America’s Costly Retreat from the Pacific (Charles Edel and Kathryn Paik, Lawfare) U.S. policies are opening a door for Chinese influence with Pacific Island states. The World Learned the Wrong Lesson ...

· The D.C. Circuit Rules on the 9/11 Guilty Pleas—and Says Much More ...

80 Years After Hiroshima, Nuclear Risks Are Rising (Comfort Ero, Foreign Policy) New channels of communication and wider support for the IAEA can help prevent catastrophe. Is China Changing Its ...

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Becoming a Bubble | Five Misconceptions Blocking National Security Reform | Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End, and more ...

How the Atomic Bombs Reshaped the World (Chloe Hadavas, Foreign Policy) Eighty years on, what has the world learned from Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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Famine in Gaza Shows the Failure of Israel’s Strategy ( Economist) It has become an international pariah without vanquishing Hamas.

Trump’s Trade War Returns America to the 1930s (Melissa Lawford and Hans van Leeuwen, The Telegraph) The president’s tariffs have hammered U.S. small businesses and fueled uncertainty.

Experts Predict AI Will Lead to the Extinction of Humanity (Leighton Woodhouse, The Times) Truly super-intelligent bots could wipe us off the face of the Earth, says a Nobel prizewinner and others ...

ICE Detains Police Officer Even After DHS System Approved Him for Work (Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post) Federal officials arrested a Maine police officer they said overstayed his visa. His ...

America Should Assume the Worst About AI (Matan Chorev and Joel Predd, Foreign Affairs) How to plan for a tech-driven geopolitical crisis.