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If we have been strained waging a limited war against Iran, imagine the challenges of a confrontation with Russia or China
There’s no guarantee that Trump’s latest birthright citizenship orders will stand up in court, but they reflect a more serious effort to work within existing law while pushing its borders
The power that agencies wield is fundamentally legislative, not executive
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under…
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through…
Five years ago, the most powerful media companies in the world—Facebook and Twitter, as it was then called—chose to deplatform Donald Trump. They cited public safety concerns following the. The post The Truth About Truth API appeared first on First Things
Morning all, We’re well into silly season, arguably augmented this year by one particularly articulate rubbish receptable. In anticipation of next week’s hotly contested by-election, we’ve rustled up a Chart of the week that considers the performance of both the not-entirely-serious and the downright extra-terrestrial candidates in recent by-elections. Plus, we’ve got plenty of insights into AI … Continued The post Sycophantic bots, silly-season ballots, and sticky prices appeared first on Re...
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