Ingrid Burke Friedman

I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude to...

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The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Timothy Kelly blocking the executive exclusion of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White House complex is being widely heralded as a triumphant...

In this five-part series, data analyst David Stasior demonstrates how AI can turn unstructured legal records into measurable data, testing the rule of law against empirical reality. Part 1 made the ca...

Rumors are swirling of a possible summit involving the leaders of the world's three most powerful nations: the United States, China, and Russia. Ostensibly, the purpose of such a gathering would be to...

Every Tuesday, Iranians gather—online, in diaspora communities, in whispered conversations inside the country—to say the one thing the Islamic Republic fears most: No to execution. It is a phrase that...

Editor’s note: This piece is satire, written in the form of an amicus brief. The New York Times reported on Oct. 28 that officials with Mary Peltola’s campaign worked with other operatives to recruit...

A satellite’s planned maneuver can be both a warning to avoid and a signal to exploit. When a spacecraft operator provides the space safety service with the predicted ephemeris, covariance, and maneuv...

On the morning of Nov. 2, 2025, in Zeytoon Park, in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, a municipal operation to remove a small food stall brought the authority of the state into direct contact with the materia...

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