NotableThe Justice Department’s pursuit of a mail carrier. “What’s different and scarier now is that the Justice Department’s leadership is working together to validate the president’s election lies from the top down. Turning fiction into fact is now part of the job description.” — Liz Oyer, a writer covering the rule of law A.I. is a force for good. “History suggests that innovation’s effects on the economy can take years, even decades, to play out.” — Steven Rattner, a contributing Opinion writer Trump is repeating one of Biden’s biggest mistakes. “We believed that if we laid out the evidence clearly enough, people would see what we saw. They didn’t, and we didn’t adjust to meet them where they were.” — Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary from 2022 to 2025 Spotlight
China Has Never Felt This AngryUnable to question the government, the Chinese are taking their economic frustrations out on one another. ICYMIStop talking about A.I. as if it’s human. “To have any hope of coping with A.I., we need to analyze these tools’ output literally, not speculate about how close to human they are.” — Leif Weatherby, the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University Listen (or Watch)
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