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Thaçi’s Conviction And What It Doesn’t Resolve

Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]

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Lawless Lands: Trump Preaches At The United Nations

There was nothing new in the Reality Television President’s swill filled address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22. Donald Trump had said much of it before, most of it with wearying derangement and detachment from reality. There were the bullying threats of annihilation and doomsday relish that […]

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Serbia’s Balancing Game: Between Moscow And Brussels

The European Commission for the sixth time since December 2021 issued a recommendation to open negotiating Cluster 3 for Serbia, covering competitiveness, inclusive growth, and access to the EU single market. In its information note of July 3, the Commission stated that Serbia had met key requirements: it repealed controversial […]

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Russia Made It Clear That Nuclear War Would Follow Any Serious Aggression Against Kaliningrad

Neither Poland nor Lithuania dares to blockade, let alone invade, this Russian exclave. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski proposed in mid-September that Poland should “exercise so aggressively on our side (of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave) as to make … [Russian President Vladimir Putin] uncertain of what we will do, and so […]

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The Court Keeps Choosing “For Now”

The Supreme Court’s decision to let the Trump administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own, without giving them a chance to argue the harm they might face there, follows a pattern that’s become familiar over the past two years: the justices repeatedly allow a contested immigration policy […]

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What AI’s Leaders Dangerously Misunderstand About AI

They have false understandings of motivation and of other aspects of conscious beings, and these false understandings have caused their teaching of their systems on the basis of reward learning or “Reinforcement Learning” (or simply “RL”) that causes their systems’ top goal to be to satisfy their users instead of […]

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Lukashenko’s Trilateral Belarusian-Russian-US Fertilizer Plant Proposal Is A Genius Move

It could set into motion a fast-moving sequence of events that meaningfully de-escalates New Cold War tensions provided that Trump agrees to participate in this project as expected. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko just announced that “Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I agreed that Gazprom will join us in implementing the project […]

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The Rural Realignment: Why America’s Political Divide Runs Deeper Than Elections (IV)

Part I Part II Pat III For Democrats, the central problem extends beyond messaging. Policy proposals addressing healthcare expansion, infrastructure investment, child tax credits, or rural broadband may enjoy substantial support when evaluated individually. The difficulty arises when voters question whether national leaders genuinely understand local priorities or intend to […]

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Closed Gates, Open Questions: The Reckoning Over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Florida’s «Alligator Alcatraz» has closed, but the controversy surrounding it has entered a more consequential phase. September disclosures about confinement conditions, followed by a separate federal review of detention spending, have shifted attention from the facility’s provocative branding to the decisions that sustained it. Together, the findings raise questions about […]