It’s blunt instead of vague, brash instead of evasive, bold instead of cautious. And yet the word obfuscates as much as old defense jargon. By Nitsuh Abebe “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality.” The ...

Army infantry recruits tackle the confidence course on Fort Benning, Georgia. (Christopher Hurd/U.S. Army) In a sweeping change to its enlistment regulations, the Army has raised the maximum age for ...

Your monthly Social Security payment is influenced by three main factors. Social Security caps the wages that count toward your benefit calculation each year. The year in which you were born can have ...

The defense secretary has disparaged restrictive rules for opening fire that are aimed at reducing the risk of mistakes and civilian casualties. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage has written about ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

The X algorithm’s promotion of conservative content may shift the political opinions of those who switch to its “For You” tab after previously using a purely chronological feed, a study published ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

Is it possible to prevent an heir from spending their inheritance on things to which we are diametrically opposed? I would hate for our money to end up in the hands of organizations that oppose ...

The Social Security Fairness Act was passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority and signed into law on Jan. 5, 2025, by President Joe Biden. Now, several senators are calling on the Social ...