Responsible Statecraft · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed became the latest progressive insurgent to win a Democratic nomination contest on Tuesday, when he bested sitting House Rep. Haley Stevens to become the party’s nominee for Senate in Michigan. At the time of writing, with 95% of the votes counted, El-Sayed had 48.6% to 47.3% for Stevens. Major media networks have called the race for El-Sayed, the former Wayne County health department director. Similar to recent races in New York and Colorado , El-Sayed made his opposition to the U.S.-Israel relationship and pro-Israel lobby groups such as the the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) central to his campaign, framing
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Responsible Statecraft · 05/08/2026
Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, potentially providing both an exit from the current round of fighting and the foundation for a more durable maritime order. Washington should welcome such an agreement—even if it acknowledges a degree of Iranian authority in administering traffic through the strait—because US interest dictates that open and non-discriminatory passage must be given priority over control. The emerging formula would reportedly divide responsibility for the shipping lanes. Vessels entering the Persian Gulf would travel through waters administered by Iran, while outbound traffic
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Responsible Statecraft · 05/08/2026
Questions continue to swirl around the flash flood of nearly 60,000 migrants who swam or walked from Morocco into Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave on the tip of Africa last week. How did so many migrants manage to breach Moroccan border security forces, who appear to have largely disappeared from their stations? Why had so many migrants received social media messages encouraging them to swarm the enclave? Analysts pointed their fingers at the Moroccan government, arguing it was once again deploying “migration blackmail,” as the practice has been dubbed, to punish its European neighbors and bend them to its will. But this time, Israel and the Uni
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Responsible Statecraft · 05/08/2026
Every government institution should periodically be asked a simple question: is it still performing the mission for which Congress created it? That principle has become a hallmark of the Trump administration. Through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the closing of USAID, and the restructuring of federal agencies, the administration has encouraged the reexamination of longstanding institutions to ensure they remain faithful to their original purposes. That question should now be asked of one of Washington's least scrutinized congressional bodies: the U.S. Helsinki Commission. Congress established the U.S. Helsinki Commission in
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Responsible Statecraft · 04/08/2026
Reuters reported this morning that the U.S. has used “virtually all” its long-range precision strike missiles during its war on Iran. Reuters’ sources would not say exactly how many of these surface to surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM), the U.S. military has left. This comes amid news that the U.S. has burned through other key weapons systems since war with Iran began. Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimated the U.S. has fewer than 827 Patriot missiles, and fewer than 278 THAAD ballistic missile interceptors, in its stockpiles. But the d
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Responsible Statecraft · 04/08/2026
As the Senate returns to Washington for its last week in session until mid-September, it faces a long to-do list. But for many senators, the top priority is not enacting legislation that will help Americans but instead rushing to approve the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026 , known colloquially as the “Russia sanctions bill.” A passion project of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, the bill is intended to increase economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The legislation’s backers hope that, by choking off funding for Russia’s war effort, they can force Moscow to make greater concessions in ongoing negotiations to end t
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Responsible Statecraft · 04/08/2026
Robert Kagan surprised some people. One of America’s most influential hawks condemned the Trump administration’s botched war in Iran, suggesting in The Atlantic in March that U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been a catalyst of, rather than a prudent response to, Islamic terrorism. A senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and prolific historian, Kagan has advocated U.S. primacy for decades, starting with his support for Nicaragua’s Contra insurgents as the head of the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy (1985-88). In 1997, Kagan co-founded Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative think tank that lobbied for
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The American Conservative · 05/08/2026
