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| By The Free Press |
It’s Thursday, February 12. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: More footage from the Epstein tapes. Will Rahn on how he built an app to tackle Catholic guilt. Peter Coy on the Bitcoin crash. And Columbia’s four finalists for the new Edward Said Professorship.
But first: He tried to warn them.
Senator Rand Paul is one of Washington’s loneliest men, with ironclad libertarian views that often put him at odds with Donald J. Trump’s Republican Party. But now, in his third term, Paul is also a party elder, with a prominent platform to challenge his colleagues.
Today, as the head of the Homeland Security Committee, he’ll question Trump’s top immigration officials about the showdown in Minneapolis that has made ICE, and Trump’s deportation push, the talk of the nation. Don’t expect Paul to go easy on his subjects. As he told Peter Savodnik in a new interview for The Free Press, Paul believes the Trump administration has been “reckless” in its pursuit of mass deportations.
It didn’t have to come to this. Last June, Paul tried to slash the massive amount of funding Republicans wanted to supercharge ICE, and he warned that the cash would let the agency run amok. His party pushed him aside and raced ahead.
Where does Paul expect things to go from here? Read the full interview to find out.
—Mene Ukueberuwa
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AI and Me
AI is advancing at a bewildering pace, and leaving anyone who uses it wondering where things are heading. Today, two Free Press writers reckon with the astonishing advances and what it means for how we live.
Up first: Maya Sulkin recounts the tale of how ChatGPT saved her from a nurse practitioner’s misdiagnosis—and what the experience taught her about the future of medicine. Read Maya on how ChatGPT saved her feet:
Next: We’d been wondering where our colleague Will Rahn had been over the past few days, and what exactly he was up to. The answer, it turns out, is building an app. Yes, “vibe coding” has arrived at Free Press HQ, and Will has used it to build an app that will distill Catholicism’s best advice for quelling his anxiety about “mass unemployment” and runaway tech. Will discovers that “you tell Claude to do something and it just does it.” Read about Will’s app—and what he learned from the bewilderingly easy process of making it without knowing any coding skills:
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