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Opinion Today
December 5, 2025
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This is the kind of bigotry we rejected decades ago. “We should never go back to a system that made collective judgments about the worthiness of specific nationalities to immigrate to the United States — particularly not based on an incident involving a single person.”

— Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia

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A bursting bubble would be great for A.I. “A course-corrected A.I. would help us tackle new challenges — making scientific discoveries, enabling medical breakthroughs — rather than merely refining what we already know.”

— Carl Benedikt Frey, an associate professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford

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What Zillow won’t tell you. “Climate-risk scores might lower listing prices, which affect what real estate agents earn. But suppressing verified risk information is dangerous.”

— John Marshall, C.E.O. of a nonprofit marketing firm focused on climate change

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Trump knows he’s failing. Cue the bigotry. “What keeps me up at night is that people who share the identities I hold — Black, Somali, hijabi, immigrant — will suffer the consequences of his words, which so often go unchecked by members of the Republican Party and other elected officials.”

— Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota

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