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Anthropic Co-Founder Warns Superintelligent AI Could Fuel a 'Totalitarian Nightmare'

Dario Amodei warns that powerful AI could enable authoritarian regimes to create comprehensive surveillance systems, posing significant risks to global freedom and democracy.

International Business Times UK · Aug 17

China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation

The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2025

Was the Cold War a Deception?

The American Enterprise Institute's Hal Brands and investigative journalist Gareth Porter debate the necessity of the Cold War.

Reason · Jun 19, 2025

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Hal Brands: What went wrong in the Afghan pullout? Biden’s not saying

This month marks two years since President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, bringing America’s two-decade war there to an end. One might hope that Washington would be engaged in a searching debate about what went wrong in that conflict. So far, alas, it’s not clear…

Tribune News Service · Apr 15, 2023

Commentary: Activism and niches are killing the teaching of history at universities

The statistics are in for history as a profession, and they are dire. The number of tenure-track positions open for history professors fell to an all-time low in 2021, according to an American Historical Association report. The AHA blamed the COVID-19 pandemic. But while that explains the dip after 2020…

Chicago Tribune · Feb 16, 2023

How Ukraine war has shaped US planning for a China conflict

As the war rages on in Ukraine, the United States is doing more than supporting an ally

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2023

Hal Brands: Take Putin’s nuclear threat seriously, but not too seriously

Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised anew the possibility he might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine to prevail in a conflict going sideways. The smart money says he won’t, because doing so — or otherwise expanding the conflict drastically — wouldn’t make a bad situation any better.

Tribune News Service · Sep 24, 2022

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Beijing Is Still Playing the Long Game on Taiwan

Why China Isn’t Poised to Invade

Foreign Affairs · Jun 24, 2022

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