1956—So much for basing Supreme Court selections on short-term political calculations. Informed by his campaign advisers that appointing a Catholic Democrat from the Northeast...
On Sept. 26, a Coast Guard crew patrolling the Rio Grande near Garceño, in Starr County, Texas, came under gunfire from the Mexican side of the river. The crew returned fire. No Americans were hurt, according to the Coast Guard, but the message was unmistakable. A week later, U.S. Northern Command announced it was sending […]
The Trump administration has offered Alexander Lukashenko an end to international isolation: In return for releasing hundreds of political prisoners, Belarus is getting increased sanctions relief. Lukashenko has ruled Belarus, a former Soviet republic bordering Russia and Ukraine, since 1994. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarus’s opposition leader in exile, welcomes the negotiations. Her husband was among those […]
On Oct. 25, the people of Latin America’s largest democracy and economy will vote in a presidential runoff. Neither the conservative candidate, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, nor the socialist incumbent, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), secured an outright majority in the first round of voting. Bolsonaro is the favorite. Recent polls show him […]
Computers don’t have rights. No matter how smart they are. That may sound like an obvious, even unnecessary statement, but in the effective altruist world occupied by some companies building superintelligence, that’s a controversial and possibly even offensive reality. Just last week, Anthropic said it’s going to restrict what it calls “abusive behavior” towards its […]
