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An invisible industry no more

Data centers were once invisible infrastructure. Now they’re the defining local political fight of the AI era. In December 2022, I was frantically trying to figure out how to incorporate Chat GPT into my undergraduate technical communication class for engineering students while my more normal friends were blithely unaware of the transformation on the horizon. […]

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Politics and civics

Too close for comfort

A Chinese Exclusion-era fiction, buried by the Supreme Court in 1898, has resurfaced 128 years later and came within one vote of winning this week in Barbara v. Trump. For anyone who wishes we could impeach the four horsemen of the Fourteenth Amendment debacle (raises hand), we must put that response to rest: none of […]

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How Washington deterred the world from visiting

A defunded marketing agency and a stack of new visa rules have turned America’s World Cup into everyone else’s windfall. Would you excise something from your portfolio that was earning $24 for every dollar you had invested? Neither would I, but that’s what the GOP did the summer of 2025 when they slashed the Brand […]