Biden’s Weak and Patchy Executive Order “Regulating” AI | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. AI = BS (results on Covid and Alzheimers). As I wrote: “I have no wish to advance the creation of a bullshit generator at scale.”…
Trudging Through Sobriety and Other Challenges, One Step at a Time
In March 2018, Morgan Olivia Hartman, who was new to Alcoholics Anonymous, attended the Miami district annual A.A. banquet dinner. Phillip Xavier de Amezola, who had been sober for four…
‘I Am Dreaming It Will Stop’: A Deadlocked War Tests Ukrainian Morale
Listening to the daily thud of artillery hitting nearby towns, a school principal in southern Ukraine appealed to parents for donations for a new bomb shelter. A soldier and his…
How the Real Estate Broker Business Could Change
A federal jury dealt the biggest blow to the American home-buying industry in perhaps a century this week when it found that the powerful National Association of Realtors and several…
What if Wine and Cider Had a Baby?
Wine is made by fermenting grapes or other fruit, although apple and pear wines are distinctive enough to have earned their own categories, cider and perry. But a growing number…
Opinion | Nuclear Talks With China Are Essential and Long Overdue
After months of troubled relations, and then some tentative steps to bridge the gap between the United States and China, there is one glaring omission: American and Chinese military leaders…
Opinion | Get to Know the Influential Conservative Intellectuals Who Help Explain G.O.P. Extremism
It’s easy to become inured to the extremism that has suffused the Republican Party in recent years. Donald Trump, the dominating front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination, spends days in…
Opinion | Losing Hope in the West Bank
When I was a law student backpacking through the Middle East in 1982, I met two Palestinian university students on a local bus in the West Bank. We got to…
Opinion | When It Comes to Israel, Who Decides What You Can and Can’t Say?
Last week, the Anti-Defamation League and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law sent a letter to nearly 200 college presidents urging them to investigate campus chapters…
Four surprises that could upend the 2024 US election
In 1992, wealthy businessman Ross Perot won 19% of all votes cast, and is often credited with costing the Republicans a presidential victory. In 2000, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader…