Part the First: They Really Are Serious About Destroying American Science (but that has been clear from the beginning).  The Wall Street Journal writes: White House to Direct Billions in Research Funds Toward AI, Away from Colleges (no archive). In a new report and memo released Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology […]

Today's Iran war news: The Saudis rearrange deck chairs on their Titanic as the IRCG documents their successful F-35 hits.

Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy offers a path to meaning through creative action, even in a world shaped by frustration

Today's Iran war news: Iran is trying to deke Trump into more energy and munitions depleting action. He seems to be falling into the trap.

Things have only gotten worse for the Ellison family tech and media empire (Oracle, Paramount, TikTok) as they face mounting legal and financial pressure on all fronts.

STAT News is an essential news source for all things Biomedicine (i.e., Big Medicine plus Big Pharma), from the delivery of health care in the clinic to the basic research that is the foundation of clinical care, to the unremittingly garish politics of the moment that affect the entire structure of science in America.  The […]

Military secrecy is essential to national defense, but it carries an inherent institutional risk. This article introduces the concept of Secrecy Degeneration: the gradual transformation of classification systems from protecting military capabilities to protecting the institutions responsible for developing them.

Today's Iran war news: The press and investors weirdly ignore serious damage to Saudi oil assets and instead trust the negotiations fairy.

Having destroyed Graham Platner's candidacy in Maine, the AIPAC-funded Democratic establishment has turned its full attentions to Michigan where it hopes to use Black voters to stop anti-war candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

Today's Iran war news: The US-Iran strikes remain on hold for a second day. But Netanyahu and other Lindsey Graham fans are in DC this week.

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Part the First: What the Longevity Bros Miss: The Office of Science and Society (OSS) at McGill University is one of the best newsletters of its kind and has provided much to think about today’s Coffee Break.  In this first part, it is not too difficult to understand the desire to live long and prosper.  […]

Today's Iran war news: Trump may have aged out of his TACO habits and is readying new, potentially global-economy-wrecking, attacks on Iran.

Data center watchdog groups in Kansas farming areas seek to ward off applications and fight if it becomes necessary.

Today's Iran war news: Yet more threat display as the US moves more assets to the Middle East and Ansar Allah chokes oil supplies further.

The foundations of the hastily assembled Ellison family hasbara media empire -- Paramount, WBD, American TikTok -- are cracking as Oracle stock has lost $600 billion in market cap since its September 2025 peak and its nearly $200 billion in corporate debt is close to junk bond status.

Today's Iran war news: How the US is clearly losing military as pressures are rising on the economic and political fronts.

Commercial technologies are increasingly finding themselves at the center of international security. Starlink began as an ambitious effort to provide global broadband internet, but its rapid integration into Ukraine's military operations transformed engineering decisions into questions of governance.

Today's Iran war news: As the US becomes weaker and Iran gets stronger, will the US resort to a nuclear bomb?

On the dodgy Christianity of Christian Nationalist thought leader, R.J. Rushdoony,.

Football is the world’s biggest grossing sport. Now they want to bleed it dry.

Good news of sorts from the economic front: An aging population, aka demographic decline, does not lower GDP or earnings growth.

Rob Urie shreds the downtrodden state of the Empire, including the desperation revealed by reviving the tired "Communist" bugaboo.

What China has in store for our well-funded generals.

Today's Iran war news. So much for that pause. Iran hit the US base in Jordan because provocation as Netanyahu pushes for bigger US strikes.

John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and Marx's materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis

"Today is a terrible day for Argentina’s foreign policy."

Why do we need hyperscale data centers to “beat China”?

In the race to control chokepoints and other valuable terrain, global warming will emerge the ultimate winner.

Cwal is a movie about horses, life, and living on one's own terms.

John Bellamy Foster explains how Marx learned from chemists, physicists, biologists and the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus

US and UK stock prices are in nosebleed terrain. How far could they fall?

As many suspected, Pakistan's mediation between the US and Iran wasn’t a selfless diplomatic service for regional peace, after all.

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A hard look at the possible severity of the coming global food crisis and how it demands new approaches to analysis and decisions.

An update on the latest twists and turns in the astonishingly long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case.

Russia blockades Odessa, grain wars, friction increases between Ankara and Moscow, and NATO lake plans have failed miserably.

Pete Hegseth is almost predictably wrong. His beliefs about testosterone supplementation are par for the course.

"[F]ew things have provoked more outrage [in Brazil] than Trump’s attack on PIX, the country’s beloved instant-payment system that Washington."

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Investors want the Fed to crack down on inflation to forestall a bond market reaction

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America's greatness ain't what it used to be, and is often misunderstood even when it once existed.

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Why French disclosure requirements for climate change are a terrible way to combat the accelerating crisis.

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Social Security runs on the paycheck. But a growing share of American wealth now comes from profits, assets, and ownership.

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How Trump has been trying to use military muscle to reassert US geopolitical and economic dominance.

Unions rightly criticize GOP policies but what do they have to say about their own failed leadership and that of the Democrats with which they have bound themselves.

On how the use of technology, as in typing and computer-based editing, compared to the effects of composition via handwriting.

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"Left-wing political terrorism" is replacing "Islamist extremism" as the main threat narrative in Western countries, answering to a new geopolitical theater

The pedantic might relish that their vice can be a bit slippery to pin down.

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At 250, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability.

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Turkiye committing to ensuring Ukraine’s maritime security poses a serious threat to Russia.