" The Heritage Foundation — the think tank behind Project 2025, which has had an outsize influence on executive branch policy in the second Trump administration — seems to want to take a time machine back to when women were financially dependent on men and gay marriage was not legal, but the authors can’t decide exactly how far back they want to go. They call the report “a culturewide Manhattan Project that marshals America’s political, social and economic capital to restore

Drug deaths are finally falling—but the cause may be far outside of U.S. policy makers’ control.

MAGA'S JESUS VS THE HISTORICAL JESUS

A reckoning forthcoming?

Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do. Related: Trump’s lesson in how to turn U.S. allies into China’s friends. Related: A Look Back at the War That Is About to Begin Related: New world order may be so hard to imagine that investors just ignore it Meanwhile, Russia cheers

Americans (and the rest of the world) can’t seem to keep up.

U.S. leaders wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

Everyone is intimidated by U.S. President, but we need to find the courage to stand up against abuses. Excerpt: " Perhaps most important, all business leaders—and leaders in all sectors—should ask themselves three questions. First, do Mr. Trump’s actions regarding the economy, the law, and use of the federal government cross a red line? Second, if not, what would? Third, what will I do differently if and when such a line is crossed? The challenges of opposing authoritarianism

In a first for NATO, America’s closest allies are using their troops to thwart possible U.S. action Related opinion Related: U.S. threatens more tariffs

Irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to widespread conflict.

Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.

250 years of U.S. history is projected on the Washington Monument. A lot was missing

Fareed's Take

A criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will test whether Republican loyalty to the president has any limits.

The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog worldview.

DM Related to our prior discussion (F>T, F=T) , and the conversation prior (Social Physics) , I argue that "trust" is a form of "personal truth;" thus both are aspects of holophrenic "knowledge curation." Do you understand this conjecture (and perhaps envision the potential implications)? Yes, I understand your conjecture, and I think it's doing significant work within your framework. Let me articulate what I see: Within the Universal Holophren, "truth" as you've defined it

DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als

The storied newscast once helmed by Walter Cronkite now runs third behind its competitors and is being closely watched as CBS News’s top editor promises a political reset. Excerpt: ' “People do not trust us like they used to,” he said. “Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.” Dokoupil’s vision for a more populist and personal version of

The fast fade of a co-equal branch of government

In the struggle for American independence, conventional battles were the exception. Small-scale violence was everywhere.