Opinion Today: Today: A winning economic message

September 28, 2026

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Drew Leventhal

Notable

How to protect the power grid. “The administration is beginning to realize that national strength increasingly depends on a country’s ability to generate, store and direct electricity.”

— Harry Krejsa, the director of studies at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology, and Phoebe Benich, a fellow at the institute

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The other bond market you need to worry about. “This is for sure an esoteric part of international finance. It’s also a vital underpinning for markets that matter for your retirement account, savings and household budget.”

— Rebecca Patterson, an economist and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

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A hospital death can be a good death. “The cultural script that tells us that love looks like dying at home is powerful, and it leaves people who couldn’t make that happen — for reasons of symptoms, of resources, of fear — certain that they let someone down.”

— Daniela J. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer

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Spotlight

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Kimberly Elliott

Campaigning on High Prices Isn’t Enough. Democrats Need to Be Bolder.

Embrace the root causes of the affordability crisis.

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ICYMI

This is how you warm my heart. “Two of the things that count most in life are love and usefulness. Holding hands offers both. Take my hand. Keep me straight, protect me and warm my heart.”

— Roger Rosenblatt, author of “More Rules for Aging”

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I Once Celebrated Marriage. Things Have Changed.

Eleven years later, the novelist revisits a guest essay she wrote about marriage.

By Curtis Sittenfeld

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Guest Essay

The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence

Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.

By Simon Critchley

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letters

The State of Organ Donation

Readers respond to “Organ Donation Needs to Be Trustworthy,” an Opinion guest essay by Greg Segal. Also: Don’t eat beef.

In Your Words

Re: “Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.”

Amy

Brooklyn

If doctors in training eventually come to a point where, if an AI goes dark or they can’t access it, they are incapable of providing expert medical care, we are cooked. The monetization of these models will also soon be cranked up as soon as the profession is so fully hooked that doctors can’t do their jobs without it. Then those extreme and unavoidable costs will be passed on to us patients, creating yet another pressure point that the medical for profit system can exert on us. If Open Evidence becomes a critical tool, who’s to stop them from charging a doctor an obscene amount per month for access? Will we also be forced to allow more data centers to be built in order to support such a critical piece of new infrastructure? I fear we are handing AI companies and for-profit medical companies a huge stick to beat us with.

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