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Does AI Know How You Will Die?
HOW HIGH IS your risk of developing pancreatic cancer or suffering a heart attack in the next 20 years? A new generative artificial intelligence system called Delphi-2M aims to answer that question and offer personalized forecasts of your long-term health trajectory.
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February/March 2026
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SOUTH PARK
The animated TV comedy South Park continues to do the impossible: stay punchy and relevant after decades on the air. The latest five-episode season, streaming on Paramount+, once again follows the fourth-graders of South Park Elementary as they navigate a world increasingly obsessed with technology and everything political.
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February/March 2026
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WILL MAMDANI DEFUND THE POLICE?
THE NEW MAYOR IS KEEPING POLICE COMMISSIONER JESSICA TISCH ON THE JOB, BUT THEY MIGHT HAVE A CONTENTIOUS RELATIONSHIP.
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February/March 2026
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MAMDANI'S EDUCATION AGENDA FOR LESS LEARNING
NEW YORK SCHOOLS NEED MORE CHOICE AND BETTER CURRICULA, BUT THE CITY'S NEW MAYOR WANTS TO TAKE CHOICES AWAY.
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February/March 2026
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THE TWO FACES OF ZOHRAN MAMDANI
MAMDANI ACTUALLY WANTS MORE HOUSING TO BE BUILT.
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February/March 2026
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The Long Road Home
The Wounded Generation examines the aftermath of the “good war.”
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February/March 2026
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How the FCC Became the Speech Police
THE CONSTITUTIONALLY ANOMALOUS STATUS OF BROADCASTING INVITES GOVERNMENT MEDDLING.
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February/March 2026
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MAMDANI CAN'T RAISE YOUR KIDS
THE MORE THE GOVERNMENT INTERVENES IN THE MARKET, THE MORE NEW YORK PARENTS PAY FOR CHILD CARE.
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February/March 2026
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Ayn Rand, the Video Game
\"WHAT DOES COMPLETELY, COMPLETELY UNREGULATED COMMERCE LOOK LIKE?\" KEN LEVINE'S BIOSHOCK WILL TELL YOU.
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February/March 2026
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DEATH BY LIGHTNING
Mike Makowsky opens Death by Lightning, a four-part miniseries he wrote and produced, with a chilling line: “This is a true story about two men the world forgot. One was the 20th president of the United States. The other shot him.” Yet this drama about President James Garfield and assassin Charles Guiteau reminds us that we should wish for more forgettable presidents.
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February/March 2026
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Superintelligent Al Is Not Coming To Kill You
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY AND Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. “We do not mean that as hyperbole,” they write. They believe artificial intelligence research will inevitably produce superintelligent machines and these machines will inevitably kill everyone.
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February/March 2026
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ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S PRICES CRISES
THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST WASN'T RUNNING ON TRUE \"AFFORDABILITY.\" HE RAN AGAINST PRICES.
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February/March 2026
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Trump's Bureaucratic War on Immigrants
DRAMATIC SCENES HAVE come to define the second Donald Trump administration's immigration policy: federal troops patrolling the streets of American cities, agents snatching international students on video, hundreds of Venezuelan migrants disappeared to a brutal Salvadoran prison.
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February/March 2026
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A MAXIMALIST VISION OF MAYORAL POWER
WILL LINA KHAN PUSH THE NEW YORK MAYOR TO GET CREATIVE WITH EXPANDING HIS POWER?
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February/March 2026
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MAMDANI'S SOCIALIST HOUSING PLAN COULD CRASH NEW YORK'S RICKETY RENTAL MARKET
EVEN IN ONE OF THE MOST REGULATED CITIES IN THE COUNTRY, PROGRESSIVES BLAME THE FREE MARKET.
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February/March 2026
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MEET ZOHRAN MAMDANI'S INNER CIRCLE
MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE ARE ON HIS RADICAL, BUREAUCRATIC TRANSITION TEAM.
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February/March 2026
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Does Section 230 Protect AI?
WE CAN THANK Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act for much of our freedom to communicate online. It enabled the rise of search engines, social media, and countless platforms that make our modern internet a thriving marketplace of all sorts of speech.
