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U.S. President fires everyone who could stop his White House destruction
Here’s a breakdown of what the CFA does, who was on the board, and what happens next.
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Oct 31, 20251 min read
All Voting Is Local Is Building Democracy The Only Way It Works: Locally, Patiently, Together
How do you protect a right that was never designed for everyone? For Hannah Fried, this isn’t abstract. It’s the daily work of making sure ordinary people can do an extraordinary thing: cast a ballot and have it count.
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
What Palantir Sees
The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war.
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk.
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
The three forces redefining how the world works
I was reminded of these new forces during a visit to Silicon Valley last week where major tech CEOs said the same thing: “Long term is now six months.”
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
How U.S. Billionaires Stack Up With the Rest of the World
There are 3,508 billionaires on the planet. U.S. dominate their collective wealth.
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
A Post-Literate Age
Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
Top U.S. Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases (Ominous Signal?)
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers. Somewhat related? Distantly related Hopefully distantly related More about that And then there's the money aspect
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Oct 30, 20251 min read
Fully MAGA-fied Christianity
Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
Chris Murphy encourages U.S. to wake up
The senator from Connecticut once looked like the future of Democratic politics. These days, he worries about whether democracy has a future.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
U.S. Impending Population Collapse
This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will enter.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
J. B. Pritzker’s Dark Visions
Twenty-seven minutes with the latest governor Donald Trump wants arrested
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
One of Humanity’s Earliest Ritual Sites?
In a secluded Botswana cave, a natural stone outcropping was carved to resemble a python. Archaeologists think this could be one of the world’s earliest ritual sites.
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Oct 29, 20251 min read
As some DEI critics say victory is near, companies face new pushback over rollbacks
After years of whiplash over diversity policies, businesses remain caught between conflicting regulatory requirements, frustrated consumers and their employees.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
U.S.' Leadership Are Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power
By rejecting the lessons of the previous century, the president has undermined America’s advantage over China and Russia.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Canada Needs a New Besti
Trump’s attacks on long-standing allies are changing the balance of global power.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
What Amazon’s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing
Executives have echoed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s talking points, tying their job cuts to expected gains from AI and nimbler operations.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Problems with A.I. abstinence
A consumer movement against artificial intelligence is misaligned with the business model—and the threat.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against climate alarmism and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change.
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
The U.S. radiation dichotomy
Tighter regulations on cell phones, less on nuclear plants?
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Oct 28, 20251 min read
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