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Trump maintains that the United States is winning its war against Iran
All to rationalize the attempted bombing of a synagogue.View Post
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses social media’s “subversion of the ability to pay attention on a species-wide level,” how policymakers are intervening, and what more we should be doing to protect children
The article explores the challenges and complexities of middle-sized wars, highlighting their often overlooked consequences and the difficulties in achieving lasting resolutions.
This conversation with Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was recorded at the a16z American Dynamism Summit in Washington, D.C. Michael walks through how he inherited a department running 14 undefined technology priorities, cut them to six, and made applied AI number one. He also gives the first detailed account of why commercial AI contracts written under the previous administration created a vendor-lock cr...
Dimitri Simes defected to the U.S. in the seventies and was a proud American for five decades, until he was criminally charged with a Soviet-style offense: being a journalist
Spikes in popular support for bad, but seemingly minor, anti-market policies can quickly spiral into more serious problems
President Donald Trump introduced the Trump retirement accounts (TRA) in his 2026 State of the Union address. This brief presents a one-, ten-, and 40-year cost analysis of the TRA and offers insights into its policy implications
Israel’s war in Gaza has caused high numbers of maternal and neonatal deaths, say two reports