Foreign Affairs The Ceuta Affair Tests American ‘Civilizationism’ What really happened in Spanish Africa last week? Photo by Marcos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images At the end of July, the Spanish exclave of Ceuta found itself on the receiving end of an invasion. Ceuta is, alongside its sister city Melilla and a few barren rocks along the Moroccan coastline, all that remains of a 600-year-old Iberian presence in North Africa. And last Thursday and Friday, more than 70,000 migrants surged into this small Spanish foothold, overwhelming the security forces and making themselves at home. In some sense, this was predictable. The prime minister of S
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The American Conservative · 05/08/2026
Foreign Affairs Japanese PM’s China Hawkism Garners Diminishing Support Sanae Takaichi’s foreign policy might be too bold even for the Trump administration. Photo by David Mareuil / POOL / AFP via Getty Images There is little doubt that Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, wants her country to play a more active and assertive role in regional security affairs. She also favors adopting a more hardline posture toward the People’s Republic of China (PRC). A key question remains, however: whether international allies, Japan’s political elite, and a majority of the Japanese public are willing to follow that course. Recent developments suggest t
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The American Conservative · 05/08/2026
Foreign Affairs Why Are We Still at War With Iran? Nearly six months into the conflict, the United States is further than ever from victory. Photo by AFP via Getty Images Despite being subjected to one of the most intensive bombing campaigns in modern history, the Islamic Republic of Iran has thus far failed to yield to any of the United States’ demands. There has been no regime change; no compromise on enrichment or the nuclear issue more broadly; no acceptance of conventional disarmament or an end to the so-called “axis of resistance;” and no let-up of Iran’s chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz. And that, a July assessment by America’s inte
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The American Conservative · 04/08/2026
On Tuesday—day 158 of the Iran War—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that there had been “progress made in [Iran] talks, but not finality yet,” while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that “there is a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Asked by CNBC on Tuesday if Iran would be allowed to charge a toll to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Bessent did not explicitly reject the possibility, instead saying that there would be “freedom of movement.” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday denied that any negotiations with the U.S. were ongoing. Iran says that it is negotiating with
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The American Conservative · 04/08/2026
Foreign Affairs The American Believability Crisis Bad things happen when nobody takes you seriously. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Last week, there was a lot of rumbling out of Washington about a massive escalation against Iran. Admiral Brad Cooper, who is currently the king of the wood in CENTCOM, had reportedly hatched a “go-big” option that would grievously damage Iranian military assets—in the depressed dialect of military press releases, “degrade their capabilities”—while drawing only a limited response, thus saving our dwindling supplies of defensive weapons. Conversations swirled about striking “Pickaxe Mountain,” an annex
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The American Conservative · 04/08/2026
UK Special Coverage Europe’s Lure for Labour Despite electoral headwinds, rejoining the EU is a tempting prospect for Andy Burnham’s party. UK Special Coverage Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Image Ten years on from the UK’s vote for Brexit, and five years since the divorce was made official, the blow is still keenly felt by many who backed the losing side. Particularly in the governing Labour Party, many erstwhile Remainers continue to be tempted by the EU’s siren song—and see Andy Burnham’s ascension as their chance to put rejoining back on the table. After all, it was only last year that Burnham (then the mayor of Gre
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Ars Technica · 05/08/2026
The Infinite Machine Olto is a great electric scooter, one with an overall layout that echoes the classic Vespa. It's comfortable, and it accelerates well, handles nicely, and has a capacious battery. It has a rugged design that seems capable of handling a lot of abuse, but it also comes with thoughtful touches and security features that mean you can park it anywhere with confidence. And it provides all that at less than half the cost of its full-featured stablemate, the P1 scooter. The reason is that the Olto is also a bicycle. Sort of. This may technically be a bicycle, but it's not one you ever want to pedal. While you can set it to operat
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Ars Technica · 04/08/2026
Tesla's factory in Shanghai had its best June ever, according to the China Passenger Car Association. Tesla built 93,579 cars in China that month, a hefty 38 percent increase compared to June 2025, according to CPCA's data. But that production isn't translating into bumper sales to Chinese customers. Rather, sales have been down quarter on quarter in China for more than a year now, particularly as buyers tire of the Model 3 sedan . Almost 40 percent of the EVs that Tesla built in June were destined for export. And in Q2 in total, more than 50 percent—just—of the cars it built were for Europe, Canada, and other Asian markets: 128,394 versus t
