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☆ Opinion | This Is Not the Time for a Third Presidential Candidate
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I’ve long been a fan of No Labels, the organization that works to reduce political polarization and Washington gridlock. That project is a $70 million effort to secure ballot access for a potential third presidential candidate in 2024. Today, they argue, the electorate is roughly evenly split among those who lean Democratic, those who lean Republican and the unaffiliated. Fifty-nine percent of voters surveyed in that No Labels analysis said if that happened, they would consider voting for a third moderate candidate. If the No Labels candidate won just 61 percent of this disaffected group and the remainder was split evenly between two other candidates, he or she would capture a plurality of the electorate and could win the presidency.
Persons: Washington gridlock, I’ve, Joe Biden, Donald Trump Organizations: Washington, Democrats, White Locations: America
☆ Opinion | The College Admissions Process: No Easy Answers
  + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This would better justify the large public subsidies that these institutions receive. But lower-income students need more financial aid to attend, and every dollar spent on aid can’t be spent on other things valued by faculty, administrators and students who don’t need financial aid. Many of these selective schools currently actually reject talented students based solely on this financial need. Catharine B. HillNew YorkThe writer, president emerita of Vassar College, is managing director of Ithaka S + R, which offers strategic advice for academic and cultural institutions. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.”
Persons: can’t, Catharine B, Ithaka, David Brooks, Adam Grant, ” Organizations: Hill, Vassar College Locations: York
☆ Opinion | Let’s Smash the College Admissions Process
  + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Within days or weeks, the Supreme Court is going to render a decision on the future of affirmative action in higher ed. If things go as expected, conservatives will be cheering as these policies are struck down — and progressives will be wailing. But maybe we can all take this moment to reimagine the college admissions process itself, which has morphed into one of the truly destructive institutions in American society. The modern college admissions era was launched over half a century ago with the best of intentions — to turn finishing schools for the Protestant establishment into talent factories for all comers. In that same year, students from the top income quintile were 16 times more numerous at the University of North Carolina, a state school, than students from the bottom quintile.
Persons: —, Raj Chetty Organizations: Ivy League, University of North Locations: University of North Carolina
☆ Opinion | What Our Toxic Culture Does to the Young
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Typical members of that generation wanted to enjoy their freedom, so many put off marriage and parenting until their late 20s or their 30s. They adopted what some researchers call the “slow life strategy,” postponing the common milestones of adulthood until later in life. As the psychologist Jean Twenge shows in her lavishly informative new book, “Generations,” the members of Gen Z are now practicing the slow life strategy with a vengeance. Members of Gen Z are, for example, content to get their driver’s licenses later than earlier generations. By 2021, only 15 percent of the Gen Z ninth graders had.
☆ Opinion | Joe Biden and the Struggle for America’s Soul
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Joe Biden built his 2020 presidential campaign around the idea that “we’re in a battle for the soul of America.” I thought it was a marvelous slogan because it captured the idea that we’re in the middle of a moral struggle over who we are as a nation. But Biden is not using the word in a religious sense, but in a secular one. He is saying that people and nations have a moral essence, a soul. Whether you believe in God or don’t believe in God is not my department. But I do ask you to believe that every person you meet has this moral essence, this quality of soul.
☆ Opinion | The Flight to Red States
  + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “People Are Fleeing to Red States. Are They Better?,” by David Brooks (column, April 14):Mr. Brooks writes about why there has been a dramatic population shift from blue to red states. As one who moved from the New York City area to a purple suburb of blue Charleston, S.C., I save a fortune in state, local and property taxes. South Carolina doesn’t tax Social Security benefits, which are outrageously taxed by the federal government and most blue states. And my property taxes are about 90 percent lower than they would be in the New York City area.
☆ Opinion | The Power of American Capitalism
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The millennial and Gen Z generations are practically defined by a story of economic hardship. Many people believe that the coming generations will not enjoy the same living standards as their parents. “If anything, the reverse is true.”My point is not that American capitalism is perfect. For reasons deeply rooted in our culture, the American brand of capitalism has always been tilted toward dynamism, with freer markets and smaller welfare states. Between 1990 and 2019, American social spending rose from 14 percent of G.D.P.
☆ Third-party candidate push will 'hurt Biden and help Trump' in 2024, Democratic group warns
  + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A Democratic think tank has grown increasingly alarmed by an effort to field a third-party candidate in 2024. The "No Labels" effort is "going to hurt Biden and help Trump," Third Way's Jim Kessler told Insider. "I've been tracking what No Labels is doing, and at a certain point concluded, this is real and it's going to hurt Biden and help Trump," Kessler said. Of 23 states they say its will win, 19 of those states Biden won in 2020, he said. "But we know who they're going to nominate.
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