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Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Zelensky has his eye on the World's oil crisis by letting Russia export crude but still pounds Russian refineries supplying domestic needs
Russia Ships the Most Crude in Over a Month as Port Attacks Ease
Ukraine’s drone strikes switch back to refineries, allowing Moscow to boost seaborne flows
Trump has a wonderful out on Iran by blaming the withdrawal on Congress
By Week’s End, Trump’s War Will Be Plainly Illegal
Mr. Chemerinsky is the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
You cannot threaten the free world and lead it at the same time. No nation can match American might, but for the first time in my adult life, the moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington. It doesn’t beat in London or Paris or Berlin or Ottawa, either. It’s in Kyiv, where a courageous leader and a courageous people have picked up the torch America has dropped.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Start with the reframe: The goal of working with AI isn’t to get the answer faster. It’s to find out what you’re missing. Don’t deploy AI minions to “do the boring work” for you, as so many sales pitches argue; use it as a savant collaborator to explore uncertainty.
AI Is Cannibalizing Human Intelligence. Here’s How to Stop It.
As a neuroscientist, I conducted research into artificial versus human intelligence. The results surprised me—and suggest we’ve been worrying over the wrong things.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is the smart one in North America and Donald the dummy
Without Formal Trade Talks, Canada and the U.S. Go Public With Their Grievances
Prime Minister Mark Carney shot back at Trump administration officials, saying Canada is not ‘taking instructions from the United States.’
Ian Austen reported from Ottawa where he attended Prime Minister Mark Carney’s news conference. Ana Swanson reported from Washington.
Friday, April 24, 2026
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The strangest part is that this has happened under Cohen, whose fortune was supposed to transform the Mets into a perennial juggernaut alongside the free-spending Dodgers and New York Yankees. (Because of their deferred contracts, the Dodgers have a higher payroll than the Mets for purposes of the luxury tax.) Meanwhile, after 11 losses in a row, the team is left facing a disheartening reality. The new Mets might cost a lot more, but they bear a shocking resemblance to the old Mets.
The Mets Have Turned Into a $360 Million Mess
Despite entering the season with baseball’s largest payroll, the team has lost 11 consecutive games and is in danger of falling out of contention in April
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Logic Demands an Iran Deal. Will Trump’s Fantasies Allow One? In the logical world that markets seem to believe will prevail in the Middle East, this war will end — and soon — because there’s little realistic prospect of either side winning a decisive victory by restarting the conflict. The costs of trying, meanwhile, range from punitive to ruinous.
The genius of post-1945 U.S. foreign policy was in embedding America’s awesome power in a framework of international institutions and law in which all nations, large and small, could participate and benefit. It was far from perfect and coincided with plenty of episodes of imperialist intervention. But the strategy overall paid off for the United States. It cushioned the reality of American dominance, legitimated American power and produced an order broadly consistent with American interests. All these advantages are now being abandoned. The Trump administration is destroying any remaining faith that the United States can be trusted to exercise power responsibly.
The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong
Dr. Patrick directs the Global Order and Institutions Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Monday, April 20, 2026
Sunday, April 19, 2026
As someone in the word business, I’m often asked to weigh in on the question of literature and artificial intelligence. People are usually surprised when I admit that I love A.I. I use A.I. for everything, 24/7. I can’t get enough, me and my whole family. My uncle uses A.I. to buy onions. It used to be you wanted onions, you went to the store and maybe it was full of people, or it was empty — you literally never knew. Now A.I. can calculate when the grocery store is low-traffic, and my uncle just strolls in, la-di-da, and buys onions, no waiting. Imagine a world where you don’t have to wait to buy onions. It’s here.
Friday, April 17, 2026
But just as striking was the simple math of munitions. American and Israeli forces were destroying quite a lot of Iranian targets, both military and civilian. But they were doing so with extremely expensive weaponry and depleting fragile stockpiles. Perhaps the Iranians were doing less damage, but they were doing it much more cheaply, with what seemed like a bountiful supply of low-cost drones, missiles and mines. How long had it taken Americans to realize they’d gotten stuck in quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan? In this war of choice, conducted largely by air, the fearsome U.S. military had gotten trapped in a war of attrition within the very first week.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
The Gulf conflict demonstrates what American forces can achieve from a position of strength. Ukraine has shown what war looks like from a more vulnerable position, when that strength is contested at scale. The performance of our forces should inspire confidence. The lessons of Ukraine should instill urgency. We will need both.
America’s Success Against Iran May Prove a Distraction
Ukraine gives us a preview of the future of warfare. Our leaders would be wise to learn its lessons.
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Progressivism was the first mainstream American political movement—with the possible exception of the pro-slavery reactionaries on the eve of the Civil War—to openly oppose the principles of the Declaration. Progressives strove to undo the Declaration’s commitment to equality and natural rights, both of which they denied were self-evident. To Wilson, the inalienable rights of the individual were “a lot of nonsense.” Wilson redefined “liberty” not as a natural right antecedent to the government, but as “the right of those who are governed to adjust government to their own needs and interests.” In other words, liberty no longer preceded the government as a gift from God, but was to be enjoyed at the grace of the government. The government, as Wilson reconceived of it, would be “beneficent and indispensable.” Progressives such as John Dewey attacked the Framers for believing that “their ideas [were] immutable truths good at all times and places,” when instead they were “historically conditioned, and relevant only to their own time.” Now, Dewey and the progressives argued, those ideas were to be repealed.
Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration
Woodrow Wilson’s ideas are opposed to the basic American creed. They can’t coexist forever.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of remarks Justice Clarence Thomas delivered Wednesday at the University of Texas, Austin, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence:
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Mr. Orban’s defeat is not nearly the end of the story, not even in Hungary, where his allies will continue to work in many parts of government. But his defeat is significant. Many people assumed he was unbeatable. He was Vladimir Putin’s biggest ally inside the European Union and the original 21st-century model of Western illiberalism. Mr. Trump openly admired him, and Vice President JD Vance traveled to Hungary last week to campaign for him. Mr. Magyar thoroughly defeated this far-right giant. The free world should take an honest look at how he did it.
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