AMERICANTHINKER - Faithful to the alarm, inauthentic to the science
Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare” helps us to understand alarms in public health.
AMERICANTHINKER - Trump is giving me whiplash
I can only hope that if I have whiplash, so do our enemies.
AMERICANTHINKER - Modern society: Formatted to fit your screen
The problem comes when we stop believing there was any wisdom in the original design.
AMERICANTHINKER - Chavez's fatal legacy
Shoddy Chavista construction results in the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans.
NPR (Ximena Bustillo) - Inside the coordinated strategy to radically reshape U.S. immigration
As the Supreme Court today weighs the Trump administration's effort to revoke birthright citizenship, NPR looks at what else the White House has done to curb illegal and legal migration.
NPR (Sergio Martínez-Beltrán) - Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes
146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas on June 24. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.
AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - The AI boom's historical warning
Data: BIS ; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Today's AI buildout resembles earlier technological revolutions and capital booms that ended in painful busts. - That's the new warning from the Bank for International Settlements, a top forum known as the "central bank for central banks." Why it matters: The technological revolutions that transform the economy have a long history of attracting more investment than what near-term returns justify. - The risk is that AI follows the same pattern at a moment when the global economy is unusually reliant on a single investment boom to keep the expansion on track. Flashback: Some of the world's greatest technological breakthroughs — canals, railroads, the internet — sparked enormous investment…
AXIOS (Marc Caputo) - Trump's "Swiss Army" tools on Iran: Vance and Rubio
As he tries to hammer out a peace deal with Iran, President Trump has a dovish adviser in Vice President Vance perched on one figurative shoulder — and a hawkish Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the other. Why it matters: The success of the talks — and therefore the health of global oil markets — greatly depends on how well Trump deploys each man to balance competing interests in Iran, Israel and Lebanon. - "Think of Marco and JD as aspects of the president's personality and policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "There's a more pro-Israel aspect of it, and that's Rubio. And there's a more Israel-skeptic aspect. That's JD." Zoom in: Vance and Rubio differed during internal administration deliberations about the landmark June 17…
NYTIMES (Ezra Klein and Jack McCordick) - Chris Rufo, MAGA’s Top Activist on the Right, Has a Conspiracy Problem
One of MAGA’s leading activists discusses how he views the second Trump administration, as well as various factions of the right.
NYTIMES (Kate Shaw) - Congress Cleaned Up After Nixon. After Trump, It’ll Be a Bigger Job.
The Supreme Court has eviscerated the separation of powers.