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It’s more subtle than Skynet.
Or they could save it.
How Chinese hackers tricked Claude into hacking governments and companies all on its own.
The global backlash to Trump’s politicization of US intelligence, explained.
The world is finally waking up to this brutal war. But that doesn’t mean an end to it is coming soon.
A trade truce, a nuclear threat: What to make of the Trump-Xi meeting.
Airstrikes, bounties, a military build-up: This could be about drugs — or it could be the start of regime change.
Why Trump is sticking with Pete Hegseth.
No beards, a warrior ethos — and loyalty to the president.
Whether this week’s drone incursion into Poland was an accident or a provocation, the risks are still growing.
The message behind the unprecedented attack on the soil of a US ally.
“The Department of War,” explained.
What will come next in the Trump administration’s war on “narcoterrorism”?
America isn’t retreating from the world under Trump. It’s doing something stranger.
The future of the country’s borders is more than just a real estate deal.
Eighty years after Hiroshima, the idea that nuclear war can be controlled is making a comeback.
The Jeffrey Epstein story has swallowed the country whole.
Fighting in Syria exposes a US-Israel rift.
The end of mandatory shoe removal signals progress on airport security.
“Mowing the grass” didn’t stop October 7. Now it’s going global.
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
Every president wants to extricate America from the region’s conflicts. None of them do.
If America wants a space program, it needs SpaceX.
How Musk’s SpaceX became too big to fail for US national security.
Non-combatants bear the brunt of modern war’s toll, but we don’t know how to memorialize them.
Rapid changes from AI may be coming far faster than you imagine.
Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.
Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his ban on trans military service, after a lower court blocked it.
The latest on the trade war.
He texted attack plans to a journalist, but the defense secretary’s problems go well beyond that.
An executive order barring trans people from openly serving in the military isn’t really about their fitness to do so.
Why young people are getting cancer, problems with OpenAI, and the little intelligence agency that could.
The world had moved on from Syria — but Syrians had other ideas.
What’s in the ceasefire deal, and what could come next.
Generals out. Loyalists in. A look at Trump’s new foreign policy team.
Presidential powers to use the military domestically are broad, but not absolute.
Putin’s response is renewing concerns about nuclear escalation.
How much worse could it get if Trump loses?
The US has warned Israel against restricting aid but has also failed to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
We spoke to a number of experts a year ago. Several have changed their minds.