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"We forget what we don’t want to remember," Miller writes. "While I understand that impulse, there are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley, or what we like to call the Hill Country."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to counteract GOP gerrymandering in Texas by redrawing electoral lines in the Golden State, which currently skew Democratic, despite having over 5.7 million registered Republican voters.  

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said the tariffs faced by the southeast Asian country would be reduced from 32% to 19% in exchange for "full access" for American firms.

The pervasiveness of technology on campuses poses a distinct threat to small residential liberal-arts colleges, writes The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf '02. Pomona faculty weigh in.

In 2023, Japan’s Self-Defense Force fell 50 percent short of its recruitment target. The following year, the number of babies born fell to a record low for the ninth consecutive year. 

Prof. Susan McWilliams Barndt joins the Givers, Doers, & Thinkers Podcast to discuss the shockingly under-emphasized concept of "fraternity" in America, which more fully captures our communal experience than the understanding of "community."

Prof. Sara Sadhwani joins "Inside the Issues" host Amrit Singh to discuss the vote at Los Angeles City Hall.

A Republican plan aimed primarily at the Ivy League would impose billions in taxes on the investment returns of several dozen private colleges and universities.

Walmart executives recently told industry analysts that an increase in prices would be unavoidable in the face of the highest import duties the U.S. has seen since the 1930s.

Substantial revenue has yet to materialize from AI, and it may be decades before we see a productivity bump. Nonetheless, AI hypesters cling to their fanciful forecasts.