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What Detroit’s Comeback Teaches

For generations, American workers have built the cars, technologies, businesses, and industries that helped make the United States the most dynamic economy in the world.

Now, the nature of that work is changing. Artificial intelligence and advanced technology are transforming the workplace, even as skilled tradespeople, technicians, and manufacturers remain essential to America’s strength and competitiveness.

As Labor Day approaches, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice sits down with General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra for a timely conversation about American workers, innovation, and what it will take to keep our workforce strong in the decades ahead.

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Thomas Sowell taught Clarence Thomas

When Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas first encountered Thomas Sowell’s work as a young law student, he rejected it.

Years later, at a pivotal moment in his life, he picked up Race and Economics. This time, the argument inside it quietly rearranges everything he thought he knew. Justice Thomas describes it as finding “water in the desert.”

That discovery would change the course of his thinking and begin a friendship with Sowell that lasted more than four-decades.

Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas
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