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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Rise of Antisemitism and Political Violence in the U.S.
A man stands by the scene where two Israeli embassy staff were fatally shot on May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Credit - Alex Wroblewski—Getty Images Cases of antisemitism and hate crimes towards Jewish Americans have surged in recent years, particularly since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported that in the three months following the start of the war, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. skyrocketed by 361%. And the impact continues to be felt. According to the State of Antisemitism in America 2024 report, published in February 2025, 33% of American Jews said they have been the personal target of antisemitism, in-person or virtually, at least once over the past year. Meanwhile, 56% of American Jews said they altered their behavior out of fear of antisemitism in 2024. A notable increase from 46% in 2023 and 38% in 2022. Mark Oppenheimer, a professor of practice at Washington University and editor of Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera, says there has been a "sharp rise" in incidents of violence towards Jewish Americans. 'Most incidents of antisemitism are not incidents of physical violence. However, we shouldn't be surprised that in a climate where all kinds of hatred and harassment are being normalized, eventually it spills over into deadly violence. It's horrifying,' he says. One such case of deadly violence being linked to antisemitism is the killing of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, May 21. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, a couple expected to soon be engaged, were leaving the Capital Jewish Museum, after attending an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee, when they were fatally shot. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) have arrested a suspect, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. One witness told CNN that she heard Rodriguez say 'I did it for Gaza' and 'Free Palestine.' U.S. and global politicians have condemned the killing and denounced antisemitic violence. President Donald Trump said: 'These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW! Hatred and radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen!' Secretary of State Marco Rubio referred to the shootings as a 'brazen act of cowardly, antisemitic violence' and said 'make no mistake: we will track down those responsible and bring them to justice.' Read More: Trump Condemns Killing of Two Israeli Embassy Staff in D.C. as U.S. and Global Lawmakers Denounce 'Antisemitic Violence' In September 2024, FBI data showed that anti-Jewish hate crimes had increased by 63% since 2023. Despite Jewish Americans making up just 2% of the U.S. population, reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crimes made up 15% of all reported hate crimes in 2023 and 68% of all reported religion-based hate crimes. Talking to TIME, experts highlighted three key areas they say have contributed to the rise in antisemitism in the U.S. The rise of reported antisemitic incidents in the U.S. has followed a wider trend. According to ADL, surveys show that 'anti-Jewish sentiments are at an all-time high globally.' A report published in January 2025 found that 46% of the world's adult population 'harbors deeply entrenched antisemitic attitudes,' equating to an estimated 2.2 billion people worldwide. In a reversal of previous trends, younger Americans are showing higher rates of endorsing anti-Jewish tropes. In 2024, ADL surveyed that younger Americans were more likely to endorse anti-Jewish tropes, with the highest rate among millennials. Baby boomers had the lowest rate regarding this type of endorsement. The rise of antisemitism among younger Americans coincides with the rise of antisemitic hate speech being shared on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, which tend to be more popular among younger age groups. Oppenheimer says that there has been a decline of historical knowledge regarding humanities, Judaism, and the State of Israel, with people instead getting their information from social media. 'Some students turn to TikTok or Instagram influencers for their understanding of a really complex geopolitical situation. That doesn't make the students bad people, but it means that we have, as teachers, failed them,' he says. Popular figures on social media, such as musician Kanye 'Ye' West—who currently has over 33 million followers on X—have repeatedly shared antisemitic views on their platforms. Elsewhere, U.S. podcast host Joe Rogan has come under fire for having Darryl Cooper—who has been referred to as "a Holocaust denier"—on his show. 'It's increasingly acceptable to talk about Jews in broadly stereotypical terms, as Joe Rogan does, as Kanye West does, as Trump has,' claims Oppenheimer. Some Jewish senators have accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target U.S. universities, making reference to his threats to defund certain schools following pro-Palestinian campus protests. In April 2025, five Jewish Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, accused the Trump Administration of using 'a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you.' According to Echoes and Reflections, an organization aimed at supporting Holocaust education in the U.S., as of 2025, only 29 states mandate Holocaust education. Oppenheimer believes that instead of addressing education on the Holocaust, American society instead needs to focus on improving education on wider Jewish, and other religious, studies. 