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2024-12-17 |
Three Decades of Bad Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Scott Horton) Scott’s anti-war libertarianism and his new book, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine ... How the US made the Russia-Ukraine war more likely ... Was Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution a US-backed co... |
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2024-12-14 |
Are Neocons Taking over Trump 2.0? (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and James Carden) ... |
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2024-12-12 | Syria’s uncertain political future ... Has the Islamist rebel group HTS actually moderated? ... The extent of retributive violence since Assad fell ... Syria's complicated factional divides ... America's control of Syrian oil fields ... Headin... |
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2024-12-10 |
Covid: The Evidence Against Natural Origin (Robert Wright & Yuri Deigin) Yuri’s high-stakes debate on Covid’s origins ... Pros and cons of Covid vaccines ... Do Covid “coincidences” point to a lab leak? ... Does the pattern of Covid’s initial spread suggest zoonotic origin? ... Why the Wuhan market may have amplified ... |
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2024-12-07 |
Is the Assad Regime Collapsing (Andrew Day, Connor Echols, and Bassam Barabandi) ... |
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2024-12-05 |
Debating the Hunter Biden Pardon (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) A masterclass in audience alienation ... Paul defends Biden’s paternal pardon ... Should family come before societal good? ... The costs of the Hunter pardon ... Was Hunter the victim of a witch hunt? ... Elon sues OpenAI (again) ... Heading to ... |
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2024-11-27 | Anthropic’s CEO comes out as a China hawk ... Why so many China hawks in the AI community? ... Gaming out the AGI takeoff timeline ... Last year’s OpenAI coup: What did Ilya see? ... Underappreciated dangers of the China chip war ... Are US tech l... |
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2024-11-23 |
Bibi's Legal Troubles, Trump's Confirmation Struggles (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols) ... |
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2024-11-21 |
Back Down the JFK Rabbit Hole (Robert Wright & Jefferson Morley) Bob’s trip down the JFK rabbit hole gets real ... Will Trump release the JFK files? ... What the CIA actually knew about Oswald, pre-assassination ... The damning Oswald-CIA connection Jeff uncovered ... Was there a second shooter? Bob’s on-the-gro... |
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2024-11-20 |
Elon vs Bluesky, Jake Paul vs Tyson, AI vs World Peace (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) Are Bluesky pastures really greener? ... Dissecting SciAm editor’s Bluesky blowup ... Elon’s free speech stolen valor ... The “highlights” of the Paul-Tyson “fight” ... Has the military-industrial complex conquered the AI industry? ... Heading t... |
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