AI Is Arming America’s Enemies

Anthropic’s own threat report shows hostile governments and militias turning American AI into a force multiplier. A Houthi-linked engineering cell used Claude to help develop guidance systems for rockets and a missile with a range exceeding 2,000 kilometers, run simulations and diagnose a failed test launch. The model blocked some requests, yet engineers evaded other safeguards by dividing their work across multiple sessions. Iranian actors used the technology to build propaganda networks, profile targets and track U.S. naval forces, while Chinese and Russian operations applied it to cyberespionage. AI is lowering the cost of capabilities that once required teams of engineers, analysts and linguists—giving weaker states and terrorist groups a faster path to weapons, surveillance and disruption.

Peter FrankopanUnHerdRead

Automakers Retreat From the EV-Only Future

After years of planning for an all-electric future, major automakers are changing course. Lexus, Stellantis, BMW and Mercedes are embracing platforms that can accommodate electric, hybrid and gasoline powertrains as EV adoption falls short of earlier expectations and hybrids gain ground. Automakers are moving away from an EV-only future and giving consumers more say in what comes next.

Henry PayneThe Detroit NewsRead

How the Bond Market Is Raising Your Mortgage Rate

Investors are dumping government bonds as war-driven energy prices, persistent inflation and enormous public deficits shake confidence in sovereign debt. The resulting surge in yields has pushed the benchmark 10-year Treasury to approximately 4.8 percent—and those higher rates flow directly into mortgages, auto loans and business credit. They also make Washington’s debt more expensive to refinance, creating another cycle of borrowing and interest costs. The global bond rout is moving from trading desks into household budgets.

Rebecca TerrellThe New AmericanRead

Massie Moves to Impeach Hegseth Over the Iran War

Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced a privileged resolution accusing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth of eight impeachable offenses, forcing the House to act within two days. The charges center on waging the Iran war for more than 90 days without congressional authorization and also cite strikes on suspected drug traffickers, retaliation against Sen. Mark Kelly, the seizure of Nicolás Maduro and the 2025 campaign in Yemen. Republican leaders are expected to table the measure, but Massie is compelling Congress to put its position on executive war-making power on the record.

Virginia Grace McKinnonThe Daily SignalRead

America’s Marriage Collapse Is Becoming an Economic Crisis

America now has nearly twice as many unmarried men ages 18 to 39 as married men, and the number of unmarried young men has risen 47 percent since 2000. Married couples head only 47 percent of households, down from nearly 79 percent in 1949. The decline reaches far beyond private life: marriage is associated with greater economic stability, while isolation among men tracks with addiction, crime, depression and deaths of despair. A country losing the family as its basic social institution is also losing a central source of productive workers, stable communities and human flourishing.

Stephen MooreTownhallRead

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Corrupt Milwaukee Is Hiding the Ballot Count

An election observer’s complaint alleges that Milwaukee officials barred citizens from watching ballot handling during the August primary. Observers could not see inside a restricted room holding thousands of absentee ballots, and interior windows once offering a view had reportedly been covered, removed or replaced with walls. Officials then delayed statewide results after mistakenly downloading audit logs instead of vote totals onto five of nine memory sticks. Milwaukee attributed the failure to human error, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission has largely accepted the city’s explanations even as its own staff urged greater visual access for observers. Confidence in elections depends upon citizens being able to see the process. When ballot rooms disappear behind walls and repeated failures bring little scrutiny, darkness becomes part of the election machinery.

M.D. KittleThe FederalistRead

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