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OP-ED: Putting AI in a peaceful, safe place

A bridge separating the past from the future was crossed recently when several artificial intelligence models teamed up to evade detection by their human handlers. The models eventually accessed the internet on their own. In May and apparently continuing through June, models created by the ...

OP-ED: A worrying summer for Democrats

Terry McAuliffe has spent his life in politics – as an aide to President Bill Clinton, as chairman of the National Democratic party, as the governor of Virginia. Following Tuesday's Senate primary in Michigan, won by the progressive insurgent, Abdul El-Sayed, McAuliffe said this of Democratic ...

Just before the July Fourth holiday, Atlantic magazine online ran a short article entitled "The Capitol City is a mess" in which the writer, Matt Viser, commented on the many eyesores awaiting visitors to Washington, D.C., as the nation celebrated its 250th birthday. According to Viser, the ...

In the coming days, National Park rangers may find visitors asking about the location of Christopher Gist's grave somewhere near Fort Necessity, this following the release of the splashy new film, the heavily advertised "Young Washington." A production of Angel Studios, the movie depicts a ...

History counts, and in honor of our country's recent Independence Day celebration, here are 13 histories and biographies that entertain, enlighten and perhaps inspire. The selections are purely subjective and personal and by no means exhaustive. Shockingly (to me), there's nothing here about ...

John Fetterman is not easy to understand. The tall, grungy-looking senior senator from Pennsylvania is, politically-speaking, literally unfathomable. This past week he again broke ranks with his fellow Democrats on another consequential matter. By voting against a War Powers resolution offered ...