Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the Texas floods because the victims were “white kids” and “future fascists,” Grok — the social media platform’s ...

Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. (Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times) Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the ...

· BRICS Is Sliding Towards Irrelevance –the Rio Summit Made That Clear · Coups in West Africa Have Five Things in Common: Knowing What They Are Is Key to Defending Democracy · Iran’s Collapse Could ...

MIDDLE EAST · Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him · 12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb? · Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again if Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium ...

DHS’s 2009 budget includes 19 percent increase in money for border security; administration to request $775 million to complete 670 miles of fencing this year and other infrastructure ...

As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned ...

How China Extended Its Repression into an American City (Shibani Mahtani et al., Washington Post) Chinese diplomats and pro-China diaspora groups based in the United States organized demonstrations in ...

· The Fog of Disaster Is Getting Worse · Johnson Won’t Say Biden Won in 2020, Raising Worries on 2024’s Process · As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him · Why Legal ...

The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, ...

The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status. The 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and, not so coincidentally, the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump — a ...

· After War with Israel and U.S., Iran Rests on a Knife Edge · A Peace Agreement That Will Probably Not Bring Peace · How Europe Got Tough on Migration · Refugees Worry: Is Nicaragua Assassinating ...

What AI Will Do to Elections (Rishi Iyengar, Foreign Policy) Ahead of India’s last national election in 2019, internal teams at Twitter came across a rumor spreading on the platform that the indelible ...