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[Reprint] China Has a Potent New Influence Tool: A.I.-Driven Propaganda

Originally published in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/opinion/china-ai-propaganda.html Aug. 5, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET By Brett J. Goldstein and Brett V. Benson Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Benson are professors at Vanderbilt University who specialize in national and international security.

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[Reprint] American Democracy: An Interpretation for Schools by George Norlin

"American Democracy: An Interpretation for Schools" is an address by George Norlin before the American Association of School Administrators, New Orleans, February 23, 1937.

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[Reprint] A President in Action George Norlin

George Norlin had the courage to make enemies, the Ku Klux Klan of an earlier decade as well as the Nazis whom he infuriated while living in the same hotel with Adolf Hitler.

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Barbara Ellen Hydo Wirtes

Barbara Ellen Hydo Wirtes September 24, 1935 – May 17, 2025 Barbara Ellen Hydo Wirtes, 89, passed away peacefully on May 17, 2025, in Hobe Sound, Florida. Barbara was born on September 24, 1935, in Gary, Indiana, to Stephen Hydo and Charlotte (Preuss) Hydo. She was the second of five daughters