'I think that Holocaust education is a poor substitute for a broad humanistic education. I do wish that people knew more about world religions, and about the lives of Jews—and the State of Israel—today," he says 'Continuing to offer mediocre or even good lesson plans about the 1940s is not going to make people more thoughtful thinkers about today's politics,' he argues. 'People have to understand others. Plenty of people accept the reality of the Holocaust, and then still think all sorts of terrible things about contemporary Jews.' Oppenheimer suggests that more funding needs to be allocated to humanity studies in education. Cambridge University found that in 2024, only $69 million out of $54 billion worth of federal government funds towards research in U.S. higher education goes to the humanities. If more funding was allocated to these areas of education, Oppenheimer says, 'we'd actually be able to educate more students.' Read More: 3 Lessons About Anti-Semitism We Should Learn From the Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack The rise in U.S. antisemitism is not an isolated trend. A look at the recent history of political violence in America is a major cause for concern. In October 2024, Reuters found that since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in 2021, there have been at least 300 cases of political violence, the biggest increase in the U.S. since the 1970s. Over the past year, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro saw his home set on fire in an arson attack and Elon Musk's Tesla company has seen multiple attacks on its showrooms since he started to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Most notably, Trump survived an assassination attempt during his election campaign in July 2024, with a bullet grazing his ear. Read More: A Stark Look at the Recent History of Political Violence in America Another alarming incident in 2022 saw the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi subjected to an attack from a man who broke into their home and bludgeoned him with a hammer. Pamela Nadell, an author and director of the Jewish Studies program at the American University in D.C., says that antisemitism and political violence 'are both part of the same problem.' 'I've had lots of conversations about 'what is the solution?'" she says. 'The Biden Administration issued a national strategy to combat antisemitism, but not much of it got implemented.' Read More: Former Israeli Prime Minister Says Country's Action in Gaza is 'Close to a War Crime' Nadell argues that antisemitism is on the rise, in part, due to critiques on Israel that have steered off-course. 'There are so many moments where legitimate criticism of Israel and its conduct of the war has crossed the line into antisemitism when one uses classic antisemitic tropes,' she says. 'Equating Jews to Nazis has just exacerbated this, opening the path for a man to decide he's just going to shoot two people leaving an event, who he believes are Jews.' Contact us at letters@
The Citizen
22-05-2025
- Politics
- The Citizen
‘Free Palestine' shooter kills two outside Jewish museum in Washington
Officials linked the attack to rising anti-Semitism amid the Israel-Gaza conflict, as the suspect shouted 'free Palestine' during his arrest. FBI agents and police officers work outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Picture: Alex Wroblewski / AFP) Two Israeli embassy staffers, one of them an American, were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington by a gunman who shouted 'free Palestine' as he was arrested. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led global condemnation of the attack, both of them blaming anti-Semitism. 'Blood libels against Israel are paid in blood — and they must be fought relentlessly,' Netanyahu said in a statement, ordering a boost in security at Israeli embassies around the world. Shots rang out on the sidewalk outside the Capital Jewish Museum, a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the White House, late Wednesday as it held an event for young professionals and diplomatic staff. Emergency vehicles remained at the scene in the early hours of Thursday after police taped off the area in the heart of the US capital. Victims identifies Israel identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, a US employee of the embassy, and said they were a couple who may have been planning to marry. Lischinsky was a research assistant at the Israeli embassy, while Milgrim worked for its public diplomacy department, according to their LinkedIn profiles. Lischinsky was Christian, according to The Times of Israel, for whom he had previously worked as a blogger. Germany's foreign minister said he also held a German passport. Washington's police chief identified the shooter as a 30-year-old from Chicago, Elias Rodriguez, and said he was in custody. Video of his arrest by police showed the bearded man in a jacket and white shirt shouting 'free, free Palestine' as he was led away. The attack came days after the museum was awarded a grant to boost security, as anti-Semitism surges worldwide since Israel's devastating invasion of Gaza, prompted by the October 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian militants Hamas. ALSO READ: Israel launches expanded Gaza offensive aimed at defeating Hamas 'What happened? Witnesses reportedly said that security personnel appeared to mistake the man for a victim of the shooting and allowed him into the museum, where he was comforted by bystanders before claiming responsibility for the attack. 