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What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding ...

Ever since the United States and Israel began their war against Iran last weekend, Tehran has fought back with rocket and drone strikes across the Middle East—in Bahrain, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, ...

Anthropic’s principled stand continues to pose enormous risks for the company. But some early indications suggest that it ...

Think of how often you’ve been told that a certain movie or TV show is “exactly what we need right now.” During Trump’s first term, these direct, if unsubtle, approaches felt like honest reactions to ...

Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

This means that highly effective military operations are taking place in a strategic vacuum. Worse, Donald Trump is now pointing to these missions as if the excellence with which they have been ...

From the moment the first Iranian missiles appeared in the sky over the Persian Gulf this past weekend, the target countries’ ...

Outside OpenAI’s headquarters, a handful of people gathered on Monday holding pieces of colorful chalk. They got down on ...

But the contrast between the two sides’ goals came into relief soon after last weekend’s strikes, which killed dozens of ...