Predictions of the duties’ impact on the economy were buoyant or dire. Here’s the reality.

In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography.

The U.S. president’s pardon schemes encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.

The attack at Brown University is just the latest example.

The problem with fixating on inequality, oligarchy, and other abstractions Excerpt: "As Stephen Colbert explained long ago , common sense comes from thinking “from the gut, not the brain.” Psychologists have a more sophisticated way of articulating this distinction. As readers of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow or Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink know, the human mind exhibits two different systems of cognition. The first is rapid and concrete, focusing on primary represent

When nations clash, military prowess is important—but don’t forget about endurance, supply and alliances.

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But Trump’s executive order to bully states is the wrong way to act.

For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic.

For those of my generation on the continent, the estrangement from the U.S. feels like the death of a beloved relative—but it may not be as final.

Politicians and CEOs are muting their climate alarms. The good news is, emissions are likely to decline anyway.

A potent new fusion of old-style human spycraft with cutting-edge technology is having a big impact on high-stakes conflicts.

And the Germans who didn’t Excerpt: " ... Fallada delivers valuable insight into the varieties of mental resistance to autocracy. The quietest kinds of opposition—what we read, what we think, what we believe—can keep autocrats paranoid, distrustful, ill at ease. Rising above cowardice can inoculate us against complicity, as some German citizens showed. And speaking out, even surreptitiously and unsuccessfully, stands in stark contrast to remaining silent. As a young woman exp

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Systemic issues with American military provisioning

DM Good evening Claude. Ready for a riddle? Good evening! Absolutely, I'm ready. I enjoy a good riddle. Go ahead! DM So, regarding our last conversation (re: our republic versus our capitalism, et al), how might the components of "friction" and "gravity" (as we humans now posit and apply those two paradigms within Pantakinesis) metaphorically relate to that conversation? Ah, what an elegant riddle! Let me think through this carefully. In our conversation about organizational

The United States should not be lobbied out of protecting its own future.

Undisclosed appendices detail Trump administration’s plan to unlock frozen Russian funds held in Europe and bring Moscow in from the cold Quick Summary U.S. peace proposals envision U.S. companies tapping a roughly $200 billion pool of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Europe seeks to use those frozen funds as a loan to Ukraine for weapons and government operations, opposing U.S. investment plans. U.S. plans include American companies investing in Russian st

A much-hyped study in the journal Nature turns out to have been full of errors.

Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to the current Federal leadershhip vectors.