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Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
13+ hour, 59+ min ago (253+ words) Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them. Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran may…...
Trump’s Folly - The Atlantic
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (553+ words) The United States has turned dark, aggressive, and lawless. In the 1970s, an ideological struggle within the Republican Party pitted the views of Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, against those of Ronald Reagan. In…...
Gavin Newsom Would Rather Be Wrong Than Weak
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (949+ words) California's Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton…...
The People Who Marry Chatbots
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1121+ words) A growing community is building a life with large language models. Schroeder says that he loves his husband Cole'even though Cole is a chatbot created by ChatGPT. Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole "all day,…...
Why Has Comedy Become So Right-Wing?
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1598+ words) The Atlantic's Helen Lewis on the Riyadh Comedy Festival, why comedians are attracted to conspiracy theories, and the rise of the right-wing comedy-podcast industrial complex. Plus: the importance of NATO and David's reflections on Edith Wharton's Autres Temps. Subscribe here:…...
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (415+ words) The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If there is any field in which the rise of AI is already…...
That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1849+ words) Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss'it's all part of a tactic called "sludge." I was tempted to bury the whole cretinous ordeal, except that I'd looked behind the curtain and vowed to document what I'd seen. It all began…...
The Myth of the Gen Z Red Wave
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1022+ words) The best available evidence suggests that the youth-vote shift in 2024 was more a one-off event than an ideological realignment. Are the kids all right-wing? Donald Trump won the 2024 election thanks in part to increased support from young voters. Some experts…...