🚨New episode out now! Trevor Filseth and I sit down with Gary Samore to unpack #Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the state of its program today, and how the U,S. is responding. Don’t miss this deep dive on our podcast, Balancing Point ! youtu.be/4HYRIXwu62o?si…

Arrogant. Amateurish. Lacking in situational awareness. A huge security breach that opens operations to foreign actors and puts our military at risk. A staggering story in The Atlantic .

Usually the phrase "ugly American" is reserved for Americans abroad.

This is a terrible idea.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

I am in violent agreement with tylercowen. And so is Adam Smith.

Demonstration here of how JD Vance uses his intelligence to engage in a shocking level of dishonesty. His point on deportations and due process isn't completely wrong. He makes reasonable points. He does it though while pretending that this is about deportations, not sending a

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025. Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance. I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency. May his memory be a blessing.

This is bleak stuff.

"I'm going to govern in econometrics"

Great discussion today with senior Japanese Diet members about security challenges in the Indo-Pacific and the urgent need to do more, faster. The U.S.-Japan Alliance has never been more important than now.

The college of Cardinals has the chance to do the funniest things ever

he really did it

Praying for Joe Biden and his family to defeat the cancer he’s recently been diagnosed with. He and Jill have always been fighters and I am confident they will meet this challenge with grit and grace.

Yaron Lischinsky was the finest friend I’ve ever had, brilliant, kind, and endlessly thoughtful. A devout Christian and a gifted linguist, he spoke German, Hebrew, and Japanese. He was full of curiosity and always brimming with ideas. I don’t think we ever had a conversation that

entire graduate programs at harvard will cease to function with new trump ban. fantastic news for china. they couldn’t create these opportunities to outcompete the americans in scientific education if they devoted massive resources to it.

It is superpower suicide to stop the best foreign minds from coming to the United States and using their talents to propel American prosperity and technological advantage.

The Big Beautiful Bill should be called the BBB Act because that’s what the US Credit Rating will be in a few years.

I reject this with every fiber of my being.

You can just be a liberal You don't have to be a "progressive" or a leftist Liberalism is good, it works