Syndicated Columnists
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On disinformation: Mirroring the past, but harder to fightMay 22, 2024 4:07 pm - In my first diplomatic posting, one of my first tasks was to pay a call on a Bangladeshi publisher whose newspaper had printed a story that the AIDS virus had been manufa...
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Biden v. Trump debates, the second time aroundMay 22, 2024 4:00 am - The campaigns of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to two debates in 2024 — the first on June 27, the second on Sept. 10 — while signaling...
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Educators must embrace AI as a supplemental learning toolMay 22, 2024 4:00 am - When the 2024 spring semester ended earlier this month, I found myself thinking more about how technology is changing college classrooms. The traditional lecture that my...
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Diners and AIMay 20, 2024 12:17 pm - Artificial Intelligence is a huge concern among people in my business because first of all, we think we're gonna lose our jobs, plus we think AI will produce mediocre wri...
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The World's — and the Pacific Rim's — Disastrous Population ImplosionMay 20, 2024 12:11 pm - Will the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question posed to suggest an affirmative answer. Fewer people, it was claimed, woul...
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Why no politician can ‘fix’ prices (and why that’s OK)May 18, 2024 10:04 am - Prices are threads stitching together the fabric of our economy. They guide countless producers, here and abroad, to meet the most urgent demands of countless consumers. ...
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On Middle East, slogans mean nothing without understanding historyMay 18, 2024 10:02 am - After a year as a professor at Columbia University, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton probably knows what she's talking about when she says young people “don't kn...
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Trump faces troubles, but Biden campaign is dead in the waterMay 16, 2024 8:54 pm - On Nov. 5, 2023, the New York Times published a story headlined, "Trump Leads in 5 Critical States as Voters Blast Biden, Times/Siena Poll Finds." Focusing on the states ...
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What voters don’t know … yetMay 16, 2024 6:15 pm - The problem with early polls is just that. They are taken early, and they are a snapshot of what voters know and think at the time they are taken. Which may be wrong. Bec...
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American gold: At age 100, Lt. Benjamin inspires stillMay 15, 2024 7:47 pm - If 100 can be said to be the new 70, Lt. Alfred D. Benjamin of the Army Air Corps' 384th Bomb Group has to be the expression's poster boy. Ramrod-straight and sharp as th...