In a rousing commencement speech, Michael Bloomberg told Harvard’s newest grads, and the academic community at large, that they must not shut out dissent on campus.

Good afternoon, TAI readers! We trust you’ve enjoyed your weekend so far. Take the time this Sunday to look back on what you may have missed on the site over the past week:

MOOCs have taken to the tropics: Online education provider Coursera is setting up a “national network” of MOOCs in Trinidad and Tobago.

The lawyers of the future will depend heavily on, or even be, computers.

An excellent book about America, hate, and redemption—at once despairing of and affirming the American dream—is your weekend read.

When you step back and add up all the costs of commuting to and from work entails, the results are staggering. Thankfully, there’s a solution.

European elections are usually forgettable events, but this year’s has laid bare several contradictions at the heart of the European project.

Energy consulting group IHS reports that exporting American crude would boost domestic production and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Expect this issue to feature in this year’s midterm elections.

The VA scandal points to a systemic problem in U.S. health care: there are not enough care providers to meet patients’ demand. Shinseki’s resignation, and tinkering with how the VA operates, won’t cure what ails us.

From natural resources to infrastructure to national and international security and beyond, China and Russia have begun a new era of cooperation.