The Kids Are All Right

Melinda Wenner Moyer Scientific American
Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

Are US-Iran Ceasefire Talks in Pakistan Doomed To Fail?

Farah N. Jan Responsible Statecraft
You cannot negotiate with a regime you are trying to destroy. Trump’s oscillation between threatening to blast Iran “back to the Stone Ages” and describing “very good and productive conversations” is the logical endpoint of an incoherent strategy.

The Friends of Viktor Orbán

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Orbán has brought together a mind-boggling assortment of elites in the cause of ethno-nationalistic anti-liberalism—a cause, clearly, that can unite communists and capitalists, Jews and antisemites.

Claude Mythos Is Everyone’s Problem

Matteo Wong The Atlantic
Mythos Preview appears to represent not an incremental change but the beginning of a paradigm shift. According to Anthropic, the bot has been able to find thousands of software bugs that had gone undetected, sometimes for decades.

Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran

Aída Chávez The Nation
Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.