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Ars Technica · 04/08/2026
Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican who was House majority leader from 2003 to 2005, said the Federal Communications Commission has no legal authority to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule. Despite DeLay's warning, the Trump FCC appears ready to eliminate the rule at its meeting this week. DeLay wrote an op-ed describing how he helped write the law that prohibited any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. DeLay said that only Congress, not the Trump FCC, can change the cap because the 39 percent limit is specified in US law and wasn't chosen by the commission. DeLay gave his v
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MIT News - Artificial Intelligence · 04/08/2026
A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had different impacts depending on the users’ knowledge level. Explainable AI methods help users know when to trust a model’s predictions by describing or validating the model’s decision-making. For instance, a model might use a heat map to highlight image regions that were most important in its diagnosis
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MIT News - Artificial Intelligence · 03/08/2026
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics, associate director of the IDSS, and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) who has been SDSC director since 2021. Philippe Rigollet, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and a core faculty member in
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MIT News - Artificial Intelligence · 30/07/2026
Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems. Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it is the most highly endowed award for technology and engineering in Germany. Rus accepted the prize on July 23 at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence. The selection committee cited four strands of her work: self-organizing robot collectives
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MIT News - Artificial Intelligence · 29/07/2026
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration and key clinical data gathering. Data were siloed and difficult to distribute, so those looking to undertake research had no option but to gather them themselves. This not only made research more expensive, but it was challenging to compare findings across datasets. In 1975, researchers studying arrhythmias at MIT and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital envisioned another way: the team began collecting and digitizing electrocardiogram recordings with the
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Tandis que le débat sur l’enseignement à domicile s’invite en Allemagne sur fond de controverse politique, la presse allemande se penche sur l’expérience que des expats en ont faite en Australie et au Portugal.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Des navires traversent le détroit d’Ormuz, au large de la ville portuaire de Khasab, sur la péninsule omanaise de Musandam, le 17 mai 2026.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Nafisa (Mihad Murtada) et sa grand-mère Al-Sit (Rabha Mohamed Mahmoud) sont les héroïnes du premier long-métrage de Suzannah Mirghani, “Cotton Queen”, en salle le 5 août.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Les soutiens du candidat Abdul El-Sayed attendent les résultats de la primaire au Majestic Theatre à Détroit, dans le Michigan, le 4 août 2026.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Todd Blanche, ministre de la Justice par intérim, à la Chambre des représentants, à Washington, le 2 juin 2026.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
La commune de Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, le 14 juillet 2025, cinq ans après les inondations meurtrières qui l’ont dévastée.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Des migrants venus du Maroc passent dans l’enclave espagnole de Ceuta, le 31 juillet 2026.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 05/08/2026
Masha et son ami l’ours Michka sont les héros du dessin animé russe “Masha et Michka”, accusé par des députés britanniques de faire de la propagande pro-Kremlin.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 04/08/2026
Un porte-conteneurs dans le port de Long Beach, en Californie, le 17 juillet 2026.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 04/08/2026
Le Batallón Paraíso, caserne militaire en pleine rénovation dans la ville de Barranquilla, le 3 août 2026. Le président colombien élu, Abelardo de la Espriella, a fait part de son intention d’en faire l’une des résidences présidentielles officielles.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 04/08/2026
Des employés du Queen’s Hospital, à Romford (Angleterre), en mars 2023.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 04/08/2026
La musicienne russe Zemfira (au centre), qui a émigré après l’invasion de l’Ukraine en 2022, assiste au tournoi de tennis de Roland-Garros, à Paris, le 4 juin 2023.