'Some of the people at the event brought him water. They sat him down. 'Are you OK? Were you shot? What happened?' And he's like 'somebody call the cops',' Yoni Kalin, who was in the museum, told US media. Washington Police Chief Pamela Smith told reporters that the suspect was observed pacing back and forth outside of the museum before the shooting around 9:00 pm on Wednesday (0100 GMT Thursday). 'He approached a group of four people, produced a handgun and opened fire,' she said. First responders found a man and a woman unconscious and not breathing. Despite life-saving efforts, both were pronounced dead. 'After the shooting, the suspect then entered the museum and was detained by event security,' Smith said. She said the man told them where he discarded the gun. 'Despicable' 'These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!' Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. ALSO READ: Gazan twin brothers' Cannes film mourns a Gaza lost to war 'We are witnessing the terrible price of antisemitism and the wild incitement against the State of Israel,' Netanyahu said in his statement. 'My heart aches for the families of the beloved young man and woman, whose lives were abruptly cut short by a despicable antisemitic murderer.' Europe vs Israel Britain and France — who have stepped up their condemnation in recent days of Israel's actions in Gaza — as well as Germany were among those condemning the shooting. Israel's foreign minister accused European governments of 'incitement.' 'There is a direct line connecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli incitement to this murder,' Gideon Saar told a press conference. 'This incitement is also done by leaders and officials of many countries and international organizations, especially from Europe.' The targeted event was an annual reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for young Jewish professionals and the Washington diplomatic community. AJC CEO Ted Deutch said in a statement that the organization was 'devastated' by the shooting. Victims were a couple Israel's Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter, who said he spoke with Trump by telephone, told reporters the young staffers were a couple about to get engaged. 'The young man purchased a ring this week with the intention of proposing to his girlfriend next week in Jerusalem,' Leiter said. 'They were a beautiful couple.' NOW READ: WHO chief says 2 million 'starving' in Gaza
Vox
09-04-2025
- Science
- Vox
The self-inflicted death of American science has already begun
is an editorial director at Vox overseeing the climate, tech, and world teams, and is the editor of Vox's Future Perfect section. He worked at Time magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, a climate writer, and an international editor, and he wrote a book on existential risk. Demonstrators take part in a 'Stand Up For Science' rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson's new book Abundance — which maybe you've heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian American scientist whose work ultimately led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Related A longtime target of the right is finally buckling under Trump pressure When the research center she was working for in Hungary lost its state funding in the early 1980s, Karikó left her homeland, selling her car for 900 British pounds and sewing the cash into her daughter's teddy bear so her family had something to live on. Like countless other researchers around the world, she found her way to the country where a scientist had the best chance of finding the funding and support to further their work: America. Future Perfect Explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week. Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Thompson and Klein, one of Vox's founders, mostly use Karikó's story to illustrate the way risk aversion holds back science. Karikó was convinced that mRNA could be harnessed for new kinds of treatments and vaccines, but she experienced rejection after rejection from short-sighted grantmakers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was only when the Covid pandemic struck that the enormous value of Karikó's mRNA work was finally recognized. The mRNA vaccines ultimately saved as many as 20 million lives in just one year, and Karikó won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2023. But wind the tape back. Even before her years of rejection in American academia, had Karikó never been able to immigrate, she might never have been in a position to further her research in the first place. Perhaps we never would have had the mRNA vaccines — or even if we had, they would have been the product of