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Wednesday
Humans are more than just apes
Unlike chimps, we have an alarming willingess to believe what we’re told
Pope Leo is following in Francis’s footsteps
The new pope refuses to discipline bishops who move against traditionalists
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war
Wokeness ended my backroom Jeopardy! habit
A bootleg re-enactment of the game succumbed to petty drama
Michael Heath on 75 years at The Spectator
The magazine’s longtime cartoonist speaks
The return of Erik Prince
The former head of Blackwater is becoming a prominent MAGA voice
How chess killed Danya Naroditsky
His passion for the game led to his suicide last month
3I, the interstellar object that’s baffling astronomers
Internet lunatics and hopped-up podcasters are spinning fantastic tales about an extraterrestrial spacecraft
Live-translation AirPods are the future
The guide babbles away and I stand here beaming – I understand every word
What Islam can teach us about AI
With both the djinn and AI, we encounter answers that sound true, feel true, but lead us miles off the path
Tuesday
Trump’s border policy is beginning to bear fruit
It is no longer so easy for the cartels to bring personnel, drugs and weapons across the border
Why is Stephen Miller so divisive?
It’s no stretch to say that, other than Trump himself, Miller is the most important figure steering American politics today
From Russia with love
I was told by US officials and online that if I went back to the US I would be imprisoned or worse
How Israel won the war – and lost the PR battle
The Jewish state has won. But at what cost?
How the drug cartels are ‘diversifying’ into baby-trafficking
Many of the women were lured with promises of easy cash jobs during the final months of pregnancy
How Alex Jones won
A mixture of Martin Luther King Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard, he is our greatest living orator
Trump inherited a weaponized justice system
The President’s vigorous effort to call to account those who waged lawfare against him is a necessary purgative
Why the Army needs the cavalry
Yes, the horses were a throwback to a bygone era, but isn’t the Army proud of its history?
Should the Nord Stream saboteurs be extradited to Germany?
Berlin prosecutors see the operation as an attack on Germany – the Poles see it as an attack on Russia