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4 days ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

The Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Higher Education yesterday favorably reported “An Act Relative to Equitable Higher Education Admissions Policies,” which would prevent colleges based in the state from giving admissions preferences to those whose parents went to the school.

5 days ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

In today’s newsletter:A media accountability post about Trump and energy. Also: Robert Kagan versus Ken Griffin on whether Trump is a grave threat to the Constitution. Also: “Crimson Courage” or Crimson Cowards? Also: How are Israeli planes reaching Iranian airspace? What countries are granting overflight access and why? You can’t open a newspaper or news website these days without encountering some headline predicting that President Trump is the death knell for alternative energy.

6 days ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

Politicians talking about how to handle Iran are ready with references to previous conflicts. But the most relevant example may be one that has been widely neglected. In announcing Operation Rising Lion, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “80 years ago, the Jewish people were the victims of a Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Today, the Jewish state refuse to be a victim of a nuclear holocaust perpetrated by the Iranian regime.”Netanyahu went on to expand on the World War II history.

1 week ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

The nattering nabobs of negativity over at the New York Times are trying to sell the idea that what Israel and America are doing about Iran ought to be a negative for the markets. Let’s think about this. Estimates vary, but the status quo in Iran is that the country has GDP per capita of somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,000 or $5,000.

1 week ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

New York City mayoral candidate Whitney Tilson joined me this morning to talk about his mayoral race in America’s largest city. He talked about the economic growth theme in his campaign, his opponent Zohran Mandani (“super-dangerous…extremely radical”), education reform, crime and safety, housing (“unleash the private sector…‘real estate developer’ are not three pejorative words”), taxes (“We already have the highest tax rates on both individuals and businesses in the country.