It usually began with the engineers walking the length of a street, threading charges through house after house along a whole block. Then the countdown, and then the block went down together, a single rolling wall of dust where a neighborhood had stood, and over the...
The most recent tech dystopia discourse has been driven by a meeting between AI bigwigs and Pope Leo XIV, wherein one of them tried to convince the Pope that artificial intelligence can develop consciousness. Why, if possible, this would be desirable, is outside of...
This month, a Trump administration report confirmed Joe Biden's White House secretly connived to destroy Americans’ financial freedom. Those bureaucrats were upholding hallowed precedents stretching back to the Nixon era, when Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act....
Serbia’s 2000 Bulldozer Revolution, which culminated in the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, in many ways set the standard for what we now refer to as the “color revolutions.” It is only fitting that, 26 years later, the country is once again experiencing...
America has 1.5 icebreaker left and the rest of the world has more. The Royal Navy is the only competition with America in this race to the bottom with icebreaker loss of capacity.. Royal Navy’s only icebreaker out of action [at a vital point in time, the Falklands...
People have been debating what to do with murderers for thousands of years. Plato discussed the contentious matter in his dialogues, and it is likely that disagreement about the proper course of action has existed for as long as there have been murderers. In recent...
Before dawn on January 3, 2026, American warplanes pounded military targets across Venezuela while U.S. Special Forces kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas. The raid drew on more than 150 aircraft flying from twenty land and sea...
There has been a run of successful independent horror films which break the torture porn and slasher model. They are not creature features or monster romps. Instead, there is a dimension of neurotic therapy entwined into the story. It’s said, ‘write what you know.’...
Iran said that seven vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz without following Tehran’s protocols were damaged or set on fire overnight. Iranian state television reported the claims on Thursday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also warned that...
The Department of War is seeking to build a more robust deep-cover spying program to wage economic warfare against China and other nations deemed adversaries of the US. A half-dozen sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that the Pentagon hopes to...
