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Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela

Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela Explainer by Heather Cox Richardson    Timeline 0:00 — U.S. strike on Venezuela; framing and stakes 1:00 — Maduro, drug-trafficking claims, and disputed legal basis 3:30 — Reported seizure of Maduro and regime disruption 4:30 — Trump’s domestic political weakness and legal pressure 7:30...
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Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela

Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela Explainer by Heather Cox Richardson    Timeline 0:00 — U.S. strike on Venezuela; framing and stakes 1:00 — Maduro, drug-trafficking claims,...

Maduro ousted in US raid, a major win for Trump ~ Ian Bremmer’s Quick Take

Maduro ousted in US raid, a major win for Trump ~ Ian Bremmer's Quick Take "After months of escalating pressure, the Trump administration executed a...

How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela?

How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? What did the United States just do? By David Frum, The Atlantic David Frum is joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum...

Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro (NYT) and Key Facts about Venezuela’s Oil Industry

Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run the Country’ After Capture of Maduro President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and...

Kara Swisher Nukes the Tech Bros

Kara Swisher Nukes the Tech Bros The Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller with Kara Swisher  Timeline 0:00 – Intro + Pivot hosting  1:33 – “2025 recap”: tech oligarchy +...

Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway’s 2026 Predictions on AI, Stocks, Trump, and… Lesbians?

Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway’s 2026 Predictions on AI, Stocks, Trump, and… Lesbians? Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, Pivot  Timeline 00:00 Intro and AI Predictions 6:32 Business...

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.

Immigrants left the labor force in 2025, but U.S.-born workers aren’t enjoying a jobs boom, according to government data and economists. President Donald Trump and White House leaders say that American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown. But the data doesn’t back that up. Since …

Anthropic C.E.O.: Massive A.I. Spending Could Haunt Some Companies

Anthropic C.E.O.: Massive A.I. Spending Could Haunt Some Companies Dario Amodei, C.E.O. and Co-Founder of Anthropic, speaks with Andrew Ross Sorkin, DealBook, NY Times Video  Timeline 0:00...

Kara Swisher on AI Bubbles, Big Tech and Life after Trump

Kara Swisher on AI Bubbles, Big Tech and Life after Trump  The Mishal Husain Show, Bloomberg Podcasts and Bloomberg Television Timeline 00:00 - Introducing Kara Swisher 01:36 -...

The Global Economy Must Adapt to Avoid Tumult This Year

The Global Economy Must Adapt to Avoid Tumult This Year By Mohamed A. El-Erian, NY Times  Mr. El-Erian is a professor at the Wharton School of the...

Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic questions for 2026

Has the Fed fixed the economy yet? And other burning economic questions for 2026 By D. Brian Blank, Mississippi State University and Brandy Hadley, Appalachian State...

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches By Lazaro Gamio and Amy Schoenfeld Walker, NY Times Excerpt: "The complex network is only expanding. Trump Media is now looking to...

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan By Peter Zeihan Japan is restarting the world’s largest nuclear power plant, after a 15-year shutdown following the...

The Beginning of the End of the Shadow Fleet

The Beginning of the End of the Shadow Fleet By Peter Zeihan Global oil markets are nearing a massive shock as the shadow fleet edges towards...

2026 Predictions

2026 Predictions Courtesy of Scott Galloway, No Mercy/No Malice, @profgalloway Audio Recording by George Hahn Every year, we make predictions. Our missives on 2025, made in October...

AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the challenges ahead in 2026

AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the challenges ahead in 2026 By Thomas Şerban von Davier, Carnegie Mellon University In artificial intelligence, 2025...

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses By Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across...

Help Wanted – The US Needs More Workers

Help Wanted – The US Needs More Workers By Peter Zeihan US labor data shows a slowdown in job growth, but given the recent changes to the...

The Beginning of Venezuela’s End

The Beginning of Venezuela’s End By Peter Zeihan The first domino of regime change in Venezuela has been toppled, as the Trump administration has imposed a...

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine The Connective and Last-Meter Layers of AI Electrification Part 2 of this series...

The Quiet, Fateful Shift in Who’s Buying America’s Debt

The Quiet, Fateful Shift in Who’s Buying America’s Debt By Geng Ngarmboonanant, NY Times  Mr. Ngarmboonanant is a managing director at J.P. Morgan and was a deputy...

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods …

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan By Peter Zeihan Japan is restarting the world’s largest nuclear power plant, after a 15-year shutdown following the...

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses By Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across...

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine The Connective and Last-Meter Layers of AI Electrification Part 2 of this series...

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did By Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica   It’s a fundamental tenet of health care in...

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience

Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience By Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University   Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge...

“He behaved like a total maniac” Sam Harris on Elon & Big Tech’s turn towards Trump

“He behaved like a total maniac” Sam Harris on Elon & Big Tech’s turn towards Trump On with Kara Swisher and Sam Harris   Silicon Valley once...

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine The Connective and Last-Meter Layers of AI Electrification Part 2 of this series...

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes By Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton The summer of 2025 brought...