The race to superintelligence
Whoever owns the winning model will wield unimaginable power
Politics
Read about the latest political news, views and analysis
Tuesday
Should AI have rights?
Some scientists believe they might be creating life
How should AI be regulated?
The mistakes and successes of earlier tech revolutions should be pondered
The 2020s are too far-fetched for fiction
There are too many loose ends. Too many vanishing subplots
The internet is dying and so are we
If we aren’t dead inside already, tech is doing its best
What’s the matter with Chicago?
The city was always corrupt. Now it is broken
Where is Jared Kushner?
To call the shots in Trumpland, it helps to operate behind the scenes
The mullahs mean their threats
By and large, the West has grudgingly accommodated Iran’s petulant malevolence
How progressivism killed American Protestantism
Time and again, ministry to the faithful took a back seat to left-wing orthodoxy
Will we stop Saudi Arabia developing a nuclear weapon?
The Saudis have poured money into other people’s bomb-making programs
DoGE, alligators, public land and Mamdani mania
Despite Elon and Trump’s public fallout, DoGE is still slashing away at the federal workforce
Who replaces the ayatollahs if the Iranian regime falls?
Whatever happens, it seems unlikely that any regime change will be peaceful
Why President Trump can’t stop talking to reporters
‘He has to be, by a country mile, the most accessible president in the history of the presidency’
The lessons of Ron Paul
The former congressman showed what an anti-establishment campaign within the GOP could achieve
Can Clarksdale find its mojo again?
Bubba’s campaign had been a message of Christianity combined with doomsday prophecy
How Trump can win the Nobel Peace Prize
The history of the prize, like history itself, is messy
Monday
Has Putin turned Trump into a Russia hawk?
The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast
Will Trump rename soccer?
Asked if he’d issue an executive order renaming it football, Trump said ‘I think we can do that’
Biden attempts to straighten the record on his autopen
‘The autopen is, you know, is legal,’ Biden said
Biden admits he had no idea who he pardoned with autopen
And we’re supposed to applaud this as efficiency
