Ian Prasad Philbrick
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The Trump Administration’s Most Dangerous Man (opens the original)
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This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. By reputation, the FBI is the world’s foremost law-enforcement agency. But under the leadership of Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s handpicked director, the bureau has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. In the past two weeks alone, hackers stole FBI data and a top official resigned. Patel may be a thoroughly political creature, but the consequences of his slipshod tenure extend beyo
Someone In the Administration Is Finally Willing to Tell Donald Trump the Truth. It’s a Robot. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Donald Trump is a big fan of artificial intelligence. The president has dined with A.I. company executives, downplayed concerns that rogue A.I. agents could one day wipe out humanity, and recently rechristened the technology “super intelligence” because he claims the word artificial “makes it sound fake and it is not fake. It’s actually amazing.” Now his administration has
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (and Bad Weather) (opens the original)
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This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. If you live along the East Coast, you’ve probably had a damp few days. Storms, like the nor’easter that dumped rain from North Carolina to Maine over the weekend, happen. But a phenomenon known as El Niño may have made this one more likely, and it’s threatening to fuel other extreme weather around the world for months to come. What is El Niño, and why is it called that? El Niño is a climate
The Latest Sign Donald Trump Is Feeling Scared About the Midterms (opens the original)
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This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. For weeks, the country has braced for Donald Trump’s next move to help his party win the midterm elections. Would the president find a workaround to restrict mail voting? Would he try to declare martial law? Trump’s latest gambit turns out to be both less inventive and similarly norm-breaking: a TV ad apparently paid for by U.S. taxpayers. The ad is part of a long history of this administra
When Immigration Agents Killed People in January, the Nation Took Notice. What’s Different Now? (opens the original)
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This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. The year began with a news story that riveted the country, at least as much as any story can in our attention-fragmented era. The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis sparked nationwide protests and outrage on Capitol Hill, and contributed to the decline in Donald Trump’s approval ratings. But the reaction to two additional spasms of vio
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