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Courrier International - Tous les RSS · 04/08/2026
L’hôtel de Matignon lors de la passation de pouvoir de François Bayrou à Sébastien Lecornu, actuel Premier ministre, le 10 septembre 2025 à Paris.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 04/08/2026
Une vue des rues d’Oulan-Bator, la capitale mongole, en février 2025.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 04/08/2026
Image satellite diffusée par l’Iran montrant les dommages subis par plusieurs structures de la base aérienne Muwaffaq-Salti, en Jordanie, frappée entre le 15 et le 17 juillet 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 04/08/2026
Une vue du Parlement de Nauru à Yaren, la capitale de l’île, le 24 janvier 2024. La pays a été rebaptisé Naoero en 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 04/08/2026
Des soldats de l’armée éthiopienne lors de la guerre du Tigré, le 11 décembre 2021, à Kombolcha, en Éthiopie.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 04/08/2026
La Première ministre danoise, Mette Frederiksen, et le président américain, Donald Trump, lors du sommet de l’Otan à Ankara (Turquie), le 8 juillet 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Un enfant palestinien au milieu des décombres dans le camp de réfugiés palestiniens de Jabalia, dans le nord de la bande de Gaza, le 2 août 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Des soldats israéliens dans la bande de Gaza, le 31 mars 2024.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Un passant à vélo photographie le restaurant italien Balzi Rossie, désormais bloqué par des barrières de sécurité, à la suite d’un attentat meurtrier survenu le 1er août dans le centre de Moscou, en Russie, le 2 août 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Des résidents de la vallée de Swat évacuent un blessé après un attentat-suicide qui a coûté la vie à quinze personnes, le 2 août 2025 à Kabal, dans le nord du Pakistan.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Une Palestinienne déplacée réagit en observant la destruction d’abris de fortune à la suite d’une frappe aérienne israélienne ayant visé Deir El-Balah, dans le centre de la bande de Gaza, le 1er août 2026.
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Courrier International - Géopolitique · 03/08/2026
Le président américain Donald Trump s’adresse aux journalistes à bord d’Air Force One, le 2 août 2026 (Photo d’Anna Moneymaker / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP).
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Courrier International - Économie · 04/08/2026
Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, reçu à la Maison-Blanche le 28 juillet.
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Courrier International - Économie · 04/08/2026
Devant la cathédrale Sainte-Sophie de Harbin, symbole du passé russe de la région, dans la province du Heilongjiang (Chine), le 11 décembre 2023.
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Courrier International - Économie · 03/08/2026
Le chef indonésien Sam Butarbutar prépare une boisson au matcha, le 15 juillet 2025 à Berkeley, aux Etats-Unis.
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La Presse · 05/08/2026
Dans sa revue de presse du mercredi 5 août, Paul Arcand se penche sur l’état d’urgence déclenché dans la municipalité de L’Ascension dans les Laurentides, qui se retrouve paralysée après que des pluies diluviennes aient provoqué l’affaissement de plusieurs routes, dont l’effondrement d’une partie de sa rue Principale.
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Le Grand Continent · 05/08/2026
À moins de cent jours des élections de mi-mandat de novembre, plus d’une douzaine d’États tiennent des primaires en août. Deux sièges décisifs dans le Michigan et en Alaska sont au cœur de la course. Le Michigan est un obstacle majeur pour les républicains. Selon Decision Desk HQ, remporter cet État suffirait à porter à 87 % la probabilité pour le Parti républicain de conserver la majorité au Sénat. Les primaires dans le Michigan, le Minnesota, le Wisconsin et le Kansas permettront donc de tester, chez les démocrates, l’équilibre entre l’aile centriste et l’aile populiste après les défaites de 2024, et, chez les républicains, l’emprise de Don
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Le Grand Continent · 05/08/2026
Publié fin juillet, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 est le dernier modèle de la série DeepSeek-V4, conçue pour offrir une forte efficacité en contexte long : réduire les coûts de calcul et de mémoire sans dégrader les capacités du modèle, tout en explorant des architectures à plus faible latence. Le modèle reprend exactement l’architecture et la taille du DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Preview d’avril (284 milliards de paramètres, dont 13 milliards activés, et un contexte d’un million de tokens) mais intègre de nouvelles recettes de post-entraînement destinées notamment à renforcer ses capacités agentiques. Avec V4-Flash, le pari de DeepSeek n’est pas d’égaler la
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Le Grand Continent · 05/08/2026
Tout l’été, le Grand Continent restera en mouvement. Chaque jour, nous vous apporterons où que vous soyez des idées que vous ne trouverez nulle part ailleurs (mais qui seront partout à la rentrée), des textes introuvables ou rafraîchissants avec nos Dimanches . Pour les recevoir directement dans votre boîte mail et soutenir cet élan, pensez à vous abonner à la revue Depuis le 30 juillet, des analyses circulent en Europe selon lesquelles les autorités marocaines auraient joué un rôle dans la crise migratoire de Ceuta, soit en laissant faire, soit en étant à l’origine du mouvement de plus de 50 000 personnes qui a provoqué au moins 80 morts. À
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