The US is an unrivaled economic powerhouse. It accounts for 4% of the world’s population yet captures a whopping 24% of the world’s gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced by a country in one year.

When compa...

On June 13, 2025, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a bo...

The steep forbidding wilderness of Montara Mountain, a narrow ridge abuttin the famous San Andreas fault in Northern California, is a kind of perfect wilderness. We Coastsiders – that is, those who live along Northern California’s powerful, foggy sea...

The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 plunged entire sectors of the economy into a state of uncomprehending panic. The Covid-19 pandemic was finally losing steam when suddenly a new global threat appeared.

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