Wemby, but he’s going down like Kareem and Wilt did,” Spike Lee, the filmmaker and lifelong New York Knicks fan, writes. “Peace and love.”
In theory, Kathy Ruemmler, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, “should have been the last person to fall for Mr. Epstein’s charms,” writes Ankush Khardori, who sat down with the lawyer for her first and only interviews since her inclusion in the Epstein files became public.
Is there nothing voters won’t forgive?
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Pro-A.I. groups are spending gobs of cash to influence political campaigns. That’s terrible news for us all.
That she, of all people, looked past his 2008 conviction tells you everything you need to know about how unreliable and corroded the legal world has become.
