Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Remarks on Arab Science
This is a review of RFK Jr.’s defense on X of remarks he made at a Grand Rapids rally for…
Has God Moved On?
Steve Weinberg was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose book “The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of…
DoorDash to Acquire Instacart – Bad Deal for Consumers
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion ($65 per share). The companies plan to keep separate brands and apps until…
The Global Starlink Race — Origins, Scale, and Military Implications
The idea of a dense low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation for global broadband was not invented by Elon Musk. In the 1990s,…
Ukraine’s Starlink Crisis — Dual-Use Dependence and Contested Control
An October 2026 *Asia Times* investigation, “The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Starlink Crisis,” documented the practical limits of efforts to…
When Extraterrestrial Aliens Land in the USA or China
What would happen if extraterrestrial aliens landed in the USA or China? United States They set down in a parking…
AI: Is It Worth It?
The Trillion-Dollar Machine: Is Artificial Intelligence Worth the Cost? We type a question into ChatGPT or Claude, wait a few…
Will AI Agents Run Entire Businesses?
Imagine establishing a business without hiring a chief executive, a manager, an accountant, or even a receptionist. Instead, you install…
The Iran War Dividend: Why Should Oil Companies Keep It All?
When war drives up energy prices, consumers pay more and oil producers can earn extraordinary profits. Should some of that…
Facies Tua Est Omen
Have you ever been walking through a supermarket, standing in a crowd, or simply passing through a place where people…
White Lines Matter
I have discovered a simple way to improve some of the gadgets around my house. It costs a few dollars,…
AI in Free Fall: Seven Giants, One Blanket, and No Parachute
Imagine seven of the world’s most powerful technology companies falling through the sky, desperately holding the edges of a rescue…
When Everything You Do Becomes Suspicious
We are becoming a society in which algorithms know more about our behavior than we do—and increasingly have the power…
Underground Finance: Follow the Money, If You Can
For centuries, people have moved money across borders without banks. Now cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence are giving these old networks…
The CRS: An Underappreciated Washington Institution
Not everything coming out of Washington involves politicians, press conferences, or partisan arguments. The U.S. Government also provides genuine and…
The American Macho Podcast: A Twelve-Year-Old Boy’s Dream Come True
There is a peculiar phenomenon spreading across American social media. It involves middle-aged men sitting in expensive leather armchairs, surrounded…
When Even the Cardboard Is Worthless: Hong Kong’s Elderly Poor
The collapse in earnings from collecting wastepaper exposes a larger problem in one of the world’s wealthiest cities: how to…
Iran Joins the Under the Sea Knife Fight
A new RAND report, Winning the Undersea Knife Fight, argues that this creates a distinctive form of competition. The authors…
Quo Vadis, Marco Rubio?
Is Marco Rubio Already Outgrowing the Job of Secretary of State? A speculative look at whether the dual role of…
5,000 Years of War: Why Haven’t We Found a Better Way?
Some 4,500 years ago, two Sumerian city-states in what is now Iraq went to war over fertile land and access…