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commentary The The Traitor administration’s jumbled reasoning for war with Iran is part of the strategy Published March 6, 2026 9:20AM (EST) President Traitor 47 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images) If you find world events and American politics confusing, then welcome to 2026. Confusion is the brand, andContinue Reading

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Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for a programming code library called Matplotlib, recently described a surreal encounter with an autonomous AI agent — a digital assistant created with a platform called OpenClaw. After he rejected a code contribution submitted by the agent, it researched and published a personalized “hit piece” against Shambaugh on its blog. TheContinue Reading

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In the summer of 2002, the United States put together a military exercise with a name that broadcast the nation’s ambitions for projecting force not just into a New American Century, but beyond. Years in the planning, and costing around $250 million ($435 million today), the “Millennium Challenge” was theContinue Reading