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An Unusually Optimistic Conversation with Bernie Sanders
“But Sanders’s two presidential campaigns are part of the reason that the Democratic Party had moved, and the politics of the moment had changed. And so I’ve wondered what Sanders makes of this moment. Is it a triumph? A disappointment? A beginning?” (The Ezra Klein Show, 2021).
A Global Green Deal
“By strengthening its emissions-reduction targets and investing heavily in clean energy, greentech, and research and development, the European Union has positioned itself as a global climate leader. It now must continue to lead by example while also doing more to help others achieve their climate ambitions” (Ursula Von Der Leyen and Werner Hoyer, 2021).
The U.S. and China Finally Get Real With Each Other
The U.S.-China meeting “would have been a failure if it had resulted in general declarations to cooperate while minimizing competition...organizing the relationship around cooperation is theoretically desirable as an end goal but will be unattainable for the foreseeable future, given the unfolding reality of an assertive, repressive China and a defiant America” (Thomas Wright, 2021).
Another Big Step Toward Digitizing Our Lives
“With NFTs, we’ve come yet another step closer to fully digitizing our lives...they are digital files that are stored using a technology called blockchain, which is essentially a digital ledger. But...NFTs are not interchangeable with one another, because of their unique digital assets as well as important digital authentication” (Kara Swisher, 2021).
Rising to the Challenge of China
“When it comes to China...Mr. Trump was a disastrous leader in so many ways, but he is widely seen as having correctly diagnosed the problem with China, even as he bungled the solution. Mr. Biden, who understands the importance of allies, has a far better chance of getting it right” (Farah Stockman, 2021).
Green Markets Won’t Save Us
“Although markets are uniquely powerful mechanisms for conveying information and altering behavior, they are ultimately social systems that rest on incomplete and ever-shifting foundations. That makes them an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change” (Katharina Pistor, 2021).
What Conspiracy Theorists Don’t Believe
Concerning conspiracy theories, “When someone has dismissed the obvious facts, repeating them will not persuade him to see sense. But when people are given time and space to explain themselves, they may start to spot the gaps in their own knowledge or arguments” (Tim Hartford, 2021).
One Year Later, We Still Have No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Destroying ecosystems and the environment “ is the only truly sustainable vaccine against the next pandemic. In other words, it’s time that we stop looking for intelligent life on Mars and start manifesting it here on planet earth” (Friedman 2021).
The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided
“Tech companies...recognize that inaction toward certain crucial types of misinformation puts them at greater risk of regulation...yet, if any single platform acts too forcefully, it risks provoking the wrath of the hyper-partisan influencers...Social-media companies find themselves in the position of having to act decisively and collectively—and yet, collective action begets further allegations of collusion” (Renée DiResta, 2021).
Trump and the Trapped Country
“If the fear behind the strongman thesis was the eclipse of democracy, we still have reason for concern—less because of a tyrant looming on the right than because of a paralysis of political agency across the board. The signal quality of Trump’s Presidency was not how unusual it was but how emblematic it was” (Corey Robin, 2021).
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