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'Elite universities have not sacrificed excellence for diversity'

Christopher L. Eisgruber in The Atlantic

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'An infuriating poll finding about Trump should galvanize Democrats'

Greg Sargent in The New Republic

For an ex-president, Donald Trump "wields unprecedented influence over his party," says Greg Sargent. Trump "explicitly and repeatedly" pressured his fellow Republicans to kill the bipartisan border security bill last week. But a new ABC News-Ipsos survey found "Trump gets substantially less blame" than anybody else. Democrats, who supported the bill, should take this as a call to "do more to communicate that Republicans are sabotaging the country because Trump told them to."

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'A vote for President Kamala Harris'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board

President Joe Biden's "evident mental decline" means a vote for him "is also really a vote for President Harris," says The Wall Street Journal editorial board. Vice President Kamala Harris is "reassuring everyone that she's up to the job of succeeding her boss if the moment arrives," but many voters aren't convinced. The possibility Biden, 81, wouldn't finish his term "might scare more swing voters" than his frailty or "Donald Trump's daily diatribes." 

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'Trump may keep the US in NATO, but the damage is done'

Marc Champion at Bloomberg

Donald Trump might never really try to pull the United States out of NATO, says Marc Champion. But his rhetoric could kill it from within. He claims he once told a European leader he would let Russia do "whatever the hell they want" to a NATO member not spending enough on defense, effectively neutralizing NATO's Article 5 collective defense clause. "Threatening to abandon Article 5 undermines its deterrent value, without having to actually do anything." 

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.