Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]
Read more...‘Emotional loading’ is a technique used in the coverage of Bondi Beach to shape the narrative and sideline critical analysis
Read more...MAGA’s Messaging Meltdown this week has seen the Trump team failing utterly in their area of core competence: controlling the narrative and somebody might just get themselves fired over it.
Read more...Since decolonization, Africa has experienced a succession of wars whose combined death toll likely reaches into the tens of millions—mostly from indirect causes such as displacement, famine, and state collapse rather than combat itself. This article surveys major post-1960 conflicts, argues against monocausal explanations, and examines how persistent misreading of African political dynamics has led to repeated and costly foreign policy failures, particularly by the United States.
Read more...Last week, POTUS Donald Trump lost his battle to bully Indiana Republicans into redrawing their congressional districts, are we seeing Trump 2.0’s mojo bleeding out as MAGA’s civil war continues?
Read more...The Good, Part the First: Basic Science Has the Answer, Once Again. T cells of the immune system are responsible for the establishment of self-tolerance and adaptive immune function. T cells come from the thymus, which is mammals basically disappears early in life in a process called involution. Understanding how the thymus might regenerate has […]
Read more...Doha Forum in Qatar reveals how today’s global debates feed the larger machine of growth and power, with little space for divergent thinking
Read more...The GOP has succeeded in luring U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett into entering the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Time will tell if they regret getting their wish, but progressives should be under no illusion about her politics.
Read more...The 2025 National Security Strategy is being read as another Trumpist manifesto, but buried in the text is something far more consequential: Washington’s first formal admission that Full Spectrum Dominance is dead. The NSS concedes that the US can no longer fund the military, industrial, and diplomatic machinery required for unipolar primacy, and quietly writes the obituary for the post–Cold War order it was supposed to sustain.
Read more...Informational force feeding via digital news deluge, deliberate disinformation, and divisiveness is turning our brains to pâté and Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Larry and David Ellison, and the Palantir bros are among those cooking up the foie gras.
Read more...American Science, Shattered. So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News. Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summarize them here as they appear. Unlike most accounts of the current state of science in the United States, the authors of this article have found scientists who […]
Read more...Deviant thinking is on the decline as AI mirrors consensus instead of challenging it, making us more homogeneous and complacent toward power.
Read more...Trump insider deals in crypto, AI, and drones appear to be taking a hit, mirroring his rapidly declining public support. What will this mean for AI czar David Sacks, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, the Lutnicks and especially Don Junior and Eric?
Read more...DARPA once defined the frontier of U.S. technological power, developing the foundations of stealth, networking, and precision-guided warfare. Today its most capable prototypes routinely die in the “valley of death,” casualties of political caution, industrial consolidation, and perverse incentives that punish programs for succeeding. This article examines how DARPA went from the nation’s most creative engine of capability to an agency whose breakthroughs are celebrated but rarely fielded—and what this reveals about America’s broader institutional decline.
Read more...The personnel decisions of the Trump national security regime provide a key to better understanding the administration. The stupid doesn’t just happen, it’s made to happen.
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