DM Please offer your perspectives on these excerpts from Joe Manchin's recently published autobiography, "Dead Center:" Here's the first excerpt for your consideration: "Throughout our nation’s history, extreme party politics have repeatedly threatened to destroy the United States, even though the existence of political parties was deliberately omitted from our Constitution. President George Washington grew so disillusioned with the squabbling of his era that he declined to r

The General Atomics linkup is a first for the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft effort.

Energy constraints in the artificial-intelligence race are causing tech companies to think out of this world

The rapid development of artificial intelligence is pushing corporate boards into uncharted territory. Some are scrambling.

Balance sheets, cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently

Big companies have teams to guide tech strategy—smaller firms noodle until something works Quick Summary Fifty-eight percent of small businesses surveyed use generative AI, an increase from 40% in 2024 and more than double two years prior. Small businesses are using AI for various tasks, including cost analysis, customer service, shift scheduling and website development. Some small-business owners report that AI has enabled them to reduce staffing needs, such as hiring fewer

Amazon informed staffers via a text-email combo. Target asked workers to stay home. Does any of that make job cuts less painful? Quick Summary Employers are changing layoff tactics with an aim of minimizing ugly public scenes. Some companies are using remote notifications, such as texts. There are managers who have been cut out of the loop on staff reductions, unable to explain dismissals to teams.

Doug McMillon’s success at Walmart shows the value of corporate leadership.

Companies are favoring multitool graduates with broad skill sets

In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life

After a decades long hiatus, nuclear weapons surge back to the forefront of global politics Somewhat related? The U.S. bid to control the western hemisphere Also related: comparing U.S. and China drones

Their favorite project is themselves.

Since devoting nearly all of its profits to climate and nature in late 2022, the company has given away an extra $180 million

FCC chair Brendan Carr is on a crusade to manipulate the airwaves.

Human brains were not meant to think about trillions of dollars.

DM Is it true that President Obama and Harry Reid (by choosing to tamper with, and fracture, the filibuster) set the stage for our prevailing Supreme Court imbalance, ...and thus for years to come? This is a debated question with legitimate arguments on different sides. The case that Reid's move contributed: In 2013, Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for most presidential nominations (lower court judges, executive appointments) but specifically preserved it for Supreme Co

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian Volker Ullrich.

This week, we search for the answer to a deceptively simple question: why is the brain divided? Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist explains why popular distinctions between the “left brain” and “right brain” aren’t supported by research. He argues that one hemisphere has come to shape Western society — to our detriment.

U.S. economic fate looks tied to AI—for better or worse

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