Iran isn’t going to let this one go: An attack on an oil tanker near Qatar, deep inside the Persian Gulf, has raised fears among traders that a surge in strikes on shipping is spreading beyond the Str...

A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney said Monday that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss “election integrity” and plans for upco...

Imminent electoral apocalypse certainly isn’t making Donald Trump less racist: Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency [image or embed] — Laura ...

What, exactly, do these people think they’re accomplishing?

By bullying the EU to withdraw funding from the Disinfo2026 conference, Sarah Rogers engaged in the kind of retaliation DOJ had assured Judge Boasberg they would not do.

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers pressured the EU, Lithuania, and Canada into pulling support for a disinformation conference that already had pulled its punches when disc...

Yet another update on the running AI discussion. Here’s an interview Ezra...

President Donald Trump has in recent weeks unveiled multiple schemes to send...

A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...

The alarm bells are ringing. Five House Democrats appeared at a shadow...

This is an update to my post from Tuesday about the “existential...

The Florida Election Lab is tracking the early vote in the midterms. As I’ve mentioned it’s hard for somebody born in the 50s (h/t Sting) to adjust to the fact that “the election” is now a several wee...

Pete Hegseth denies existence of germs, saying: ‘I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real’

Jamie Raskin gets it: President Donald Trump may get a show at the Smithsonian, though not as he might have hoped. On October 6, representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland introduced a bill directing off...

Every post about the unfitness of the AI community to advise us on a path forward should begin with the observation that nobody else wants a world of data centers. I certainly prefer this to a giganti...

Sure, Ken Paxton is comically unfit for office, but he also has awful policy views: Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton suggested he would support cuts to federal benefits programs during a priv...

Remember when Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust? President Donald Trump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in M...

The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.