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Many countries now face a rapidly aging population that could begin to shrink. "There's just, relatively speaking, no children being born in South Korea," said economist Phillip Levine.

According to projections from Wellesley environmental researchers, the bill threatens 4,500 clean energy projects, puts hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk, and could add billions to energy bills.

Novelist Jasmine Guillory ’97 along with more than 70 writers wrote an open letter about AI to literary publishers, demanding that publishing houses never release books that were created by machines.

Paula Johnson said that the idea of academic freedom goes back to 19th-century Berlin and the first modern research university. German intellectuals argued the pursuit of knowledge requires freedom.

“America the Beautiful” by poet Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley College literature professor and class of 1880 alumna, is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker John de Graaf.

Bipartisan pushback yielded a win for nature preservation. “There’s no question that the long history of public lands protection in the United States has been a bipartisan effort,” said Jay Turner.

Boston Arts Academy helps craft the next Ufot Cycle play: ‘Kufre n’ Quay’ by Mfoniso Udofia ’06. Twelve current BAA students are in the show, which is a co-production with the Wheelock Family Theatre.

“When Alexander Hamilton was Treasury Secretary, he proposed to assume the debts of the states in the Revolutionary War, and… expanded the debts of the federal government,” said professor Eric Hilt.

Trump is killing American EV companies to benefit China. According to Jay Turner of Wellesley College, more than $200 billion in US EV investment is now at risk. And that could be just the beginning.