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By Sarah Birke A story is a story until it isn’t. That is the case with El Salvador. After President Nayib Bukele was first elected in 2019, there was a flurry of interest that lasted several years, focused on his crackdown on crime and his consolidation of power,...
By Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking...
By Stephanie H. Murray On a cloudy evening in June, after a leisurely dinner with an old friend, I told her I’d better call an Uber and pulled out my little black brick of a phone. “What is that?” she asked. It’s a Light Phone, I explained. A dumbphone, essentially....
Most mornings in Cuenca I drink my coffee, listen to the dogs on the corner sharing the latest canine gossip, and wonder why two presidents on two different continents have both decided that soldiers in the streets are the answer to everything. Trump talks about...
By Louis Bourgeois Perhaps one of the things I enjoy most about turning 74 is that the preoccupations of my youth and middle age have fallen away. Our mission in this life is to give our highest creative gifts to the world.I have found that this endeavor comes much...
By Carlos H Brandt S. Latin America is seeing growing military activity by the United States. Under the umbrella of the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition (ACCC), launched by President Donald Trump in March, US forces are carrying out strikes on vessels suspected of...
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old registered nurse living in Duxbury, Massachusetts, killed her three children. Cora was five, Dawson was three and Callan was eight months old. Clancy strangled them with exercise bands in the basement of the family...
By Andrew M. Leonard On Thursday, U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan met with the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministers in San Lorenzo, Ecuador. The trio agreed on a plan to significantly expand their military cooperation along the Ecuador-Colombia...
Charlie Larga, or the collective of writers who use that name, seems to have been born around 1950, when the population of the United States was about 154 million. By 2020 it had more than doubled. The population of the world did even better, rising from approximately...
By the Editorial Staff The government of Daniel Noboa, through a ministerial agreement, has allowed U.S. soldiers and contractors to enter Ecuador without a visa, even if they are not working on security operations. For several years now, Ecuador has been experiencing...
The trade war between the United States and Canada has reached the stage at which mediation may no longer be sufficient. What they really need is a marriage guidance counsellor. The two countries have been together for more than two centuries. They share the world’s...
By Brahma Chellaney China shapes global knowledge not just by blocking information at home, but by exporting censorship through economic coercion and diplomatic pressure. It is increasingly influencing what the rest of the world knows about its internal repression and...
Britain has recently been engaged in one of its periodic bouts of national pearl-clutching, this time over the late Professor Jason Arday. Arday became the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University in 2023 after telling an extraordinary story. Allegedly...
It is difficult to think of a more efficient immigration scheme. A pregnant woman obtains a tourist visa, flies to the United States, checks into a furnished apartment, gives birth in an American hospital and returns home with a newborn US citizen. There are...
By Anthony Cuthbertson It is meant to be humanity’s last invention. The moment a general-purpose AI is able to outthink the greatest human minds, then all future discoveries and scientific advancements will be made by machines rather than people. It is also supposed...
By D.T. Max This past April, in a nondescript examining room in Glendale, California, molecular biologist David Sinclair watched as an ophthalmologist injected a small amount of a substance Sinclair helped invent, called ER-100, into the left eye of a man with...
By Cory Doctorow Neoclassical economics assumes rationality. The corollary of "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus it is that many people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing...
I recently noticed a below the line comment describing the United States as a poor country. To me this seemed plainly wrong. The United States is not a poor country, but it is an extraordinarily rich country in which wealth is distributed so unevenly that millions of...
By James Bargent and Steven Dudley The capture of Ecuadorian crime boss Wilmer Chavarría, alias “Pipo,” was a major victory for President Daniel Noboa’s strategy of targeting high-value criminal leaders. But it also raises a larger question: Do kingpin arrests weaken...
By Pilar Troya Fernández President Daniel Noboa governs Ecuador with increasingly authoritarian methods. Elected in 2023 and reelected in 2025, he has concentrated power in the executive branch, clashed with the Constitutional Court, abused states of emergency, and...
