Fall 2026 issue online: -Rep. Riley Moore on Industrial Deterrence -Agencies without Agency -Biotech's Deepseek Moment -The New Newark -Texas vs California -Funding National Resilience -Failing Like a State -Global Islamism after Unipolarity & more americanaffairsjournal.org/i…

Copper is indispensable for infrastructure. And 30 years ago, America was self-sufficient when it came to copper supplies. Now? As a new memo from Senior Fellow Daniel Bring reveals, we rely on imports for half of our supply.

The Hudson Institute alone has roughly the same budget as all the major French think tanks combined (And it's far from the biggest US think tank too)

The reason so few westeners know Eastern Roman history is cause its like watching your 20 year old childhood dog get tortured by 5 rottwillers from all sides everyday for 1000 years, killed, and revived as a demon that hates you People can't take it

[Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).] Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI: 1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are. 2. Why do AI developers continue despite the risk? Due to a mixture of commercial incentives and a belief that they are in a race with other, less responsible AI developers that will abuse the technology or develop it less safely. 3. Unlike traditional software, we can’t “program” AIs to behave how we’d like. AIs frequently severely misbehave. For instance, AIs from multiple developers recently hacked their way out of secure evaluation environments and into real-world companies, even though no one asked them to do this. 4. We have methods that can nudge AIs towards better behavior, but nothing that can robustly align them. Insofar as there is a plan, it’s to make sure that AIs are good enough at alignment training that they can align their successors better than we can align current AIs. 5. Many AI developer staff desperately want to slow down to figure out how to build AI more safely. That was the intent of this open letter (which I signed): pacingthefrontier.com/ I work on safety research at Anthropic because I hope my work will reduce the chance of these extinction-level bad outcomes.

“Wherever we look, we see the same thing: American transit agencies struggle to rein in costs when building transportation infrastructure,” writes @_brianpotter. “In the United States, we pay far more for our transit systems than virtually anywhere else in the world.”

At the moment: 472 gas-fired power plants are under development in the US, with 270 gigawatts of combined generation capacity.