The Washington Post editorial staff
If Iran and Russia’s disinformation campaign “sounds like a repeat of the 2016 presidential campaign, with foreign states attempting to interfere in U.S. democracy, that’s just how it is,” says the Washington Post’s editorial board. Russia has now “accelerated the process to spread disinformation at high speed and on an industrial scale.” It is “likely that there are many other undiscovered influence campaigns” that use artificial intelligence, so “Congress should fund and improve programs that warn citizens not to be deceived.”
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“Joe Biden didn’t just pass the torch at the DNC – he paid tribute to the future”
Hayes Brown at MSNBC
President Joe Biden was “more excited than he has been in months” at the DNC, says Hayes Brown. Biden used his speech to “boast a little about his accomplishments and channel his genuine anger at how former President Donald Trump and his movement have and will harm the country.” There was a “long list of accomplishments that Biden actually wanted to boast about himself. Instead, it will be the foundation of Harris’ campaign.”
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“What Harris can learn from Obama’s very first convention speech”
Julian E. Zelizer at Foreign Policy
As Democrats prepare for the DNC in Chicago, they would do well to look back at Obama’s 2004 statements, says Julian E. Zelizer. Obama’s “keynote address remains as relevant in 2024 as it was when he was a relatively unknown figure on the national stage.” The speech “provides a solid foundation for the politics of joy that Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, hope will help them maintain their momentum.”
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“Germany’s brilliant police strategy: Give us your knife, you’ll get free Netflix”
Itxu Diaz at National Review
Knife violence and immigration “merge into a crisis that European politicians are reluctant to address seriously,” says Itxu Díaz. Germany “is debating whether the government should offer Netflix subscriptions to those who voluntarily surrender their illegal knives.” This debate “is so immensely illustrative of the EU’s failures that it cannot be overlooked.” If Europeans had been “told of such a proposal in 2015, we would have said without hesitation: ‘That will never happen here.'”
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