Years of Meddling in Cuba and Nicaragua

Edward Hunt Foreign Policy in Focus
Establishment leaders are doing everything they can to save an organization that not only meddles in sovereign countries but is willing to go rogue.

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Overconfidence Is How Wars Are Lost

Monica Duffy Toft The Conversation
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. One of the oldest and most lethal traditions in international politics is the catastrophic gap between what leaders believe going in and what war actually delivers.

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Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses.

Fossil Capitalism and the Strait of Hormuz

Sahasranshu Dash Foreign Policy in Focus
The global energy system was not built around oil simply because it was cheap. It concentrated economic and political power in specific chokepoints that enabled forms of state power premised on managing, rather than dispersing, these flows.

Bernie vs. Claude

Bernie speaks to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
 

Project Hail Mary | Movie

A science teacher (Ryan Gosling) turned astronaut is on a last-chance mission to save Earth from a solar-eating microbe and must rely on science, wit, and an unexpected alien ally to survive and succeed. In theaters today.