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What has the U.S. war with Iran accomplished? : NPR

Trump's war goals included putting an end to Iran's nuclear program, destroying its military capabilities and creating regime change. That hasn't happened.

Vance says Israel offered to restrain strikes in Lebanon during U.S.-Iran talks

Vance said there's a "legitimate misunderstanding" between the U.S. and Iran regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon.

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Claude, Copilot, Codex

AI Coding Agent Security: Practical Guardrails for Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex - DEV Community

You gave your AI agent access to your codebase. Cool. Did you also give it access to...

The Claude Code Feature I Ignored for Months Was the Most Important One | by Colby McHenry | Apr, 2026 | Medium

dp pipeline "task" --agent claude # Claude Code (default) dp pipeline "task" --agent gemini # Gemini CLI dp pipeline "task" --agent codex # OpenAI Codex dp pipeline "task" --agent copilot # GitHub Copilot

Models overview - Claude API Docs

Claude is a family of state-of-the-art large language models developed by Anthropic. This guide introduces the available models and compares their performance.

Democracy (wtf)

EIU Democracy Index 2025: democracy stabilises after eight years of decline

/PRNewswire/ -- Following eight years of decline, 2025 marks a stabilisation of democracy scores that suggests an end to the global democratic recession. The...

Before You Preach About Democracy, Do It

Staff Writer Max Feigelson ’27 interrogates Amherst College’s performative politics, arguing that symbolic resolutions and faculty-led statements fail to empower students, revealing a deeper crisis of political imagination that undermines the practice of democracy on campus.

Rep. Jason Crow on Leadership and Democracy

Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) participates in a discussion on leadership and democracy at a forum hosted by The John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University.

📜 History Fact

Francis Bacon's 'Novum Organum' (1620) advocated the scientific method of inductive reasoning based on observation and experimentation.

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