The secret life of Agent Melania
The former Slovenian supermodel clearly has no great love for Vladimir Putin
Politics
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Wednesday
Trayon White is DC’s Donald Trump
Despite being accused of taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, the DC councilman still won reelection
Trump should bring the Fed to heel
The ‘independent Fed’ is a myth
Gun-toting Newsom’s alpha male rebrand
What do young men like? Guns, sports, cursing, podcasts. Great – let’s make that the new Newsom
Tuesday
Prizes, bets and venture capital: how Democrats plan to win
This is even funnier because the Democratic party has the answer right in front of them
The real threat of AI is spiritual
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
What happens when AI surpasses humans?
Old technology doesn’t disappear because it’s bad: it disappears because it’s outcompeted
The race to superintelligence
Whoever owns the winning model will wield unimaginable power
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’