Why the comet 3I/Atlas still fascinates
Comets mark our progress, our sense of wonder and our fears
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Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires
The country’s tycoons are abandoning old orthodoxies with speed
King Charles will make a splash at US-250
As in 1976, the British royal family hopes to promote the ‘Special Relationship’
George Santos’s prison diary
Trump’s reprieve was a gift from God
Is Donald Trump a game theorist?
There may be method to his madness
Why Thomas Sowell still matters
His aphoristic style fits the era of short attention spans
Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election
The previous election was rife with anomalies
Putin thinks time is on his side
He is now willing to stake all on victory in the field
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
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
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?
