Ranked: The Richest Countries Across 3 Metrics

Switzerland, Singapore, and Norway each lead a different measure of GDP per capita after adjusting for prices and working hours.

visualcapitalist.com

Opinion | Trump is discovering that ‘dollar diplomacy’ doesn’t work

Trump administration pursuit of profit and peace blurs line between public and private interests.

washingtonpost.com

Loyalty, brutality, and control: Inside Iran's elite forces

Months of correspondence with two high-ranking defectors have given DW's investigative unit a rare look at the mindset of the regime's loyal servants — and revealed a clandestine circle that allegedly...

dw.com

Sixth person who had measles has died in Pennsylvania, local coroner says

The state is experiencing the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak, the first in the U.S. to top more than 1,000 cases since 1991.

washingtonpost.com

Why Columbus Sailed West

What really happened...

substack.com

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

theatlantic.com

The Best Canned Tuna

We tasted nearly 40 cans of tuna, from budget-friendly chunk light to olive-oil-packed yellowfin we’d gladly eat straight from the tin.

nytimes.com

Sanctions Make Well-Connected Middlemen Richer While Most Iranians Become Poorer

Mohammad, an egg distributor, smiles bitterly as he recalls how much the cost of maintaining his pickup truck has risen.“In 2013, I bou ...

iranwire.com

Opinion | ‘It’s the Identity, Stupid!’: 3 Writers on Europe’s Rising Far Right

A discussion on the roots of the far-right’s success, its plans for power and what President Trump has to do with it all.

nytimes.com

Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans

The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.

nytimes.com

The plague may have escaped from a lab in Siberia

Russian secrecy means it is unclear how grave the threat is

economist.com

What Iran’s Rulers Miss About the Quran

A democratic reading of the Quran challenges Iran’s rulers on the religious authority they claim.

intpolicydigest.org

In Yemen, No One Wants To Be a Teacher Anymore

A decade of war and a collapsing currency have emptied the colleges that train the country’s educators, leaving schools shuttered or short-staffed

newlinesmag.com

Netanyahu demands criminal probe of soldiers who testified in ‘NAZA’ film on Gaza killings

PM calls on AG and heads of IDF, Shin Bet to identify soldiers who appeared anonymously in 'NAZA' and prosecute them for spreading 'false' libel, exposing secrets

timesofisrael.com

Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race

Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodsky, researchers at Carnegie’s China AI Initiative, argue that China is betting that AI dominance will come from combining hardware and software, or AI-powered robots....

foreignaffairs.com

Rewiring the Arsenal of Democracy

America and its allies must scale together for a new era of war.

foreignaffairs.com

How the Ivy League Broke America

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

theatlantic.com

Regional policing unit drops controversial Palantir AI technology

Five police forces decide not to continue using software from a US tech firm after a two-year trial.

bbc.co.uk

Boots Off Ballots: Troops and Elections, In Practice

Soldiers should always remember that in a democracy, any domestic deployment order given on or around an election is suspect.

justsecurity.org

Blind cat follows woman like duckling

YouTube video by GeoBeats Animals

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A Florida local newspaper ran an op-ed. It was an Iranian AI fake.

ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.

washingtonpost.com

Democracy, now.

Big Tech has spent years resisting accountability. As the federal government adopts its own evasion tactics—locking out the press, and now investigating news networks—it’s worth remembering journalism...

cjr.org

Surprising (Almost) No One, the US Trade Deficit Is Back to Pre-Tariff Levels

The administration’s tariff experiment has been an unfortunate demonstration that tariffs will not fundamentally change a country’s trade balance because they don’t change the underlying savings and i...

cato.org

How Ukraine’s Ground Robots Are Changing the Battlefield

Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi offers a glimpse of a battlefield where unmanned ground vehicles penetrate enemy lines, disrupt defenses and clear the way for infantry.

thecipherbrief.com

The Only Thing the Houthis Have Done Successfully

What they do well is fight. Escalation against Saudi Arabia is assured.

theatlantic.com

Official poster depicts the US Army’s newest threat: The Iranian soldier

The U.S. Army recently published a quick-recognition guide to help soldiers identify members of the Iranian army.

militarytimes.com

Democrats Getting Cover From Republican Spending Surge—Even If They’re Progressive - The American Prospect

Left-leaning candidates in swing seats have received millions of dollars from party groups. House candidate Will Lawrence’s race in Michigan is emblematic.

prospect.org

PMC Casualties in Congo | SOF News

Several members of a private military company owned by Erik Prince were wounded or killed during a clash with M23 in Congo.

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