Islamic Republic of Iran loses its man at Princeton

August 29, 2025

Islamic Republic of Iran loses its man at Princeton

In November 2023, a group of Iranian-Americans, some of whom had been incarcerated in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison or were relatives of executed political prisoners, launched a campaign to secure the dismissal of Princeton University academic Seyed Hossein Mousavian for his alleged role in the assassinations of at least 24 Iranian dissidents in Europe. Just […]

Hungary’s Viktor Orban continues his Russian dalliance

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long cast the war in Ukraine as an existential threat to his country, portraying Hungary as an innocent bystander in a conflict not of its making. “We Hungarians are the only ones, apart from the Ukrainians, who are dying in that war,” he declared in 2022. In Orban’s telling, […]

Putin tests Trump and US-European relations with Kyiv strikes

Russia’s major overnight missile strike on Kyiv reflects Vladimir Putin’s desire to squeeze Ukraine and to divide the United States and Europe in their respective policies towards Russia. The attacks, which predominantly targeted civilian residential apartment buildings, killed at least 21 people, including four children. At least one strike badly damaged the European Union office […]

AI companies are reckless. Society will reap the consequences

Artificial intelligence companies rushed out their chatbots for mass public use with little regard for how they would be used. This reckless push into an AI future is full of insufficient safeguards and disastrous consequences. On Tuesday, Anthropic released a report saying that a hacker used its Claude Code chatbot to identify vulnerable companies, hack […]

The high price of regulating AI

The politics of artificial intelligence are quickly becoming a contest over regulation, with lawmakers and agencies competing to demonstrate vigilance rather than focusing on enabling innovation. The Senate’s decision to strip a decadelong federal moratorium on state AI rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a case in point. In one day, Washington, […]

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Anti-Catholic hate ignored: Media and politicians sidestep obvious motive in Minneapolis massacre

Close your eyes for a moment and consider the following: A deranged maniac sprays bullets into a Planned Parenthood. Or a mosque. Or a gay nightclub. The killer displays right-wing slogans all over his weaponry. This includes a bullet-holed target board with an image directly related to the target site: an aborted fetus, a crescent […]

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