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Darrell M. West
April 15, 2025
Vanessa Williamson, Ellis Chen
April 15, 2025
Eduardo Levy Yeyati, Virginia Robano
April 11, 2025
Vivian C. Wong, Elizabeth Tipton, Jessaca Spybrook
April 10, 2025
If you looked on average at how professors at the Ivy League voted, there would be a majority [Democratic] … and so there’s this perception on the right that these colleges don’t have..."
Jon Valant spoke about how COVID-19 triggered a school choice renaissance with The 74 Million.
People don’t trust government. The lack of trust in government, plus the disinformation in this echo chamber of information, leads to vaccine hesitancy.
If you’re trying to save money, you don’t cut the place revenues come from.
Chinasa T. Okolo spoke to Semafor about the first-ever global AI summit on Africa, held in Rwanda last week with cabinet officials from 20 African countries.
Tom Wheeler spoke to Bloomberg Technology about how the Trump administration’s approach to tariffs could shake up the relationship between the U.S. and Europe.
Absent action by Congress, today or going forward, the writing of these bills does not—to me—say that there’s a legal way for an administration to just pick up one office and put it in..."
Nicol Turner Lee spoke with Comcast about the opportunities and risks of developing AI technologies, along with how to ensure its applications benefit everyone.
[FCC Chairman Brendan Carr] is exercising rogue power to personalize just what the public interest is. This is a get-right with the chairman. And he never defines what get-right means.
If you change dramatically the cultural expectations of what the executive branch will do to judges when judges issue orders that it doesn’t like, then it’s not obvious what prevents..."
Jon Valant was interviewed on CBS Evening News about the executive order aiming to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.Â
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