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Guest column: War and politics

The Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously said that war is politics continued by other means. This is certainly true of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, and when one is confused, so is the other. A key example is the issue of the hostages. During a dramatic raid to rescue four of them, the […]

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Alexandra Paskhaver: Computers can’t tell jokes

“If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?” “C++.” It’s a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I’m told, doesn’t flourish in tech. Computers can’t understand it. And, some would argue, neither can engineers. But the computer bit isn’t quite […]

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Elwood Watson: Democracy is on the ballot, thanks to Project 2025

Last week, Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat , author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” commented that “one of the most alarming things” about “Project 2025” is the blatant admission that Donald Trump did not accomplish everything he intended to in his first administration. “They got a slow start […] so their codeword is ‘day one,’ ” […]