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There are certain places in the world that acquire an importance entirely out of proportion to their size, population, or apparent usefulness, and the Falkland Islands fall into that category. About thirty-five hundred civilian inhabitants, too many sheep to count,...
By Luke Barnes, On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day, had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In...
By Raffi Krikorian Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, would not be released to the public, after the company learned it was capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that have gone undetected in...
By Ryan Hesketh On March 3 2026, US Southern Command, the military unit overseeing operations in Central and South America, announced via X that “decisive action” had been taken against “domestic terror organisations” in Ecuador to combat “illicit drug trafficking”....
By Advisory Board staff In 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel — a prominent health policy expert, medical ethicist, and oncologist — wrote an infamous article in The Atlantic called "Why I Hope to Die at 75." Now, just seven years from his 75th birthday, Emanuel speaks with The...
By Moisés Naím Venezuela may soon experience something it has not seen in years: a surge of economic growth and activity. Although the removal of President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces in January left his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, in place, it has nonetheless opened...
There was a moment around 1980 when the world seemed to run on two channels of reality at once. On the evening news the announcer spoke in grave tones about the American hostages held in Tehran after the seizure of the U.S. embassy in the Iran hostage crisis. The...
By Will Glovinsky A story has been going around about artificial intelligence for the past decade: At some point, AI advances, robots and self-driving cars will throw countless people out of work. The rich folks who control AI companies will get richer. Most other...
By Elias Aboujaoude Birthrates are collapsing across the developed world, and the numbers are stark enough to unsettle most demographers. Nearly three‑quarters of humanity already live in countries with fertility at sub-replacement levels, according to the United...
Charlie woke up late on Good Friday, which would not normally require explanation except that in Cuenca, Good Friday means Semana Santa is in full swing, the construction crew on the lot next door has taken the week off, and the particular form of alarm clock I have...
There is something almost touching about a judge asking a simple question and getting no answer. Not a philosophical answer, not a constitutional answer, just a practical one. How, exactly, are you going to do this? That was the tone of US Supreme Court Justice Brett...
By Cal Newport Today we take for granted that diet and exercise are vitally important for our health and well-being. But we didn’t always think this way. Much of this awareness emerged in a remarkably short time during the middle of the last century. In 1955,...
There are moments in history when the world’s accountants quietly rearrange the furniture and everyone else spends the next fifty years living with the consequences. One of those moments took place in July 1944 in a grand old resort hotel in the mountains of New...
In the heatwave summer of 1665, as the Great Plague of London tightened its grip on a city that still believed disease traveled by miasma, misfortune, or divine displeasure, a splendid practical solution presented itself. When a household was diagnosed with bubonic...
Airports are temples of precision, or at least they present themselves as such, which is why it remains faintly astonishing to discover how much confusion can bloom inside a building devoted entirely to measuring minutes, assigning gates, and launching humans across...
By Oliver Stuenkel On Saturday, President Trump met with leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean for the so-called Shield of the Americas Summit in Florida. The meeting, which largely centered on the fight against organized crime, was another high-profile...
By Latin American Post staff U.S. operations in Ecuador open a new chapter in the region’s drug war, but the secrecy around targets, tactics, and purpose points to something larger: a remapped Latin American alliance where security, ideology, and sovereignty are...
By Melissa Kirsch In 1996, my colleague Pam Belluck wrote about a 17-year-old so addicted to the internet that he spent “more than six hours a day online and more than an hour reading his email.” More than an hour on email! It seems quaint now. Pam documented the...
By Nir Eisikovits and Jacob Burley Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ban the tech? Embrace it? These...
There is a moment that occasionally intrudes while watching modern television thrillers, a moment not of suspense but of arithmetic, when the viewer, having dutifully followed the betrayals, whispered briefings, and lingering shots of expensive melancholy, suddenly...
