Everybody is already shitting on Eric Schmitt.

Sometimes a powerful person tells you something about himself that is so disturbing that the instinct is to search for a more sophisticated…

Barack Obama recently returned to an idea he has been carrying around for years. Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Salem…

I am going to use the words war, peace and World War Three somewhat differently from the way they are normally used. That is necessary…

Abbas Araghchi is in New York, the United States and Iran are talking, and President Trump says he believes a settlement will eventually be…

Path of Exile 2 has been a buggy, high-friction, and unfun pile of dog shit from day one, and almost two years of Early Access have done…

History does not arrive to us as a finished narrative. It arrives as facts colliding through time. Men, institutions, technologies…

Alexander Vindman lost.

The principal takeaway rule of the capacity game is: Do not gamble away a capacity you may be unable to rebuild when losing the gamble can…

Vlad Vexler has raised what I think is the right concern about Mykhailo Fedorov’s sudden call for Ukraine to find a way to hold elections…

At first glance, this is just another Kyle Kulinski segment in which he gets furious with Democratic leadership. Hakeem Jeffries goes on…

Vlad Vexler has made an argument I mostly accept.

Vlad Vexler and Jake Broe almost solved an important game-theory problem without realizing they had constructed one.

I have never particularly cared about .

Jason Jay Smart is getting closer to understanding what is happening inside Russia.

I am not a political scientist. I am, however, a bit of a researcher myself. That is, after all, where the Raymond Method comes from.

The public debate over artificial intelligence is trapped between two inadequate positions. One treats large language models as emerging…

The United States did not enter the Iran war lacking military power. It entered with the most capable long-range strike force in the world…

I blocked David Pakman before Pakman released the video telling dissatisfied viewers to stop watching him. I also blocked him before The…

A settlement between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov is possible.

President Trump did not win the World Cup. Spain did.

There is a difference between analysis and sitting in front of a camera while information passes through you.

I have an immediate reaction when I encounter an obvious right-wing hack. The shilling is normally unmistakable. The talking points arrive…

Preston Stewart has just explained why this is the moment for non-MAGA Republicans to abandon President Trump.

Spaniel’s analysis of the political crisis surrounding Mykhailo Fedorov, Oleksandr Syrskyi, and President Zelenskyy is not merely…

When General Mykhailo Drapatyi was appointed commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Anna from Ukraine was ecstatic.

Vexler is right that democratic leaders must listen. But in America, listening has become theater.

Three days ago, I argued that Ukraine’s war does not hinge on Mykhailo Fedorov.

Dear Dr. Smart,

President Trump tried to prove that the Russia investigation was a hoax. Instead, he released intelligence confirming that Russia worked to…

Mykhailo Fedorov may have been an excellent defense minister. He may have accelerated Ukraine’s technological transformation, broken…

Sure, there are fringe voices celebrating the death of Lindsey Graham. Predictably, that is what many on the right want this conversation…

During my final conversation with Dell, one of its representatives asked me a remarkable question: Why had I decided to go with Dell for my…

There is an old joke about a Frenchman, sometimes called Pierre, who spends his life building useful things. He builds a bridge, but no one…

Dear Jessica,

President Trump is now acting as if starting wars is the hard part, bragging he “very successfully” started the war with Iran.

The word “extreme” has been doing fraudulent work in American politics.

The first thing, you, my dear reader, must understand is that your sense of the strategic position is actually quite poor.

Power is not strength in the abstract. Power is the rate at which harm can be imposed.

Let me say this plainly: Adam James is a dumbass, and David Pakman is a dumbass for platforming him.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool debacle matters because it gives ordinary people a number they can hold in their heads.

Some people may be surprised by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ultimatum to Belarus, but that is because they misunderstand Belarus…

History has a habit of rehabilitating people who do not deserve rehabilitation.

Vlad Vexler is worried about a real hazard.

The problem with interviewing insider-defectors is not that they have nothing useful to say. The problem is that journalists and political…

Watch the Strait Hormuz and the ordnance used.

Americans keep asking whether President Trump has a deal.

Paul Warburg’s latest video is trying to say something important. The problem is that it takes so long to say it that the argument nearly…