"Could" ?!?

For starters, I never read NYT beyond the headlines - both because of how broken the paid news model is for insightful reporting, and because of how instrumental NYT has been in breaking that model. This is 'Duh, of course' territory, to the point of being more rage bait...

Yes, Trumptastic governance has further screwed the US's already failing brain trust. The slippery slope of lowering quality for domestic primary math and science education since the 1970's had only been offset by an inflow of competent students and researchers from abroad with generally better than average comprehension of primary math and science subjects.

So now; we have an actively hostile government for these highly qualified students and researchers from abroad, an actively defunded science and math infrastructure for developing domestic supply of educated researchers, and an anti-incentive for any international cooperation on improving these conditions.

The headlines write themselves; but of what use are articles like this except as subscription bait for Ochs-Sulzberger family trust controlled media? /rhetorical question and observations ~ carry-on

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