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The former NIH director Francis Collins tells Jeffrey Goldberg he fears the U.S. is losing a generation of scientists. “We have depended so heavily on being the place that everybody wanted to come to to do research," Collins says. "And now we’re driving those people away.”

“I don’t think it’s a great idea to design a world where a few countries say ‘ha-ha-ha, we won’ and the rest of the countries are envious.” - Warren Buffett

Let's talk Alcatraz economics. It's not just a potential prison, it's also a tourist trap generating $60m per year. It has an "opportunity cost" other sites don't have. 👉 Housing 300 prisoners there comes with an additional opportunity cost of $200k per person per year

Congratulations to Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV on his election to the Throne of Saint Peter, and to all Roman Catholics worldwide. The choice of the first American pope marks a historic moment. Under his leadership, the Holy See and the United States will have a momentous

What an embarrassment.

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with Walter Isaacson & Christiane Amanpour on Amanpour and Company, airing on PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on CNN International earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

I’ll say it again: Loving your country does not mean lying about its history. We should embrace the stories of Americans like Harvey Milk and Harriet Tubman who have helped make this country so powerful and unique. Not diminish them. cbsnews.com/news/navy-new-…

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We've got multiple independent macroeconomic analyses of One Big Beautiful Bill and none of them suggest the bill comes anywhere close to deficit neutral when you include growth. In fact, two of them show the bill costs *more* after including growth effects.

“As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States is presenting other countries with opportunities to take the lead …” writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3ZYfA3U

honestly didn't expect this is what would happen when i joined a menswear forum 15 years ago

The 144 Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge (So Far) goodreads.com/blog/show/2937… via Goodreads

How is it possible that this man always finds a way to sink even lower ?

No, L.A. is not under lockdown. No, the protesters aren’t Soros-paid agitators. And no, this isn’t Portland 2020. I’m here in Los Angeles. Here’s what’s actually happening. My latest Dispatch from L.A. for ⁦reason⁩ reason.com/2025/06/12/los…

America hasn’t been perfect. It’s made grave mistakes. But there is no country that has ever done more for improving the world. It breaks my heart how unappreciative Americans across the ideological spectrum are of that. Much of the left rejects we’ve ever been good for the

Yashar Ali 🐘 Sean Duffy MTV star turned Fox News personality now leading DOT and NASA

"Copper is so important that we're going to make it more expensive" is protectionist brain rot.

Negative drug prices are on the way ! 🤣🇺🇸