The New York Times

President Trump’s war in Iran isn’t so much a strategy as a game of “Risk,” says the Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie. On “The Opinions” podcast, he explains that the administration sees the world as “we big, they small,” with other nations as non-playable characters reacting to America, the “protagonists of reality.”

The Iranian people are not overthrowing their government, and the war is spreading across the region.

What happens when the A.I. tools helping to run the country stop sharing the government’s goals? The former Trump A.I. adviser Dean Ball joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to discuss the looming threat of institutional misalignment.

The Pentagon’s attack on Anthropic is a signal of government-sanctioned suppression, Trump’s former A.I. adviser Dean Ball argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”