‘Presidency, I’m against it’
Andy Kessler in the Wall Street Journal
Everyone “who splashes their name on tall buildings” cares about inheritance, says Andy Kessler. So, what can Donald Trump do if he wins a second president’s term to “change his legacy from authoritarian Blowhard to transformative president?” He has to “become a villain” and do something no one expects, “as Nixon goes to China.” This may mean that “disassembly of our post-franklin D. Roosevelt Kinglike’s presidential platform”, and works with Congress to define “hard boundaries for executive power.”
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“Iger won the battle – but Disney’s” Woke “war is not over”
Beth Kowitt at Bloomberg
Bob iger won his showdown against activist investor Nelson Peltz Trian Partners, says Beth Kowitt. But Walt Disney Co. The CEO “maybe chalk up a W prematurely” in its battle “against the notion that Disney is a” awake “company that runs a left -wing agenda.” Disney still has work ahead to “really interrupt from the party discourse.” To win the cultural war, Iger must “keep the eye on the ball” and focus on the business.
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“Annual parents are the ones who need help”
Mathilde Ross in the New York Times
Colleges have accepted their new students, so get ready for “another record season for anxiety on campus,” says Mathilde Ross. The children are “mostly good.” Not so their parents. “Increasing frequencies of mental health problems on campus” have “got parents worrying. Right enough.” But mothers and fathers “allow their anxiety to take over, and that doesn’t help anyone, at least of all their children.” The first troubled parents need to make is to “get a grip.”
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“Why as a doctor and ticto -creator I am broken over the house bill to ban it”
Jason Bae in San Francisco Chronicle
As a physician with a social media account to “answer common questions” from patients “, I know from first and foremost that TikTok is an effective way for people to strengthen their voices,” says Jason Bae. Still, I have mixed feelings about the house to ban the platform. “I have reservations about the app’s place in our society and my life.” TikTok can disseminate “harmful information about mental health to children” and fuel conspiracy theories “generated by artificial intelligence.”
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