With the buyouts of these wind projects, the U.S. is losing enough generation to power more than 3 million homes. And it is only going to cost taxpayers $2 billion.
Research indicates that the leading large language models can exhibit a bizarre feature: They can fake their safety alignment to appear harmless, helpful and truthful, hiding toxic behavior.
We should prize both commitments: to a republic that insists on the people’s right to be represented rather than ruled, and to a democracy that ensures that ordinary people might collectively make it so.
By changing the interpretation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Republicans could use the ruling to redraw congressional districts across the country to benefit their party.
When criminals combine biometric templates with other leaked data, such as logins for social media profiles or home addresses, they can build “super-profiles” connected to many of a person’s activities.
The study suggests that participating in civic life—even something as simple as casting a ballot—may be good for your health, like going for a run or eating vegetables.
What is at stake is not a ranking. It is whether the U.S. maintains the institutional capacity that made returns on scientific investment possible in the first place.
The U.S.’s newly aggressive stance will, sooner rather than later, fuel a resurgence of anti-imperialist sentiment as the organizing principle for a new generation of activists.
Any military that fails to invest in these cheap attack drones—and in the ability to defend against them—places itself at risk, including the U.S. military.
Chipping away at central bank independence, as Trump appears to be doing by threatening to fire the Fed chair is a historically sure way to high inflation.