[This short story traces an imaginary future history of the US.] The “United States of America” lasted 12 centuries, although it has long been based primarily in Europe. Today, the last US president, ...

The latest and most exciting development in artificial intelligence is the set of technologies broadly dubbed as generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”). At the core of GenAI are large language ...

In Part 1, we began a discussion of the arguments developed by economist Jeffrey Sachs concerning the historical causes and geopolitical lessons to be drawn from the war in Ukraine. Sachs, like many ...

Following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December, the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham government is turning heads. The international community remains skeptical this al-Qaeda-affiliated ...

Your pushback is exactly why AI—if it is to be useful for dialogue—must be careful not to adopt establishment framings as default truths. My initial response showed a bias toward prevailing Western ...

Last April, in a move generating scant media attention, the Air Force announced that it had chosen two little-known drone manufacturers — Anduril Industries of Costa Mesa, California, and General ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. A ...

(Love that is scared is not love… it is debauchery, it is crime.) An artist often holds a concept close to his heart and works upon it for several years, before he finally manages to create an ...

What is behind US President Donald Trump’s bromance with Russian President Vladimir Putin? Is it essentially personal? Is there a strategy involved? Is it ideological? Is it the first step within a ...