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Not long after announcing the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs in April 2025, President Donald Trump claimed the taxes on imports…

Great moments in unintended consequences—when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series. The year:…

In brief The Bank of Thailand is using data analytics to scan for abnormally high-volume trades in stablecoins, especially Tether’s…

“I thank my fellow candidates, in all their glory. Lord Buckethead, Elmo, and others. Forgive me if I don’t identify…

In brief Senate Democrats are ramping up opposition to the Clarity Act, demanding ethics rules barring President Trump and his…

In a scathing decision issued on Monday, a federal judge in Florida ruled that President Donald Trump’s January 29 lawsuit…

In brief 200 protesters marched between the offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Organizers again called on frontier AI…

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) and his political legacy as…

Nearly every war Israel has fought has been reactive and mostly unplanned. It had to fend off armed attack from…

In brief OpenAI published a dedicated prompting guide for GPT-5.6 Sol that changes earlier advice. Internal coding-agent tests showed lean…

U.S. v. Baxter, decided today by the Eighth Circuit, upheld a conviction for “possessing a firearm as an unlawful drug…

In brief New Hampshire’s governor signed the Blockchain Basics Law, introducing new protections for blockchain innovation and crypto users in…