Why Is Strategy So Difficult?

Iran Just Offered to Reopen Hormuz. Today, Russia Flies In to Broker It. Will Trump Take the Exit?

Sunday Poem

Department of Justice to fund studies of gender dysphoria and violent behavior

Who Should Defend Democracy?

The Hindu Temple Shooting Plot

The Failure of California’s Proposition 47

Watch This Snake Cartwheel Away From Danger

How intuitions work

The Business at Hand

Weak Institutions and the AI Scare

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

A Middle-Powers Grand Strategy to Prevent Atrocities

Most authors have little cash. Scammers target them anyway. Why? Their egos make them good marks 

Magic mushroom compound may prevent chemotherapy pain

NSF backs choice of new Antarctic contractor despite concerns by government watchdog and researchers

The canonization of Peter Hujar. Known for his photographs of the oversexed New York art scene, his work is finally receiving its due

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

Review of “Yakuza” by Andrew Rankin

From the Great Sphinx’s Raw Materials, a New Crocodile Species Surfaces