This ABC Showdown Is Different

For What AI Could Do to Democracies, Look to the Petrostates

The Real Reason Republicans Are Dropping out of Midterm Races Before They Even Begin

The Iran war proves that U.S. economic coercion is weakening

The White House Is a Fortress. It’s Not Supposed to Look Like One.

How The Iran War May Play A Role in the Midterms

A Requiem for the Voting Rights Act

The Next Attorney General Will Probably Be an Election Denier

Iran’s Minorities Will Pay the Price for Trump’s War. A battered Iranian regime is looking for scapegoats.

What Iran Wants From the War

Trump Is Betraying Iran’s Pro-Democracy Protesters. He toyed with their hopes, raising expectations he never meant to fulfill.

Will Trump deploy U.S. troops to Iran to seize uranium?  Nuclear experts say the seizure of Iran's uranium would be a risky, complicated project that would require a significant ground presence.

Iran’s Bombing of Qatar Just Made This War a Hell of a Lot More Complicated

The Hostile Corporate Takeover of an Entire Country

What Trump May Do if He Loses in Iran. The president’s go-to playbook in the face of defeat would be especially dangerous in the context of war.

James Talarico’s Campaign Is Breaking the Brains of American Evangelicals. Turns out, Jesus has no political party. But don’t tell these guys that.

What If the United States Seizes Kharg Island?

US intelligence elevates AI as a top global threat in new report

What’s Going on With the IRS?

There’s a Reason No President Before Trump Authorized War With Iran

Trump Had No Plan B for Iran. And it shows.

‘A Moment of Grave Peril’ Aid agencies warn that the Iran war will deepen humanitarian crises across the region.

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done. Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Deepfakes are Already Shaping Opinions Around Conflicts. Governments and companies must do more to detect and debunk them.

Trump May Not Be Able to End This War

A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory

Trump’s War Lacks a Marketing Plan. Why does a president who loves selling not want to pitch this conflict?

The Republican Party Continues Eating Its Own. What one lawmaker’s defection from the GOP says about the state of politics.

Did Trump plan the war with Iran months earlier?

NEWS: Iran Escalates War After Trump Declares Victory, Iranian Hackers Hit U.S. Company, Allies Admit They Don’t Know Trump’s Plan open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Trump Cares a Little Too Much About Shoes. Doesn’t he have more important things to think about?

The X algorithm really is trying to radicalize you—researchers just proved it

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Exclusive: HSI, a branch of DHS that usually investigates drug cartels and human-trafficking networks, is probing the 2020 election results in Arizona, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Nick Miroff report: theatln.tc/HJwh0Oqs

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Few U.S. Doctors Have Seen Measles in Person. That’s a Problem.

Trump’s War Is Taking a Toll on Aviation. The $8 trillion air freight industry faces huge challenges due to the war in the Middle East.

The Texas Senate Runoffs Are Going to Be a Bloodbath

Trump assaulted renewable energy. Now America is more vulnerable to Iran fossil fuel shocks

What this Texas Republican primary revealed about the politics of AI data centers. Sid Miller warned that server farms were swallowing farmland and draining rural water supplies. Republican voters weren’t persuaded.

OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying. Whether it means to or not.

Trump Has Lost the Plot in Iran

Trump’s Unauthorized War. The Constitution grants Congress, not the president, the power to mobilize the military—and for good reason.

Anyone Else Worried About the New Virus That’s Hitting California? I’m sure RFK Jr. isn’t.

Jet fuel prices just jumped 80%. Will airline tickets get more expensive next?

The Pentagon-Anthropic feud is quietly obscuring the real fight over military AI

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem

How Iran Could Retaliate Around the World. The regime is weakened but has very little to lose.

Operation Epic Confusion. Trump’s goals in Iran are expansive, shifting, and potentially impossible.