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The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The U.S.administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy. Related Related
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision. Related
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Oct 27, 20251 min read
What's up with democracies?
Fareed's Take
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging U.S. leader's policies
Smaller law firms are being pressed to their limits as they try to pick up the legal slack.
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
The consequences of U.S. moral drift
Consumerism and the addiction economy are undermining the republic. Related More
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
The Thread Tying Together Everything U.S. Leadership Is Doing
But history shows that when might makes right, things go terribly wrong.
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Oct 26, 20251 min read
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.
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Oct 25, 20251 min read
This Movie Makes Nuclear War Feel Disturbingly Possible
An interview with the A House of Dynamite screenwriter Noah Oppenheim and Tom Nichols
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Oct 25, 20251 min read
How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy
It was pitched as the world’s most exclusive invitation. Hundreds gathered at President Trump’s private country club in Virginia in May for a gala evening. Guests included Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency billionaire who, in the Biden administration, was under investigation for suspected financial crimes. He and the other attendees had won their seats by being the top buyers of $TRUMP memecoin, a form of crypto that benefits Mr. Trump’s family.
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Oct 24, 20251 min read
The Average U.S. Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000
Higher spending on chronic diseases, weight-loss drugs and hospital bills help drive the increase
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
U.S. government seeks to acquire more ownership in U.S. businesses
Discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in key parts of the economy Quick Summary Several quantum-computing companies are negotiating with the Commerce Department for federal funding in exchange for equity stakes. The Trump administration is expanding its strategy of taking equity in companies receiving taxpayer funds, following a nearly 10% stake in Intel. The funding, potentially $10 million minimum per company, would support quantum computing, a critical next-gen
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
Perspectives of the college campus remodeling agenda
Campus autonomy was a major driver of the can-do America that Trump aims to revive.
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Oct 23, 20251 min read
U.S Leadership Advances Election Denials, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
Enabled by congress and the courts, the president has placed proponents of his false claims into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over elections ahead of next year’s midterms. Related
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Oct 22, 20251 min read
Creativity in the Age of AI
In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.
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Oct 22, 20251 min read
HOLY WARRIOR
Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.
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Oct 22, 20251 min read
Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
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Oct 21, 20251 min read
Empathy: The glue we need to fix a fractured world
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.
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Oct 21, 20251 min read
Why the ‘No Kings’ Protests Matter
Huge demonstrations won’t translate into immediate political results, but there’s a reason the president is so bothered by them.
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Oct 21, 20251 min read
The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win
Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those farther to the right or left. This pattern may be the strongest one in electoral politics today, but it is one that many partisans try to obscure and many voters do not fully grasp.
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Oct 20, 20251 min read
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