2025-11-24 23:39:04
When the captain has no compass, the crew starts fighting over nautical charts and the rudder. So it is with the United States, which now has several foreign policies rather than one, as factions inside Donald Trump’s White House wrestle over how to deal with Russia and Ukraine, as well as Venezuela and much else. The primary victim is Ukraine, which must fear for not only its sovereignty but its “dignity.” The collateral damage is the world.
2025-11-24 22:40:33
There is a Zohran Mamdani makeover happening. Much of it is coming with the help of President Donald Trump, who has emerged as an unlikely supporter of the man he derided as a communist not too long ago. The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist and incoming New York City mayor has gone from being a GOP boogeyman to being lauded by Trump, who said Mamdani’s “going to surprise some conservative people.”
2025-11-24 19:30:33
After days of chaos, hundreds of deaths and trillions of dollars wiped off stock markets, the Great Agentic Cascade of July 2028 turned out to have begun much like the great internet outages of October and November 2025: with a minor bug at a major provider on which many of the world’s biggest internet services depended to manage their traffic. But in the intervening three years, the world had gone all-in on agentic AI — systems that can make and carry out decisions without human intervention.
2025-11-24 19:00:33
There are two big worries when it comes to the rapid advances in artificial intelligence. The first is that it will lead to robot overlords that will eradicate humanity. The second is that AI will eliminate many jobs. The more likely scenario is that it creates a labor shortage, or at least a dearth of skilled workers who can make the most of the new technology.
2025-11-24 18:30:33
The most astonishing feature of Donald Trump’s decade as one of the most dominant figures in American politics is his ability to make the unthinkable seem not only thinkable, but possible. The president’s latest attempts to push the boundaries of what is conceivable — and legal — in our system of government include claims that his Justice Department “owes him a lot of money” for previous federal investigations and repeated suggestions that he might seek a third term — a move which would violate
2025-11-24 18:00:33
The competing demands of progress and liberty have long caused tension in liberal thought, especially in regard to relations between the West and the Rest. Bill Easterly’s marvelous new book, Violent Saviors, charts this ambivalence through the rise and fall of colonialism and up to the present day. Despite this historical reach, the questions it raises are contemporary and urgent.
