President Donald Trump put the artificial intelligence race in blunt terms Sunday: “whoever wins AI wins.” His comment came as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI companies to slow the development of increasingly capable frontier models and strengthen independent evaluation, industry coordination, and international safeguards. Amodei’s warning deserves serious attention. But Trump is right about […]
For decades, Washington bought into a comforting illusion: If we just welcomed developing nations into our economic system, they’d eventually adopt our values. The BRICS Summit in New Delhi just shattered that myth for good. Nations aren’t defined by empty speeches at the United Nations anymore. They’re defined by a cold, transactional reality: the company […]
Picture a shareholder meeting where the company hands out voting proxies to anyone who wandered in off the street, share certificate or not. That is roughly how America has apportioned its House of Representatives for two centuries, and on Sept. 9, the Trump administration finally proposed fixing it. The Census Bureau’s new rule, headed for […]
When we think of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, most people probably picture ballistic missiles launched from land. But North Korea’s nuclear capabilities may no longer be confined to land. On Sept. 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended the commissioning ceremony of the country’s new 5,000-ton destroyer, the Kang Kon, in Wonsan. North Korea […]
BRICS was formed to counterbalance the G7. While the G7 holds its annual summit in May, BRICS holds its own each September. This past weekend, leaders of an 11-nation bloc gathered in New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, and the joint declaration, as expected, keeps advocating a “multipolar world.” It’s worth asking, plainly: is […]
Data centers have faced a public hanging before going to trial. Proponents didn’t even have a chance to select a jury before their case was dismissed. This is a textbook example of a public relations failure. Singularly focused on regulatory burdens and land use, data center owners forgot that every plot of land has neighbors. […]
Spain currently hosts approximately 3,700 American troops at Rota and Moron but routinely bars those vital bases and its airspace whenever Washington and Jerusalem strike Iran. Italy similarly bottles up Sigonella the moment a combat sortie stops looking like basic logistics. Such diplomatic restrictions represent a host-nation veto on American power. Yet Gaza answers this veto. […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner cannot stop obsessing over President Donald Trump. Less than three weeks after suggesting the White House ballroom would be blown up, the City of Brotherly Love’s top prosecutor’s unhinged infatuation with the president continued as Krasner filmed another video critical of Trump, this time suggesting in a social media post […]
President Donald Trump’s worldview essentially consists of dividing countries into two camps: those whose leaders flatter him or kowtow to his demands and those whose leaders balk at such subservience. In this view, dictatorships — even avowed enemies of the United States — are fine, as long as they play the game. This is not […]
A common narrative claims that before 1948, the Middle East was an interfaith paradise where religious minorities enjoyed full equality. This argument exists mainly to frame Israel’s founding as the single cause of sectarian strife across the region. By depicting the pre-modern Middle East as an idyllic garden of mutual respect, critics present Jewish statehood […]
President Donald Trump’s economic D-Day is already hurting the Iranian regime’s revenues, but unilateral U.S. sanctions can only do so much. If the president wants Iran to fold, he’ll have to play a much better card — cutting it off from China by enforcing tough U.N. embargoes. Despite its name, Trump’s Operation Economic Outcast does […]
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump predicted that the Iran war would end “immediately after” the November election. On Monday, Iran and Gulf states are due to meet in Oman over passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while the Houthis have pushed to the edge of another maritime chokepoint at Bab al-Mandeb. The calendar is backward. […]
