The Lords Are Minting Coins Again
Amazon quietly turned on USDC payments through AWS, Meta is piloting a stablecoin, Tether is minting for Georgia, and a wave of platforms and banks are issuing private…
The Horse That Trained Harder
All That Effort
Three stories from one week — a $4.7B U.S. military campaign against drug boats that hasn't dented cocaine flows, a federal lawyer exodus leaving the administration unable to…
Reruns
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers reached the top of a hill in southern Lebanon called Beaufort. There is a Crusader castle on it, built somewhere around 1139, and it…
The First American Pope Took a Swing at Silicon Valley
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, made AI the subject of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas — a 42,300-word argument that the morality of frontier technology shouldn't…