new - Top Democrats are weighing how harshly they would go after corporations that have courted President Donald Trump’s approval, if they retake the House in November. semafor.com/article/02/27/…

Today is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, one of the most important books ever. If you don’t have the stamina to read it all, we made a film about him a few years ago. My favourite part is when his metaphor of “the man of system” comes alive.

WOW! Biden's former Secretary of State Todd Blinken on how the Israelis tried to get Biden to initiate a war, but he refused: "The Israelis were insisting that in the North, Hezbollah, and from Lebanon, was about to attack, and they wanted to strike preemptively against

THIS is the version of this story that should be out there. Anthropic still wins.

Initial reaction: the legal theories are not a surprise, but one thing worth flagging: Anthropic was designated under two different authorities: 10 U.S.C. § 3252 and 41 U.S.C. § 4713. The first is the DoD covered-systems designation; the second is the FASCSA designation. To

A WSJ investigation into public records found that most accusations against U.S. citizens for attacking immigration officers were unsubstantiated. Here are five takeaways. wsj.com/us-news/five-t… via The Wall Street Journal

Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense. wired.com/story/openai-d…

“If allowed to proceed, this effort to punish one of the leading U.S. AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond,” the employees wrote.

I signed this brief opposing the Supply Chain Risk designation against Anthropic, and supporting the importance of restrictions on domestic surveillance and autonomous weapon applications for current models. Very grateful for all the people who worked hard to make it happen.

Three centuries ago, Swedish armies crossed the Baltic to devastate Poland during the wars known as the Deluge. They took the art, the silver and the archives. Some of it is still in Stockholm. Today, the Swedish king and queen arrived in Warsaw. Charles XVI Gustaf brought his

.Newt Gingrich on keeping the Strait of Hormuz open: “If they can't keep it open, this war will in fact be an American defeat before very long.”

Interesting that JD Vance has basically gone dark since the war in Iran started. No long, indignant Twitter essays whining about the media or whatever bullshit. You think you can hide from this disaster, JD? Your team briefed that your advice to Trump was to "go bigger" in Iran!

Willy Brandt, icon of postwar German history as mayor of Berlin, SPD leader, Chancellor, architect of West Germany's Ostpolitik, was a CIA asset after WWII. Here he seems to be translating a Swedish article on Nazi gatherings for the CIA in 1951, from the CIA archives

My new role is Anthropic’s Head of Public Benefit. I’ll be working with several technical teams to generate more information about the societal, economic and security impacts of our systems, and to share this information widely to help us work on these challenges with others.

1/ Not long ago, there was discussion about a monumental Trump state visit to China, including a potential military parade, large business delegation, and multi-city stops. Now, three weeks out, the scale of the visit appears to be shrinking (🧵) nytimes.com/2026/03/11/wor…

"Mallory McMorrow is feeling the weight of being in the driver’s seat; her hands clasped to the steering wheel of a swiftly accelerating campaign that’s zooming past her biggest rivals in the U.S. Senate race." Read more in Michigan Advance || @michiganadvance.bsky.social ⤵️ michiganadvance.com/2026/03/11/in-…

Sen. Ruben Gallego wants the Trump administration to renegotiate parts of the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. In letter to Trump to he writes: "renegotiate aspects of the agreement to rebuild the US manufacturing sector, strengthen border communities, and address the

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Ironically, Brandt himself was brought down by the Guillaume Affair, an espionage scandal in which one of his personal aides, Guenter Guillaume, was found to be an East German spy. Brandt resigned over the affair in 1974. Here they are in a picture that has since become iconic:

How Not To Do Regime Change open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…