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APPLEBAUM: Clearly, Trump is somebody who was cultivated by Russians for many years. Clearly, when they talk to him, they spend lot of time thinking about how he can be manipulated, and he seems to respond. Trump is easy to manipulate if you know which buttons to push and so on.
Past tech revolutions replaced brawn. This one replaces brains.
That's why white-collar workers are scared — and why I finally understand what a Detroit auto worker felt in the 1970s. I can see the technology coming. I just don't know what day it arrives.
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Iran stands to make up to $450 billion off a potential peace deal.
Trump has already committed to an $18 billion upfront windfall before the deal is even finalized.
While full details are TBD, the proposal is objectively worse than Obama's JCPOA.
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I was minutes away from writing something celebrating a Republican House cooperating with a Republican Senate and a Republican President to get a useful piece of bipartisan legislation passed, and then...
A.I. needs widespread cooperation across corporations and countries to take the best advantage of its power and to prevent catastrophes.
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Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction.
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When Trump's vanity projects go haywire—like the Reflecting Pool, the ballroom, or the Kennedy Center—he manages to look incompetent and vain at the same time.
His excuses for the Reflecting Pool disaster, including blaming "vandals" for his own failures, are nothing more than lies and conspiratorial nonsense.
And if Trump wants to turn his conspiracy theories into felony cases carrying ten-year prison sentences through his Department of Justice, he'll have to present actual evidence to a grand jury.
Good luck with that.