A president threatening an ally over a prize, a Pentagon turning an execution into content, and the backlash building against both.

Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.

The close of the Trump era leaves us with a choice: more decline or a return to seriousness.

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

On September 2, 2025, as Trump continued to deploy National Guard troops in American cities and openly blustered about militarizing American streets, I wrote an explainer about the law prohibiting fed...

One big idea to combat the corruption

My keynote at ICML 2026

Warriors for Democracy Don’t Necessarily Have to March

80% support voter ID. 28% support the SAVE Act. The more people learn, the less they support it. Here's what's actually in it — provision by provision, with primary sources.

Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

The man Trump wants to jail sat down on live TV and calmly explained that the rule of law in America is being dismantled in real time — and that we haven’t seen anything yet.

The president celebrates only some Americans. But patriotism is not about who is in the Oval Office.

And the existential threat he poses

Coding agents as normal technology

The president may make the announcement on June 14, his own birthday, or on July 4, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal

Chats with AI bots have convinced evolutionary biologist but most experts say he is being misled by mimicry

I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.

YouTube video by Sam Harris

On the bright side, perhaps Emmer is self-aware about his habit of saying one thing — "watching the rhetoric" — and doing another.

Inside the federal campaign to sow distrust in elections

Much of the criticism aimed at Trump for taking the United States  into the ruinous Iran war concerns his alleged authoritarian departure from constitutional norms. A loud chorus online and in the pre...

Planting is underway and spring conditions have been good across much of Minnesota. But even so, some farmers are electing to sit out a year.

Tina Smith joined nine senators in seeking answers on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in weakening civilian harm prevention programs and the catastrophic civilian impacts of President Trump’s...

Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

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OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?

QUEEN should be beyond proud of this beautiful use of their iconic song. All blessings to the Hungarian people. They showed us how to do it, folks!

And How to Stop It

BEIRUT (AP) — Deadly Israeli strikes have hit central Beirut despite a ceasefire announcement in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.