The Machine Can Write. Can We
Still Read?
EDUCATION · TECH
May 18, 2026
AI did not create America’s
literacy problem. It changed
the penalty for it…
The Software Layer of the
State
POLITICS · TECHNOLOGY
May 19, 2026
By the time he saw the paper,
the government had already
finished the hard part…
Nuclear to Mars
TECHNOLOGY
May 13, 2026
The checklist sits on a second
monitor, half-hidden behind a
telemetry window, while Alvarez
leans back just far enough to
see both without moving his
chair. He came over from…
The Brains We Left Behind
LABOR · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
April 28, 2026
For a century, we rewarded one
kind of mind. The next economy
may reward the ones we left
behind…
An Ordinary Night
WAR AND SECURITY · UKRAINE · DRONES
April 26, 2026
What a single message from Kyiv
reveals about how this war is
really being fought
The message came in just after
dawn.
“Two people died, 15 people…
The Pope Didn’t Say That
POLITICAL POWER · IMMIGRATION · PLATFORMS
April 14, 2026
But it sounded better than what
he actually says
The man at the counter wasn’t
trying to start anything. He…
No Way In
LABOR · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · ECONOMY
April 7, 2026
The first thing AI removes
isn’t jobs. It’s the path into
them.
The calls don’t come the way…
Which Energy Gets an Escort
ENERGY · CLEAN ENERGY · POLITICAL POWER
April 2, 2026
The wind was coming hard off
the Atlantic that morning,
rattling the loose siding on a
half-finished seafood shack in…
The War You Don’t See
WAR AND SECURITY · UKRAINE
March 31, 2026
When war doesn’t spread
geographically, it spreads
through capacity
The first explosion in Dubai…