In today's Last Look, I explained why DOGE should be focusing on the genuine fraud in federal programs rather than canceling foreign aid and cutting federal staff:
As @KimGhattas points out, overthrowing Assad was "a Syrian-led process" unlike in Iraq or Libya. The group that achieved victory, HTS, is the one without major backing from foreign powers
Milei has been steadily cutting Argentina’s red tape since becoming President a year ago. We measured how much he’s deregulated. https://t.co/6syCnPYkB2
To call insurance companies low-paid middlemen is an exaggeration, but he's right about the dynamic that directs people's ire at insurance companies even though they are but one player among hospitals, doctors, pharmacy benefit managers, etc. who collectively drive up costs
Insurance companies are low-paid middlemen who are hired to play the bad guy in the bloated U.S. health care system. The real people overcharging you are the providers themselves.
https://t.co/85WX02feew
Today’s last look: The Taliban have placed severe restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan, eliciting global condemnation. My case for why the international community needs to engage more with the Taliban to try to improve conditions for women in Afghanistan.
Today’s last look: Humanity’s scourges return. Despite our pandemic fatigue with disease prevention, it’s important to strengthen efforts as old diseases like polio, dengue, and measles are spreading
Today's last look: why AI’s massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also how the technology could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
Todays last look: Inside British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers in Britain 4,000 miles away to the East African nation of Rwanda.
For the first time post-apartheid, South Africa's ruling party, the ANC, has been forced to form a coalition with the white-led Democratic Alliance
My segment last week about why South African voters punished the ANC in this year's election:
https://t.co/eBbL5Jv6ei