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September 11, 2026 
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| Kristian Hammerstad |
Notable
The A.I. threat is real. “The more I learn about these rogue systems, the more I am reminded of the first two months of 2020, when a small group of epidemiologists was attempting to raise alarms about Covid.”
— Stephen Witt, the author of “The Thinking Machine,” a history of the A.I. giant Nvidia
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Donald Trump is not going anywhere. “The eternal question is whether — or when — his party, and the rest of America, can at last tune him out, despite all the flash and sparkles and endless refrains of ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’”
— Michelle Cottle, an Opinion writer
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What are we doing to our world of wonder? “What if 50 years from now, having plundered America the Beautiful and destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness because so many species have left us?”
— Terry Tempest Williams, an author whose most recent book is “The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary”
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How a Heroic Response to 9/11 Went Awry
Twenty-five years later, it is important to step back from today’s cynicism and remember the national unity in the days after the attacks, the editorial board writes.
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Re: “The War on Terror Did Not Fail”
| Hpower CT | With all due respect to Mr. French and others who served admirably in the military, I have a different view. The Iraq War and its consequences across the Middle East and Africa triggered among other things a flow of immigrants fleeing the violence into Europe an elsewhere. It helped ignite the populist right which is a huge threat to representative democracy and threatens a resurgence of autocratic rule. I also hold that the massive cost in life and treasure was disproportionate. American lives in my view, are not more sacred or valuable than the lives of others, especially innocents in Iraq, Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Russia or elsewhere. The Iraq war was excessive and motivated more by anger and revenge, not clear headed statesmanship with serious strategic and moral calculus. We Americans tend to view all our conflicts with lenses tinted back to World War ll, a necessary conflict that had moral justifications, though aspects of the conflict on all sides, were off the charts brutal and morally excessive. This is not to diminish the real efforts of those directly involved in the Iraq conflict. But I am not sure that "winning" is the right descriptor. |
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