NotableButtigieg and El-Sayed are teaching Democrats to speak Republican. “Take ‘capitalism.’ While there has been enormous fuss over leftists, including some recent Democratic primary winners, who deride it and identify as socialist or socialist-adjacent, there has been inadequate attention to Democrats who insist that they’re real capitalists in a way that President Trump and his MAGA supporters aren’t.” — Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer Silicon Valley is falling back in love with bombs. “The federal government is, at base, a purchasing agent, and Silicon Valley’s pivot to the military — and to Mr. Trump — is less a story of political conversion than of market adaptation. Silicon Valley’s values haven’t changed, just its customers.” — Sharon Weinberger, the author of the forthcoming “Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War” Cuba is out of time. “Few observers seriously expect another full American occupation of Cuba. But history need not repeat itself so literally to rhyme with the imperial refrains of old. President Trump has publicly floated a ‘friendly takeover’ of the island.” — Michael J. Bustamante, a professor of Cuban and Cuban American studies at the University of Miami Spotlight
How to Stop a Lab Accident From Starting the Next PandemicMore than six years after the emergence of Covid-19, no one is keeping track of the risky virus experiments that are capable of starting a pandemic. ICYMISpider-Man Is the Only Superhero We Need. “We don’t need Mr. All-American-From-Krypton or a showboating billionaire with a bat attitude. Not with the federal government currently at war with itself, its populace, its Constitution, all common decency and Iran. Even Lex Luthor might cringe at the brazen corruption of our oligarchs. No, this is not a job for Superman. Nor is it one for several gaggles of superheroes — the Avengers, the X-Men, the New Avengers and sundry others.” — David Colman, a writer and critic Listen (or Watch)
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