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Warfare is based on deception
Last stated c. 500–430 BCE
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Same subject: war
'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting.
Last stated 10 Oct 2025 · 12 months ago
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Lawrence Freedman
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Same subject: war
A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
Last stated 26 Aug 2026 · a month ago
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Branko Milanovic
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Same subject: war
A country whose economy and military are deeply entangled with a dominant neighbor will keep getting stuck with choices that run counter to its own national interests.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Henry Farrell
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Same subject: war
A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.
Last stated 27 Aug 2026 · a month ago
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Scott Greenfield
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Same subject: war
A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.
Last stated 31 Jul 2025 · a year ago
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Jack Weatherford
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Same subject: war
After interviewing hundreds of people inside America's secret military and intelligence programs, there is no reason to believe aliens have ever visited Earth.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: war
AI data centers function mainly as a new way to sustain natural gas demand for an oil-and-gas industry facing declining gasoline demand.
Last stated 15 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Bill McKibben
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Same subject: war
AI will be as central to how the world is run and to humanity's future as industrial technology was from 1870 to 1970.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Noah Smith
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Same subject: Europe
A company doing something at the edge of the Overton window has to hold two cultures at once — the true believers and the serious professionals who think they are crazy — and integrating them is what makes it work.
Last stated 7 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Max Hodak
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Same subject: Europe
A heavily centralised state is the most fragile kind: when Rome’s centre failed, its successors were left without the resources or administration to do what it had done.
Last stated 28 Jan 2022 · 5 years ago
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Bret Devereaux
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Same subject: Europe
A new world order based on raw power is being drawn right now, and Europe has to fight for its place in it.
Last stated 10 Sept 2025 · a year ago
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Ursula von der Leyen
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Same subject: America
A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.
Last stated 22 Aug 2026 · a month ago
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Same subject: America
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 18 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Casey Handmer
Eric Berger
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Same subject: America
A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot.
Last stated 7 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alon Levy
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Same subject: politics
A backlash against women's economic rise is not automatic; it happens only where politicians choose to mobilise it.
Last stated 1 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alice Evans
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Same subject: politics
A candidate's political success is increasingly disconnected from their actual record of accomplishment.
Last stated 31 Aug 2026 · a month ago
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Daniel W. Drezner
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Same subject: politics
A country without cultural unity struggles to provide public goods, because its politics turns into an ethnic spoils system.
Last stated 9 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Noah Smith