The Art of Defeat
What the Iran War Actually Bought the U.S. — And What It's Handing Back to Iran
After more than 100 days of conflict, two rounds of major strikes, the assassination of Iran's sitting Supreme Leader, and a body count running into the...
The Invisible Hand That's Already Moving SpaceX's Stock Price
How index fund rule changes created a guaranteed buying machine for SPCX — and what it...
Insulating the President with Loyalists
By Peter Zeihan
It looks like we have a new acting Director of National Intelligence, Bill Pulte. You may know his...
The Invisible Hand That's Already Moving SpaceX's Stock Price
How index fund rule changes created a guaranteed buying machine for SPCX — and what it...
The Data-Center Panic Is Overblown
Critics are inflating the costs.
By Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic
Data centers are allegedly an unmitigated disaster: They guzzle water, strain electric grids,...
How cuts to CDC are dismantling its capacity to protect Americans’ health
By Candice Johnson, Michigan State University
Since the Trump administration took office in January...
Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities
By Zac Taylor, Delft University of Technology
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I...
How are Saudis viewing the US‑Iran war? Our polling suggests Gulf kingdom is split on key issues
By Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina and...
The Future of Drone Tech: Israel’s Iron Dome
By Peter Zeihan
Fiber-optic-controlled first-person drones are the star of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. As Hezbollah...
Our Stock Market Is Broken
By Aaron Zamost, NY Times
Mr. Zamost is a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square.
Steven Spielberg has an alien...
Art of the Sellout
China’s soft invasion of Taiwan
Courtesy of Scott Galloway, No Mercy/No Malice (originally published on May 22)
In Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark...
This Is What Corruption Looks Like
A series of recent investigations from Public Citizen, TechRadar, People Magazine, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and ProPublica...
America, the Inessential Nation
It turns out that Trump doesn’t have the cards
By Paul Krugman
On Feb. 28, 2025 Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine,...
From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
By Michael Gregory, Clemson University
When researchers...
US mortgage rates are staying high – and the Fed can do very little about it
By Michael J. Highfield, Mississippi College; Mississippi State University
U.S....
Emerging Houthi–Al‑Shabaab co‑operation and the growing threat to Red Sea shipping
By Brendon Novel, Université de Montréal
In a region crucial to global trade, ideological rivals may...
How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled
By Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Drive on Interstate 10 along the Gulf...
How cuts to CDC are dismantling its capacity to protect Americans’ health
By Candice Johnson, Michigan State University
Since the Trump administration took office in January...
Glucosamine supplements may speed memory loss from Alzheimer’s, new research shows
By Ramon Sun, University of Florida
People with Alzheimer’s disease who took the common supplement...
What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks
By Nat Lash and Patricia Callahan, ProPublica
For the DNA graphics, go to ProPublica's article here >
The U.S....
How and where the world’s 2 billion barrels of strategic oil reserves are stockpiled
By Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Drive on Interstate 10 along the Gulf...
Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer – an oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease
By Christopher Lieu, University of Colorado...
Blue Origin rocket exploded on launchpad, throwing the future of NASA’s Artemis program into question
By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
During an evening test fire...