How AI is Like Biowarfare 
By Sam Schechner in the WSJ 

As mentioned in my Journal, above, I’m working on an essay spelling out what I’ve been learning recently about the amazing advances with robotics and AI – what I think is going to happen, how soon, and what I’m going to do about it. So far, my outlook is not sanguine. Here’s an example of why I’m worried.

Yes, America Should Absolutely Annex Greenland!
By Jordan Schachtel in The Dossier

In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced the nomination of PayPal co-founder Ken Howery to serve as the next US Ambassador to Denmark, writing: “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” Click here for Schachtel’s take on this.

The Cruelty Is the Point 
By Yasha Mounk on Substack

“After Donald Trump won reelection, scores of Americans once again failed to make good on their loudly shared and oft-repeated plan of moving to Canada; but a good number of them did partake in a different, rather less cumbersome, exodus. Complaining that Twitter had been unrecognizably transformed under the ownership of Elon Musk – whom they also blame for supporting Trump – hundreds of thousands of progressives decamped to Bluesky.” Read more here.

The American Ambassador Who Tried to Prevent Pearl Harbor 
By Steve Kemper in Smithsonian Magazine 

“The ambassador woke, stirred by some faint shift. The clock said 1 a.m. Half asleep, he glanced out the porthole at the dark waters of Tokyo Bay, with Yokohama silhouetted beyond, so familiar after a week’s confinement aboard the anchored Asama Maru. A piece of driftwood slipped by, moving a bit too fast, then another moving faster.” Read more here.

From Forbes: The World’s Most Powerful Women 

As economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions reshape the global order in 2024, a critical question emerges: Is women’s power advancing or retreating? Click here.