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Trump’s Arab American allies in Michigan are jumping ship. Mike Rogers could pay the price.

Four days before the 2024 election, Donald Trump declared in Dearborn, Michigan that “the Muslim population” is “liking Trump.” On Election Day, the state’s Arab Americans helped deliver Trump...

Trump indicates support for Christian-backed plan to help Canadian Jews escape antisemitism

Trump amplified a plan for expedited legal pathways for Jewish Canadians fleeing antisemitic persecution as Christian lawmakers press his administration.

Massive AI boom puts one of America’s oldest manufacturers on path to double in size, CEO says

Corning is partnering with NVIDIA to build three optical-manufacturing facilities as AI data centers drive unprecedented demand for glass fiber.

Trump just brokered a deal with the country sitting atop the world’s largest oil reserves

President Donald Trump's Venezuela oil deal targets 65 billion barrels across 17 fields, but major infrastructure hurdles stand before pump relief.

On AI, let’s not replicate the gain-of-function failures

I’m not a science guy, and chances are, neither are you. But when you start to notice that a series of controversial tech-related headlines are starting to sound an awful lot like a previous science-driven, pandemic-causing tech disaster, maybe it’s time for us lay-folk to weigh in and point out the obvious.  I am an […]

The House should reject delay of hemp regulations

Congress has already taken the necessary steps to close the dangerous “hemp loophole.” Now, the House of Representatives has a simple choice: uphold the law and protect children, or grant the intoxicating hemp industry another opportunity to profit from an addiction-for-profit business model. The Senate recently passed a continuing resolution that would delay implementation of […]

Flock safety called its critics ‘terrorists.’ Now it wants to be your privacy savior

Surveillance tech vendor Flock Safety is making some changes to both its policies and messaging following months of backlash over its products — namely, its automatic license plate readers, commonly referred to as ALPRs. Often presented by proponents as an indispensable crime-fighting tool for 21st-century policing, the devices have long been criticized by groups such as the […]

Mars will need cowboys, not committees

In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what happens when inherited moral maps lose their force, and human beings must create values from strength rather than receive them. The anniversary is worth marking for a second reason. At the same […]

AI isn’t making art. It’s selling us fake intimacy

Even an illusion has a basis in reality. Recently, I watched a cardinal attack its own reflection in a car mirror, mistaking its appearance for another bird. Human beings make similar mistakes in subtler ways. Every work of art appears to place another consciousness before us. Whether watching a magic trick or standing before a […]

Your doctor has to beg AI for permission to save your life

The practice of medicine requires a high level of personal accountability. Physicians make life-or-death decisions every day, accepting the profound legal and ethical duties that come with caring for human lives. Yet, the greatest source of daily stress for healthcare providers is no longer the complexity of human disease. It is the invisible wall of […]

Gavin Newsom thinks UC professors are as stupid as he is

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is capable of deciding that he wants to run to become the leader of the free world, but the California governor can’t take a stand on a question as simple as whether the University of California system ought to heed the warning from 1,200 professors that they “now observe preparation gaps […]

RFK Jr. wanted ‘gold standard’ science. mRNA just delivered it

In less than three weeks, American medicine produced two milestones worth noticing. On Aug. 5, the Food and Drug Administration approved MFLUSIVA, Moderna’s influenza vaccine for adults 50 and older — the first flu vaccine in the United States built with messenger RNA, or mRNA. Two weeks later, Moderna and Merck announced positive Phase 3 […]

From ‘kill her’ chants to broken ribs: Australia’s Trump moment is here

Whether it’s the President Donald Trump assassination attempts, the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, or the assassination of Charlie Kirk, America seems riddled with political violence.  This might seem all too common in America, but what if this isn’t simply an American phenomenon?  Australia is beginning to show some of the […]

Energy, infrastructure, and America’s hidden arms race with China

In early 2022, China launched the Eastern Data and Western Compute initiative, a cornerstone of President Xi Jinping’s long-standing ambition to establish Chinese dominance in artificial intelligence. The logic behind the EDWC is simple: AI relies on data centers, and data centers require massive amounts of power. While China’s population — and therefore most of […]

The irresistible lure of duty-free shopping

We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]

A neglected book makes the case for birds

At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]

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