another nation, one that would have reaped the benefits that ultimately went to the US. Instead, Karikó is one of a long line of foreign scientists, with the support of America's unparalleled university system and government support, achieved greatness that benefited her and her adopted country. The US has won more Nobel Prizes in the sciences than any other country by far, and immigrant scientists won more than a third of those Prizes, a proportion that has only increased in recent years. America has become a scientific colossus not just because it has spent more than any other nation on research and development, but because it made itself a magnet for global scientific talent, from superstar researchers to lowly junior scientists like Karikó. That, in turn, has translated to enormous economic benefit. According to one study, government-funded research and development has been responsible for 25 percent of productivity growth since the end of World War II. Now the Trump administration is working to destroy all of that through catastrophic funding cuts and blatantly nativist immigration policies. And the result will be nothing less than an act of national suicide. That's what the money's for This is very bad. Sheer dollar power has always been a key ingredient in American scientific dominance, going back to the country's enormous advances during World War II. (As important as geniuses like J. Robert Oppenheimer were to the development of the atomic bomb, the US ultimately got there first because it had the resources, as the physicist Niels Bohr put it, to turn the entire country into a factory for nuclear material.) Universities have already resorted to hiring freezes to cope with the cuts, and some are even rescinding admissions offers to PhD students. Some young scientists may simply leave the field altogether, potentially robbing us of future Karikós. But there has already been some success in pushing back against these cuts. On Friday, a federal judge permanently barred the Trump administration from limiting funding from the NIH to support academic research, though the ruling is almost certain to be appealed. And even if funding is cut, future administrations could restore it, while alternative sources of money can be found in the interim. What the Trump administration is doing with funding is a body blow to American science, but doesn't have to be a fatal one. What is happening with immigration policy, however, is another matter altogether. Killing the golden goose The Trump administration has made no secret of the fact it is deliberately targeting foreign students in the US that have been involved — sometimes only peripherally — in pro-Palestinian protests. Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder from Algeria who was a grad student at Columbia University, is currently sitting in custody in Louisiana after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Another international student, Rümeysa Öztürk of Tufts University, was arrested and scheduled for deportation, apparently for the crime of co-writing a newspaper op-ed criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza. But those are just the most high-profile cases. The New York Times reported this week that nearly 300 international students at universities around the US have had their visas suddenly revoked and could face deportation. (That figure could be higher when you read this — every time I clicked on the headline yesterday, the number of visas revoked went up.) There have also been reports of harassment and detainment of foreigners legally crossing the US border, which adds to a state of fear for any noncitizens. A few hundred students may not seem like that much, given that the US granted more than 400,000 visas in 2024 alone. But the message from the administration, which is also apparently scouring student visa applicants' social media for evidence of 'hostile attitudes' toward America or Israel, is clear: We don't want you here. And students and scientists are listening. In a recent poll by the journal Nature of more than 1,200 scientists in the US, three-quarters said they were considering leaving the country. This was especially true of the young scientists who are set to form the next vanguard of American research. Foreign scientists who might otherwise come to the US for conferences or short-term positions are rethinking those plans, afraid — with reason — they might end up inside an ICE detainment facility. Other countries like China and Canada are already making overtures to scientists in the US, because they're smart enough to grab an opportunity when they see one. As one recent Times opinion piece put it, the Trump administration's actions 'could mean America's demise as the most powerful force for innovation in science, health and technology in the 21st century.' Could they be replaced by American students? Don't bet on it. To push out foreign scientists who are here and shut the door to those who would come would cause incalculable damage to the US. Jeremy Neufeld of the Institute for Progress has called the recruitment of brilliant immigrant scientists to the US the 'secret ingredient' in American dynamism. A 2022 study found that immigrants have accounted for 36 percent of total innovation in the US since 1990, as measured through patents, while more than