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February/March 2026
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Q&A Katie Herzog
KATIE HERZOG IS the co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast and the author of Drink Your Way Sober, a book about her experiences with the Sinclair Method—a medication-assisted approach to alcohol abuse that employs one drug to counter problematic use of another.
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February/March 2026
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3 REASONS MAMDANI'S CITY-RUN GROCERY STORES WILL FAIL
ZOHRAN MAMADANI'S PLAN TO OPEN GOVERNMENT-RUN GROCERY STORES WOULD WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY SOLVING A PROBLEM THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE.
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February/March 2026
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Bill Gates Cools the Climate Debate
IN OCTOBER 2025, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates made headlines by declaring that “climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization.” The admission came in a letter to world leaders weeks before COP30, the United Nations’ 30th annual climate change summit, and focused on “adjust[ing] strategies for dealing with climate change.”
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February/March 2026
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Can Florida and Ohio Kill Property Taxes?
IN A 1995 episode of The Simpsons, teachers at the dilapidated Springfield Elementary School make an impassioned plea for more school funding at a PTA meeting, telling parents, “It’s for your children’s future.” Principal Skinner easily changes their minds by simply rubbing his fingers together. “Oh yeah, the taxes, the finger thing means the taxes,” exclaim the disgruntled parents, who then reject any funding that requires a tax increase.
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February/March 2026
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You Have the Right To Record ICE
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION believes you don't have the right to record Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in public. This stance is both factually wrong and an attempt to chill free speech by conflating it with violence.
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February/March 2026
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Is Your Wi-Fi Router a National Security Threat?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act into law in 2024. Citing potential national security concerns, the law required the social media app TikTok to either separate from its Chinese parent company or cease operations in the United States. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term delaying implementation of the law. But his administration is still wielding government power to shield Americans from China—whether we like it or not.
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February/March 2026
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The Deportation Playlist Is Mostly Stolen
AS MASKED IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents deploy to U.S. cities, the Trump administration is also running a social media campaign. Its effort to stay viral online is colliding with copyright law.
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February/March 2026
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Mamdani Can't Ruin New York
WHEN I FIRST took a road trip to New York as a young teen, I was astonished by the industrial landscape as we neared the city on the New Jersey Turnpike. “Why would they put all this dirty stuff so close to the city?” I asked my parents. As a D.C. kid, it had never occurred to me to think about what cities were actually for. In Washington, we mostly make rules and big marble monuments.
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February/March 2026
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Why Did D.C. Reinstall a Confederate Statue?
THE NATIONAL PARK Service reinstalled Washington, D.C.’s only statue of a Confederate soldier in October 2025 as part of the Trump administration's effort to restore preexisting monuments in the capital.
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February/March 2026
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Trump's Drug Strategy Excuses Murder as Self-Defense
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has sought to justify his policy of summarily executing suspected drug smugglers by arguing that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with criminal organizations that supply prohibited intoxicants. Yet the Trump administration also insists that U.S. forces are not engaging in “hostilities” when they blow up boats believed to be carrying illegal drugs.
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February/March 2026
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The Return of Polymarket
TALK IS CHEAP—but Polymarket lets you put your money where your mouth is. Nearly four years after being shut down by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the online betting company that allows you to stake money on future events has become CFTC-compliant and relaunched for U.S. residents at the end of 2025.
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February/March 2026
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A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites
IF YOU WERE looking for a human avatar of America's unipolar moment, you couldn't do better than Michael McFaul. Picture a youthful, energetic McFaul with a newly minted Ph.D. bounding into the suddenly post-Soviet space of the early 1990s, full of bright ideas about democracy and faith in the end of history. As McFaul himself puts it, 1991 \"was a glorious moment to be a democratic, liberal, capitalist, multilateralist, and American....I was treated like a rockstar.\"
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January 2026
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TRUMP IS DEPORTING ENTREPRENEURS
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S MASS DEPORTATION EFFORT IS ROBBING THE U.S. OF IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.
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