Europe’s Integration Imperative (ALFRED KAMMER)

The case for closer economic union has become more compelling as external challenges multiply. Europe faces the most daunting set of challenges since the Cold War. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the first major war of aggression on European soil since 1945, has forced a fundamental questioning of old certainties. Geopolitical ructions have shaken supply chains, …

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Federal vs. state power at issue in a hearing over Trump’s election overhaul executive order (Leah Willingham)

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic state attorneys general on Friday sought to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock — the separation of powers. The top law enforcement officials from 19 states filed a federal lawsuit after the Republican president signed the executive order in March, arguing …

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Medicaid Is Overdue for a Big Beautiful Overhaul (John F Cogan)

The program’s funding mechanism lends itself to bloat and inefficiency. The Senate can set this right. National health-insurance coverage has been a top priority for the American left for decades. Medicaid has been the main vehicle for reaching this goal since 1965. The program now accounts for more than half of the 150 million Americans …

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FUNDING BIOTECHNOLOGY’S FOUNDATIONS TO FUEL PRIVATE SECTOR INNOVATIONS (Drew Endy)

WHY BIOTECHNOLOGY MATTERS AS A TECHNOLOGYBiology is the next-to-mature general purpose technology.4 Anything whose production orbehavior we can learn to encode in DNA becomes growable or deployable when and whereneeded. We already use biotechnology to grow essential medicines, foods, fuels, and somematerials.5 Going forward we can leverage biotechnology to help grow data storage systems,6electronics,7 energetics, …

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A Moving History (Ian Goldin, IMF)

Migration has propelled human progress for hundreds of thousands of years. The history of migration is the story of humanity and its progress. It’s a story of peaceful cooperation and exchange, but also of violence. Terrible things have been done to compel people to migrate against their will. Yet despite the suffering, migration remains the …

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The End of the Long American Century: Trump and the Sources of U.S. Power (Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Jr.)

President Donald Trump has tried both to impose the United States on the world and to distance the country from it. He began his second term by brandishing American hard power, threatening Denmark over the control of Greenland, and suggesting he would take back the Panama Canal. He successfully wielded threats of punitive tariffs to …

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Extracting Knowledge Graphs From Text With GPT4o (Thu Vu)

This is a very helpful technique to understand ideas in any text. I used this charting idea when I was a student, especially in high school and college. I saw others spending their time in libraries and homes or dorms, studying day and night. I pay attention during lectures and simultaneously create a mental map …

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