half of the billion-dollar US startups over the last 20 years have an immigrant co-founder. And now, apparently, we don't want them anymore. Destroying our future A boutique industry has emerged recently trying to make sense of the seemingly senseless actions of Trump and Musk. One theory is that Musk is doing what he often did at his companies: cutting things to the bone, and then adjusting as he sees what breaks. This can work — Musk didn't build multibillion-dollar companies like Tesla and SpaceX by accident — but it depends on being able to see the effects of what is cut immediately, through a fast information feedback loop. If Musk makes a change to a SpaceX rocket and it blows up, well, there's his answer. But as Klein said on a recent podcast, 'the government doesn't have very fast feedback loops.' And that's especially true for something as long-term as science funding and talent. Katalin Karikó came to the US in 1985, but it wasn't until 35 years later that her true value as a scientist was borne out. We may not immediately feel the impact of fewer foreign scientists coming to the US and staying here, but the impact is real. We'll feel it when we see scientists in other countries take home Nobel Prizes, when China laps us in vital fields like biotechnology and AI, when we struggle to find the people and the ideas that can create the next world-beating companies. We'll feel it when America becomes just another country. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!
Vox
09-04-2025
- Science
- Vox
The slow death of American science has already begun
is an editorial director at Vox overseeing the climate, tech, and world teams, and is the editor of Vox's Future Perfect section. He worked at Time magazine for 15 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, a climate writer, and an international editor, and he wrote a book on existential risk. Demonstrators take part in a 'Stand Up For Science' rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images In Ezra Klein and Derk Thompson's new book Abundance — which maybe you've heard of — they tell the story of Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian American scientist whose work ultimately led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Related A longtime target of the right is finally buckling under Trump pressure When the research center she was working for in Hungary lost its state funding in the early 1980s, Karikó left her homeland, selling her car for 900 British pounds and sewing the cash into her daughter's teddy bear so her family had something to live on. Like countless other researchers around the world, she found her way to the country where a scientist had the best chance of finding the funding and support to further their work: America. Future Perfect Explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week. Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Thompson and Klein, one of Vox's founders, mostly use Karikó's story to illustrate the way risk aversion holds back science. Karikó was convinced that mRNA could be harnessed for new kinds of treatments and vaccines, but she experienced rejection after rejection from short-sighted grantmakers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was only when the Covid pandemic struck that the enormous value of Karikó's mRNA work was finally recognized. The mRNA vaccines ultimately saved as many as 20 million lives in just one year, and Karikó won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2023. But wind the tape back. Even before her years of rejection in American academia, had Karikó never been able to immigrate, she might never have been in a position to further her research in the first place. Perhaps we never would have had the mRNA vaccines — or even if we had, they would have been the product of another nation, one that would have reaped the benefits that ultimately went to the US. Instead, Karikó is one of a long line of foreign scientists, with the support of America's unparalleled university system and government support, achieved greatness that benefited her and her adopted country. The US has won more Nobel Prizes in the sciences than any other country by far, and immigrant scientists won more than a third of those Prizes, a proportion that has only increased in recent years. America has become a scientific colossus not just because it has spent more than any other nation on research and development, but because it made itself a magnet for global scientific talent, from superstar researchers to lowly junior scientists like Karikó. That, in turn, has translated to enormous economic benefit. According to one study, government-funded research and development has been responsible for 25 percent of productivity growth since the end of World War II. Now the Trump administration is working to destroy all of that through catastrophic funding cuts and blatantly nativist immigration policies. And the result will be nothing less than an act of national suicide. That's what the money's for This is very bad. Sheer dollar power has always been a key ingredient in American scientific dominance, going back to the country's enormous advances during World War II. (As important as geniuses like J. Robert Oppenheimer were to the development of the atomic bomb, the US ultimately got there