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But what of the real world in which Donald Trump, a mercurial president with sole authority to fire thousands of nukes, displays deep confusion about nuclear weapons and his national-security staff ...

Today the marches are smaller and, more importantly, climate policies are being rolled back. The Economist recently called ...

I T’S EVERY New Yorker’s lament: the city is full of yellow cabs, except when you really need one. And so, when Curtis Sliwa ...

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

Luckily, Finland has just the thing: sisu—a personality trait or philosophy combining inner strength, perseverance and a ...

B EFORE CO-FOUNDING Nvidia, the pioneer of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, Jensen Huang was a busboy at Denny’s, a ...

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The shaky peace is holding, once again, largely because of American pressure. America has established a “Civil-Military ...

U NDER WHAT circumstances can federal agents use chemical irritants on children preparing for a Halloween parade? On October ...

“H ISTORY TEACHES that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap,” argued President Ronald Reagan ...

Microsoft has pulled this off while relaxing its grip on Open AI by, for instance, letting it use alternative sources of ...