Author: Jim

A Big Strategic Realignment in the Middle East May Be Coming

Thomas L. Friedman on what he hopes a “Biden Doctrine” for the region will look like.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/biden-doctrine-mideast-realignment.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share

The G.O.P. Bumper Sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third.

How the country and the world are defined is in Congress’s hands.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/immigration-senate-house.html?bgrp=a&smid=em-share

The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/republicans-congress-immigration-deal/677357/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYfVTd2ZlwJX9v9cvNPREK0g&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate the power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.  

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZWt6QRY6ssqTXtbawrCxa4&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social