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Riyadh asked Washington to strike. Washington offered intelligence. That gap is the story of a security order coming apart.
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With the U.S. sidelined, BRICS powers reshape Gulf politics as Saudi Arabia seeks survival strategies.
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Identity laundering has a face right now, and it’s Kanye West, selling out arenas on schedule.
How does Peter Thiel reckon his techno-fascist empire with the morals of Tolkien?
It’s been happening in front of us all along… It was never a secret
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Acknowledging the costs points us toward restorative justice
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Apple doesn’t need to make its most powerful Mac. It needs to make a Mac whose power is allocated differently
I thought I was paying off the debt of my guilt, but my kid’s pronouns are part of the interest
Will any of them become new favorites of mine? I sure hope so!
On September 9, the prestigious Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published “Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before…
This can only happen in Wisconsin, the cheese capital of the United States
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The elements of that horrible day persist, a generation later.
There’s a name for what a stadium full of people swearing personal loyalty to one man is designed to produce, and it isn’t patriotism.
I don’t know how relaxed Monet was when he painted “Bridge over a pond of water lilies”, but I sure as heck sweat through the LEGO build.
Giant sequoias, thousands of years old, dot acres of rich granite, majestic meadows, massive waterfalls, iconic rock climbing, and vast…
As photos flood the Web and photo recognition technology becomes more widespread and precise, are we approaching an unsettling tipping…
There’s a name for what happens when a public figure dehumanizes a target and lets the crowd fill in the rest. It happened twice in one…
It took me a while to get my account approved and verified. But here I am after spending the first 24 hours on W Social, the European…
Thinking about climate change is not something that comes naturally to humans — or ‘consumers’ as we have called ourselves for decades. It…
The native of Japan has been a pleasant surprise during his first season with MBFC
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This is vacationing on a budget. It’s all we can do these days. So Julia and John are using one queen-sized bed and Sebastian and I have…
Two and a half thousand years apart, and from entirely different disciplines, Buddhist philosophy and quantum mechanics arrived at the same…
After working on model training for OpenAI and Anthropic for the last three years, Jacob Coxon announced a very public resignation on X on…
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
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