‘South Korea’s democracy prevailed — nevertheless it wasn’t assured’
Byunghwan Son at MSNBC
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “might provide some precious implications for different international locations with a presidential system, together with the US,” says Byunghwan Son. It’s “cheap to imagine — although removed from sure — {that a} politically cornered Yoon determined to gamble on declaring martial legislation.” American politicians “ought to be following alongside intently,” as a result of “irrespective of how unlikely it might sound, a politically cornered president can resort to martial legislation with surprisingly little preliminary resistance.”
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‘How Democrats might use the lame duck to save lots of medicine abortions’
Erwin Chemerinsky and Miles Mogulescu on the Los Angeles Occasions
Democrats “ought to push by way of laws to repeal the Comstock Act, which may very well be used to forestall authorized medically induced abortions in every single place in the US,” say Erwin Chemerinsky and Miles Mogulescu. It’s “crucial that lawmakers achieve this within the upcoming lame-duck session.” Abortion is the “one concern that Democrats received on this election,” so “Democrats want to consider what they’ll do earlier than they lose the White Home and the Senate.”
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‘Hit males aren’t what you assume’
Aymann Ismail and Dennis Kenney at Slate
It’s “too early to attract definitive conclusions about” the UnitedHealthcare taking pictures, say Aymann Ismail and Dennis Kenney. The shooter “gave the impression to be somebody who knew what they had been doing, however the thought of knowledgeable hitman, these are fairly few and much between.” A “skilled hitman would in all probability choose to do one thing much less public with restricted publicity,” however the “publicity was pretty excessive, and most professionals do not like that quantity of threat.”
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‘$8 billion for Intel will not repair America’s chip drawback’
Bloomberg editorial board
The Chips and Science Act has been “at finest a combined success,” says the Bloomberg editorial board. Such “measures not often work out as meant, and Intel is an efficient instance,” so “does showering this firm with billions of taxpayer {dollars} actually make sense?” Subsidies “can prop up a struggling firm, however they’re going to additionally protect it from competitors, crowd out new entrants, delay arduous selections and set the federal government’s pursuits at odds with these of shareholders.”
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