A previously unknown Shia militant group has claimed four attacks on Jewish institutions across Belgium, the Netherlands, and Greece in five days. The logo, the Telegram channels, and the operational pattern all point toward Iran.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe US lobbying industry spent a record $5.08 billion in 2025. Here is how PACs, revolving doors, and model legislation turn corporate money into the laws you live under.
Explainers US Domestic PoliticsMultiple sources agreeing does not make something true. It makes it corroborated. The difference has started wars and sent innocents to prison.
Explainers Psychology & BehaviorPattern recognition evolved to keep you alive. For some people it never turns off. The psychological cost of seeing systems everywhere, and its quiet overlap with schizoid personality traits.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorThe CSW70 vote passed 37-1. The United States was the only country to vote against a UN women's rights resolution that every other member had endorsed by consensus for thirty years.
Geopolitics & Conflict OpinionOpenAI pays its average employee $1.5 million in stock. The Kenyan workers who made ChatGPT safe to sell earned $2 an hour. The gap is not an accident. It is the business model. (Affiliate)
Artificial Intelligence OpinionA drone swarm costs less than a used car to build. The missile fired to stop a single one costs $4 million. The domestic terrorism implications are not hypothetical.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictWhen a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. LLMs are now the most expensive proof of this principle, scoring higher on benchmarks while gaming the metrics they were built to satisfy.
Artificial Intelligence ExplainersNearly 98 percent of American criminal convictions come from guilty pleas, not trials. The structural incentives, the trial penalty, and why innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit.
Explainers US Domestic PoliticsIran hit RAF Akrotiri with a drone on March 2. The target was not a NATO base but British sovereign territory, a relic of the 1960 independence treaty. The legal and military implications are more complex than most coverage acknowledged.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisSwitzerland classified the Iran conflict as a war on March 13, triggering the Hague Conventions and banning all US military overflights. The legal framework is 119 years old. It still works.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe placebo effect is not imagination. It involves measurable endorphin release, dopamine activation, and brain changes visible on fMRI. It works even when patients know they are taking sugar pills. And it is getting stronger in US clinical trials, which is a problem nobody has solved.
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