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Annie Jacobsen: ‘What if We Had a Nuclear War?’
Annie Jacobsen in New Scientist: As an investigative journalist, I write about war, weapons, national…
An AI Deal as a Diplomatic Weapon
A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical…
How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?
Anil Ananthaswamy in Quanta: In January 2022, researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, reported that these…
Traveling At The Speed Of The Soul
Nick Hunt in Noema: Returning home after being away for any length of time is strange….
Israel-Iran Conflict: High Chances of War
Did Iran destroy Israel’s largest Air Base? Big confession by Israel? Some talking points on…
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr at The New Yorker (from 1995): The two weeks spanning the…
War: An Opportunity for Spending?
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Republicans confirmed yesterday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) plans to attempt to…
Wednesday Poem: Stenographer
Kathleen A. Wakefield: While Taking a Nap, the Invisible Stenographer Dreams She Can Play With…
Kerala: One Indian State, Four Exhilarating Ways
Scott Hocker at The Week: Kerala is a microcosm of India itself. The 360-mile-long sliver…
The New World (Dis)order
Irshad Salim, Karachi: Back in the summer of 2020, I drew an illustration on a…
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nukes?
by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then…
The Enduring Pain of Postcolonial Trauma
Farah Abdessamad at Aeon: In 1952, the 27-year-old Frantz Fanon had just published his first…