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The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack. “3 US news outlets return to White House after judge orders The Traitor to lift ban,” read a Sept. 24, 2026, Associated Press headline, published just one week after the administration had barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from press briefings. InContinue Reading

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Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton walked out of a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing on September 17 and gave lawmakers a deadline. “Maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” he told reporters, describing how long Congress has before artificial intelligence moves beyond meaningful human control. It’s not an outlierContinue Reading

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Two years after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah is weaker but not finished. WaTaawanou, a crowdfunded charity outside Hezbollah’s formal hierarchy, exemplifies one way Hezbollah endures: outsourcing part of the cost of sustaining – and retaining – its Shiite base. Israel eliminated its seniormost military and political leadership, over 5,000Continue Reading