Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. (Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times) Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the ...

· BRICS Is Sliding Towards Irrelevance –the Rio Summit Made That Clear · Coups in West Africa Have Five Things in Common: Knowing What They Are Is Key to Defending Democracy · Iran’s Collapse Could ...

Trump Embarrasses the Pentagon with a U-turn on Ukraine (Economist) His decision to resume arms shipments is a victory for common sense—while it lasts. The affair is a reminder that not even Mr. Trump ...

· After War with Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge · A Peace Agreement That Will Probably Not Bring Peace · How Europe Got Tough on Migration · Refugees Worry: Is Nicaragua Assassinating ...

Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated. Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for ...

MIDDLE EAST · Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him · 12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb? · Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again if Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium ...

OUR PICKS Senate Kills AI-law Moratorium | Pentagon Will No Longer Share Satellite Data That Tracks Hurricanes | Catholic Bishops Try to Rally Opposition to Trump’s Immigration Agenda, and more ...

The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of us. Right-Wing Extremism: Brutally Young (Jan Heidtmann, Iris Mayer, and ...

As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned ...

One thing I think that this attack signals is that there’s a big distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear states in that you can do whatever you want to a non-nuclear state. It would be much harder ...

· The Fog of Disaster Is Getting Worse · Johnson Won’t Say Biden Won in 2020, Raising Worries on 2024’s Process · As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him · Why Legal ...

New report says SBINet failed because the U.S. government rushed into it without a well-thought-out plan and without a sufficiently tight supervision of the prime contractor, Boeing; “Instead, [SBINet ...