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Why Mistral Is Cash-Starved in the LLM World
The Buffett Indicator: What It Is — and What It Is Not
When War Ends in Russia, Violence Rarely Does
Groq: Jensen Huang's Christmas Present to Himself
Putin’s Narrow Window: The Bluff is Thinning
Intel’s AI Acquisition Déjà Vu: Why SambaNova Feels Like Groundhog Day Under Lip-Bu Tan
Do You Remember the Opium Wars? China Does.
The Legalized Plunder of a Nation: How Russia’s 1990s Privatization Betrayed Its People
The Most Misunderstood Phrases in Buffett-Speak: Free Cash and the Float
The Multiple Personality Industry: Psychiatry’s Dress Rehearsal for the Autism Epidemic
Sour Grapes Is Not a Moral High Ground
Move Over, AI – The Real Boom Industry Is Autism
The Deportation Con: How Trump’s Immigration Theater Obscures Obama’s Quiet Efficiency
Putin Is Whistling in the Dark
How an arms deal became normalized as a peace proposal: the Abraham Accords
Europe Must Think Very Carefully Before Leaving Ukraine Hung Out to Dry
Trump: A Man Who Never Finishes Anything
Why Does the U.S. Think It Can Dictate Peace in Ukraine—With No Skin in the Game?
Kaiser Permanente Has Been Running Socialized Medicine in America for 80 Years.
Stop Waiting for Someone to Lead You Out of This Mess
Is the Supreme Court Really Partisan and Unethical?
One Party Can’t Govern, One Shouldn’t: Part 3
The NIH Folly from OpenAI — Atlas
Why Trump Talks to Putin Before Talking to Zelensky — and What That Really Tells Us
The Biases We Don’t See: Lessons from Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers
How to Read This WSJ Article: What You Need to Know First
One Party Can’t Govern, One Shouldn’t: Part II
The Art of the Example: Sometimes Showing Is Easier Than Telling
One Party Can’t Govern, One Shouldn’t
The Access Desk and the Analyst: Two Ways to Tell the Gaza Story
Govern Where Agreement Exists: California’s Case for State Social Security and Health Care
The Case for an International Court of Tax Evasion
Don’t Censor Yourself: Why Politeness to Chatbots Actually Works
The Fake Nobel: Time to Tell the Truth About Economics’ Borrowed Prize
The Gaza Health Ministry Reports…
Why Is Hamas Finally Talking About Giving Up Power?
Time for an Entirely New Democratic Party
You Have the Numbers But They Make the Game
Antisemitic Rhetoric Will Only Hurt the Democratic Party
An Open Letter to Zohran Mamdani
Heads Trump Wins, Tails the Democrats Lose
Who Is Really Responsible for Charlie Kirk’s Death?
$100k H-1B Visas: It’s Just DEI for American Citizens
How the Banking System Works — and Why the Fed Matters More Than You Think
Drones, Borders, and Silk Roads: Poland's Pressure Test Wasn't About NATO
Trump's $550 Billion Factory Fantasy
America's National Credit Card: How Politicians Discovered "Free" Wars
Let's Be Honest About What Is Causing an Increase in Political Violence
What the UN Is — and What It Is Not
Unboxing Sanctuary States and Cities
If You Can Understand Pro Wrestling, You Can Understand Trumpism
Intel's Death Spiral: How a $10 Billion Foundry Gamble Exposed a Broken Business Model
The Tape-Out Illusion: When Business Theater Pretends to Be Engineering
How Putin and the Western Press Misread the War Against Ukraine
The Refund Tsunami: What Happens If the Supreme Court Voids Trump's Tariffs?
The Low-Fat Lie: How Bad Science Made America Sick
The Summary Execution Problem Behind Tuesday's Caribbean Strike
A Strike in the Caribbean, and a Deafening Silence
Europe Will Never Build the Next Google — And Uber Proves It
Intel's Board Misread the Résumé
The Curse of Reverse Scheduling: The Intel Foundry Project
Tweeting Is Not Going to Make TSMC
Josef Mengele Comes to Big Sur
The Lisa Su That Got Away: Intel's Board and the Art of Non-Deliverance
What Is Autism Anyway? You Might Think You Know
How My Friend Almost Died and Cured Herself by Searching the Internet
What's the Penalty If Intel Never Builds a Competitive Foundry?
America Needs a National Foundry, Not Another Intel Bailout
Will the Party of Your Mayor Make You Safer?
John Bolton, His Book, and the Legal Record
Unboxing the Odd Couple: Trump and Bolton
Time for Europe to Get Off Its Ass
Why Putin Won't Use Nuclear Weapons
Why Putin Will Not Pause Until Complete Capitulation
Trump's "Six Wars" Claim - Fact Check
The Stalin Story: What Happens When Charles Manson Inherits the Russian Empire
Theatre of Peace – Trump Doing the Rope-a-Dope
Trump's "Supposed" Turnaround in Alaska
The Myopia of Mearsheimer's Political Theory
Stop Calling Putin a Mastermind
The Ukraine Decision: A Five-Minute Case for European Leaders
The Shield and Denial Strategy: White Paper Plan for Ukrainian Victory in a War of Attrition
Trump's Moral Conundrum and the Putin Superpowers Myth
The Road to Forward Progress: The Case for 70% Politics
WSJ: Trump vs. Goldman: A Tariff Tiff
Illinois Criticizing Texas Redistricting
Time to A(woke) Up: Part 2 — The Folly of Confederacy Shaming
Bitcoin in Your 401(k): Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Time to A(woke) Up: Maximalist Demands Can Yield Minimalist Results
AI Writing Tips #1: Avoid Micromanaging the Chatbot
What AI Can Do—and What It Can't Do—for You
No Going Back: What the Palestinians Must Accept Before It's Too Late
The Future Entry-Level Job Is Your Own Business
How We Got 20% Credit Card Rates and Why You Should Care
Where Are We in the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire?
The House That Alzheimer Built
Is the Jeffrey Epstein Story the Al Capone Moment for Donald Trump?
Jeffrey Epstein's Client List for Underage Girls
The Book That Wasn't – How We Got the Sweetheart Deal of a Lifetime for Jeffrey Epstein
What if weekends at Epstein's island were primarily a tax avoidance retreat for the ultra-rich?
Did the Federalist Society Help Jeffrey Epstein Get Off with a Slap on the Wrist?
And Then There Were None: The Alexander Acosta Prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein
Never Attribute to Malice What Can Be Explained by Stupidity — The Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy
Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day: Would Putin Have Invaded Ukraine If Trump Were President?
The Road to Endless Wars: Part I
How I Faked Jeffrey Epstein’s Death
A Sobering View of the Obama Administration Part I: A Legacy of Elegance and Erosion
UN Resolution 181 for Palestine: The Stupidest Resolution Ever Passed
Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Part 3
Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Part 2
Understanding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Part 1
Debunking the Bunk of IQ Tests
What Tattoos Say About the Present
📰 What Happened to Consensus? The Death of the Supermajority
The Boiling Frog Economy: Inflation Is Replacing Reform
A New Deal for the 21st Century
How Did We Stop Following the Golden Rule?
A Proof of Self: Why Every American Deserves a Portable, Universal Identity