The Truth About Net Zero, at Last
The great and good of politics and business have converged on Dubai this week for the global climate conference known as COP28, and by now they must wish they hadn’t. The event has done the one thing such confabs are supposed never to do, which is expose the truth about climate change and the race […]
The California Budget Bust Arrives
Much like California’s climate cycle of storms and drought, the state’s progressive tax code yields revenue booms and busts. Now the bust is coming. After a $100 billion budget surplus two years ago, the Golden State is now staring at a $68 billion shortfall because the gusher of tax revenue from soaking the rich has […]
The EU Just Agreed Sweeping New Rules for AI
The European Union today agreed on the details of the AI Act, a far-reaching set of rules for the people building and using artificial intelligence. It’s a milestone law that, lawmakers hope, will create a blueprint for the rest of the world. After months of debate about how to regulate companies like OpenAI, lawmakers from […]
Free Trade Is Good for American Farmers Like Me
Trump is hopeless, but a candidate with a positive trade agenda could harvest farm-country votes. Source link
Notable & Quotable: The Interns Have Spoken
‘We urge the Biden-Harris Administration . . . to support a diplomatic solution that will put an end to the illegal occupation and the Israeli apartheid.’ Source link
There’s Life Yet in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Dec. 10, 1948, without a single dissenting vote (although Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the Soviet bloc countries abstained). Today that remarkable consensus, achieved in the wake of two world wars and unspeakable atrocities, is falling apart. Hope for global consensus on […]
Never Trumpers Never Learn
Their ‘dictator’ talk only invites more incompetent election meddling in 2024 and beyond. Source link
The Score: Spotify Technology, CVS Health, Alphabet and More Stocks That Defined the Week
Here are some of the major companies whose stocks moved on the week’s news. Source link
A tale of two very different Covid inquiries
In London, ministers have been in the spotlight whereas the Scottish inquiry has focused on the victims. Source link
Harvard President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism
Harvard’s president apologized for her testimony before Congress about how she responded to antisemitism on campus — another sign that the controversy over her remarks and similar comments by the presidents of M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania was not going away. “I am sorry,” Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, said in an interview that the […]