‘The Supreme Court docket simply confirmed us what contempt for experience seems like’
M. Gessen at The New York Instances
Supreme Court docket justices “in all probability should not be making an attempt to make a ruling based mostly on medical proof,” says M. Gessen. The “ease with which legislators overrule docs, and the comparatively small quantity of consideration this overreach obtained” throughout the Supreme Court docket listening to of United States v. Skrmetti, are “signs of our occasions.” A “rejection of real experience is each a precondition and a operate of autocracy,” and there’s a “rising intolerance of minorities and, particularly, individuals who dare to problem custom.”
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‘The actual downside on the coronary heart of the Boeing plea deal’
Hui Chen and Todd Haugh at The Washington Publish
There’s a “morass of misaligned incentives which have weakened the power” of company displays to “obtain their most crucial objective — lowering company wrongdoing in the long run,” say Hui Chen and Todd Haugh. The “system is so damaged that there is not even a transparent normal for judging whether or not a monitorship has labored,” and “there shall be no means” to “objectively decide whether or not Boeing has change into extra moral and capable of higher forestall misconduct.”
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‘The College of Michigan’s shift on DEI is simply a begin’
Nationwide Overview editors
The College of Michigan’s DEI shun is an “indication that directors are already listening to the footsteps of Donald Trump,” say the Nationwide Overview’s editors. Universities have been “among the many most vocal proponents of the divisive DEI ideology, evident of their passionate defenses of racially discriminatory admissions insurance policies.” Requiring a “DEI-themed assertion for hiring, promotion, tenure, or admission is nothing in need of compelled progressive speech,” and the “College of Michigan has taken a small step in the correct path.”
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‘This yr, Arab American political energy got here to the fore’
Rami G. Khouri at Al Jazeera
“One of many main political developments in america” is the “success of Arab American political organizing,” says Rami G. Khouri. A “new technology of political activists has emerged that has earned illustration in unprecedented numbers.” It “additionally put Arab Individuals on the electoral map for the primary time by launching the Uncommitted motion.” Democrats “underestimated the ability of this new technology and the depth of citizen anger, which value it dearly within the election.”
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