American Affairs

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“Nuclear recycling with the latest methods would allow developers to access a gold mine of stored energy for civilian use, lay the foundations for a closed fuel cycle, and eliminate one of the most glaring chokepoints in the U.S. energy mix,” writes Jasper Boers.

“Cybercrime is increasingly both a revenue stream and an operational enabler for advanced persistent state-backed threats, supplementing broader campaigns of espionage, disruption, and influence,” writes @RSI’s Haiman Wong. americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/02/ive-be…

“Nuremberg Christianity, by contrast, painted bombs and drones in rainbow colors, and it assumed, or rather demanded, that even the most cynical arms manufacturer should make a display of good faith and moral rectitude,” writes Malcom Kyeyune.

“@dwarkesh_sp has captured something messier. His is a snapshot of a cohort of technical elites who do not fully understand what they are building but have reason to believe it might be the most important innovation ever to be built,” writes @sophiabrownh.

“What, then, are we to make of the NSS and of Trump’s foreign policy? It obviously marks the end of the liberal international order, to the dismay of globalists everywhere,” writes @DrLeeJones.

“Whether or not Maduro’s ouster is eventually viewed as a strategic success in and outside of the hemisphere will likely depend on the White House’s understanding of the country’s pre-intervention crises,” writes @rojasrjuand.

“Throughout history, great states have rested on unglamorous foundations: industrial depth, maintenance ecosystems, standardized training, and bureaucracies that learn through iteration rather than reset through avoidance,” writes @byzantinepower.

“In mature economies, the most consequential industrial policy often operates through the institutional plumbing that determines whether investment is feasible at all,” writes Christos Makridis.

“No previous U.S. investment bubble has had as many powerful forces working together to create and sustain a bubble based on such unrealistic technology and expectations,” writes Hubert Horan.

“What started to turn finance from a driver of American manufacturing and innovation into a rent-seeking industry were three main changes: the rise of leveraged buyouts, the decline of partnerships, and the advent of financialization,” writes @LimasHeberto.