Howard Marks is much less skeptical about AI than he was just a few months ago. In December, Howard Marks published an investment memo titled, "Is it a bubble?" that expressed some of his skepticism ...

Many explanations of administrative agency decisions display some degree of disingenuousness. After all, any decision by an agency intentionally entails input from many people. The more consequential ...

I was first introduced to author Morgan Housel on an episode of Shane Parrish’s The Knowledge Project podcast in 2016. Both individuals are prolific thinkers who greatly influenced my approach to life ...

Tehran’s nuclear ambitions date back to the shah and the 1970s and remains undimmed despite the damage caused by sanctions A desperate effort to avert war between the US and Iran is once again under ...

Harvey C. Mansfield, who retired in 2023 after 61 years on the Harvard faculty, is the best lecturer I’ve ever heard. When I was in graduate school two decades ago, attendance in his courses routinely ...

The current debate about the state of the nation’s roads is necessary and, hopefully, will lead to a conclusion that redounds to the country’s benefit. As we have consistently argued in this space, ...

President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet have made a case for acquiring Greenland that’s so simple, even self-evident, it seems hard to refute: U.S. national-security interests in the Arctic ...

US President Donald Trump and his allies have defended the US attacks on Venezuela and the removal of President Nicolas Maduro from power amid widespread condemnation that the actions violate ...

Sending astronauts to the red planet will be a decades-long activity and cost many billions of dollars. So why should NASA undertake such a bold mission? A new report published Tuesday, titled “A ...

At the heart of the far right's authoritarian project lies numerous contradictions: a small-government agenda that seeks to illegalize abortion and bodily autonomy, a push for meritocracy that ensures ...

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