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Why is intelligence declining?

Intelligence

It’s the voters, stupid

Why is intelligence declining?

Over the past 20 years we’ve seen the intellectual degradation of both electorate and elected

Sean Thomas

Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will harm Ukraine

The decision to suspend all intelligence sharing with Kyiv is a less visible but almost as serious blow as the pause to arms deliveries

Mark Galeotti

Tulsi caps off a big day for ‘realism and restraint’ in foreign affairs

The former Democratic congresswoman suffered an acute case of what’s known in Washington as ‘confirmation conversion’

Jacob Heilbrunn

A fair-minded and dispassionate history of the CIA

Hugh Wilford treats the reader to a captivating cast of characters and makes telling connections

Toby Harnden

Book Review

How Bayes’s theorem ‘explains the world’

In Everything is Predictable, Tom Chivers spends a lot of time-discussing the importance of subjectivity in Bayesian statistics

Alexander Masters

Book Review
May 16, 2024
A world without ‘cognitive discrimination’
Lionel Shriver’s Mania is provocative, stimulating and outrageous
Brian Martin
China
May 15, 2024
How China spies
The intelligence community has its work cut out to counter CCP espionage
Nigel Inkster
London Life
September 13, 2023
The cult of cleverness
Cleverness is overrated
Cosmo Landesman
Politics
April 18, 2023
Jack Teixeira and our crisis of trust
We can’t trust him — or the media or the government
Peter Van Buren
International
April 16, 2023
The US intel leak and spy world hypocrisy
Everyone and everything leak
Mark Galeotti
International
January 9, 2023
How AI could change diplomacy forever
AIs have the untiring speed of a computer and the capacity to learn the analytic leaps of human intuition
Mark Galeotti
Politics
April 6, 2022
Stopping the next Hunter Biden laptop cover-up
The only disinformation op in 2020 was run against American voters by their own intelligence community
Peter Van Buren
Politics
March 19, 2022
NY Post shames intel officials who flacked for Hunter Biden
‘SPIES WHO LIE,’ proclaims their latest cover
Cockburn
Science & Tech
August 26, 2021
Don’t be surprised by the inconclusive ‘intelligence’ report into COVID’s origins
Why do incompetence and conspiracy have to be mutually exclusive?
Grace Curley
Politics
May 6, 2021
Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you
Soon even the Illuminati will be an equal opportunities employer with an intersectional Latinx woman as CEO
They/Them

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