February 2023

This February, the Washington Post published an op-ed by seasoned national security observer David Ignatius. However, according to a former professor of national security studies, Ignatius’ insights about “the spy business and life” are misleading.

Long-term earthquake plans are crucial for saving survivors but are missing in countries like Turkey and Syria that require international assistance to implement such emergency protocols.

Since the Great Recession, the Republican Party has failed to attract young voters, and contrary to the common belief, younger generations are not becoming more conservative as they age but remain liberal or become more liberal.

Those old enough to remember the Carter administration are as likely to recall stagflation, gasoline price hikes, and the Iran hostage crisis as the Middle East peace accord Carter brokered at Camp David or his forward-thinking environmental policies. Yet with the perspective of time, it is now clear that President Carter was a gifted leader.

Few of us would put diplomacy in the same category as climate issues or global pandemics as something that affects our daily lives. It is, after all, something that the world has done for centuries, largely away from the glare of international public opinion. So why does diplomacy need now to catch up with the world?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and other Large Language Models (LLMs) have been all the rage for the past few months. However, one of its most deeply concerning aspects is that I got it to lie to me willfully.

We played a two-minute snippet during a pair of Swing Voter Project focus groups where Biden railed against “junk fees.” We wanted to know what these Trump-to-Biden voters thought of his advocacy for the Junk Fee Prevention Act.

You might remember that I was critical of Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor during his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Now comes the news that the junior Senator from Pennsylvania admitted himself to a center for treatment of clinical depression. We need a role model right now. Here’s hoping he fills that bill.

We might wonder why this is such a big deal since we were previously aware that the Chinese Government has satellite assets that continuously monitor the U.S. and much of the free world. The answer is fairly simple…