first because it had the resources, as the physicist Niels Bohr put it, to turn the entire country into a factory for nuclear material.) Universities have already resorted to hiring freezes to cope with the cuts, and some are even rescinding admissions offers to PhD students. Some young scientists may simply leave the field altogether, potentially robbing us of future Karikós. But there has already been some success in pushing back against these cuts. On Friday, a federal judge permanently barred the Trump administration from limiting funding from the NIH to support academic research, though the ruling is almost certain to be appealed. And even if funding is cut, future administrations could restore it, while alternative sources of money can be found in the interim. What the Trump administration is doing with funding is a body blow to American science, but doesn't have to be a fatal one. What is happening with immigration policy, however, is another matter altogether. Killing the golden goose The Trump administration has made no secret of the fact it is deliberately targeting foreign students in the US that have been involved — sometimes only peripherally — in pro-Palestinian protests. Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder from Algeria who was a grad student at Columbia University, is currently sitting in custody in Louisiana after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Another international student, Rümeysa Öztürk of Tufts University, was arrested and scheduled for deportation, apparently for the crime of co-writing a newspaper op-ed criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza. But those are just the most high-profile cases. The New York Times reported this week that nearly 300 international students at universities around the US have had their visas suddenly revoked and could face deportation. (That figure could be higher when you read this — every time I clicked on the headline yesterday, the number of visas revoked went up.) There have also been reports of harassment and detainment of foreigners legally crossing the US border, which adds to a state of fear for any noncitizens. A few hundred students may not seem like that much, given that the US granted more than 400,000 visas in 2024 alone. But the message from the administration, which is also apparently scouring student visa applicants' social media for evidence of 'hostile attitudes' toward America or Israel, is clear: We don't want you here. And students and scientists are listening. In a recent poll by the journal Nature of more than 1,200 scientists in the US, three-quarters said they were considering leaving the country. This was especially true of the young scientists who are set to form the next vanguard of American research. Foreign scientists who might otherwise come to the US for conferences or short-term positions are rethinking those plans, afraid — with reason — they might end up inside an ICE detainment facility. Other countries like China and Canada are already making overtures to scientists in the US, because they're smart enough to grab an opportunity when they see one. As one recent Times opinion piece put it, the Trump administration's actions 'could mean America's demise as the most powerful force for innovation in science, health and technology in the 21st century.' Could they be replaced by American students? Don't bet on it. To push out foreign scientists who are here and shut the door to those who would come would cause incalculable damage to the US. Jeremy Neufeld of the Institute for Progress has called the recruitment of brilliant immigrant scientists to the US the 'secret ingredient' in American dynamism. A 2022 study found that immigrants have accounted for 36 percent of total innovation in the US since 1990, as measured through patents, while more than half of the billion-dollar US startups over the last 20 years have an immigrant co-founder. And now, apparently, we don't want them anymore. Destroying our future A boutique industry has emerged recently trying to make sense of the seemingly senseless actions of Trump and Musk. One theory is that Musk is doing what he often did at his companies: cutting things to the bone, and then adjusting as he sees what breaks. This can work — Musk didn't build multibillion-dollar companies like Tesla and SpaceX by accident — but it depends on being able to see the effects of what is cut immediately, through a fast information feedback loop. If Musk makes a change to a SpaceX rocket and it blows up, well, there's his answer. But as Klein said on a recent podcast, 'the government doesn't have very fast feedback loops.' And that's especially true for something as long-term as science funding and talent. Katalin Karikó came to the US in 1985, but it wasn't until 35 years later that her true value as a scientist was borne out. We may not immediately feel the impact of fewer foreign scientists coming to the US and staying here, but the impact is real. We'll feel it when we see scientists in other countries take home Nobel Prizes, when China laps us in vital fields like biotechnology and AI, when we struggle to find the people and the ideas that can create the next world-beating companies. We'll feel it when America becomes just another country. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!
