The state of play in Russia-Ukraine ... Anatol: Here’s how the war could end ... Which side wants peace more? ... Why hasn’t Trump used his leverage? ... Anatol’s plan for peace ... What Russia-Ukraine reveals about the military-industrial complex ... What Trump's military purges reveal about his presidency ... Heading to Overtime ...

The new NonZero World ... Headlines ... Stories of the week ... Michael Brendan Dougherty on Pope Francis' foreign policy legacy ... Michael: The pope should be a voice for peace ... A European church no more ... Michael: The Vatican went too far in deal with China ... How the Holy See helped Obama reach out to Cuba ... The pope's moral clarity on Gaza ... A restrainer in the Vatican? ...

Trump and Elon’s bad week = good news for Bob… ... …but bad news for Canada's prime minister? ... Trump’s crackdown on speech expands ... Debating embryo-screening ethics ... Heading to Overtime ...

Pratap’s bona fides ... How Pratap ran afoul of Modi (and the price he paid) ... Trump vs Modi: compare and contrast ... India’s birth as a multi-ethnic state ... Pratap on how we got Trump (and Modi) ... Heading to Overtime ...

Nikita: Leaving Russia. The psychedelic lineage. Humanity is a trip, not a species ... 16 years ago, Boris took such a good nap after visiting a sacred Ancient Greek site that he still thinks about it ... In The Dark Places of Wisdom: mystical practices at the root of Western civilization ... What makes us feel we belong: identity & community ... Humanity as a planetary force ... What makes us feel we belong: values & norms ... What makes us feel we belong: direct experience ... Psychedelics & meditation in service of planetary identity ... “To be” comes from the word "to grow", "am" & "is" from "to breath" ... Rationalists ... How Socrates got himself killed ... What makes us feel we belong: awareness of inter-dependence ... Gaia, humanity, and AI are 3 generations of planetary forces ... Zizians. There's something to be said about dogma ... “DMT, death, and nanobots are the same thing, somehow” ... Humanity is still being born ... Ideas are alive ... JFK's "my fellow Americans" address, in which he casts the country as a peer to the citizen ... VR brings us back into the body ... The human experience is an image that arises from the play of ideas and matter ... Agency found in choosing one's metaphors ... Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message ... Homeric rhapsodes ... Conversation as distributed thinking ...

Ron violates retirement dress code ... Trump’s “antisemitism crackdown" ... Is the Israel lobby bad for American Jews? ... The disturbing Tufts detention case ... Why don’t more progressive Jews call out the Israel lobby? ... How bad journalism makes antisemitism worse ... Heading to Overtime ...

Sam's theory of (some of) Trump's tariffs ... The bad scenario and the less bad scenario ... Scott Bessent's radicalism ... Will Trump display the art of the deal? ... China's trade-war strengths ... An intentional end to American hegemony? ... Sam’s defense of chip restrictions ... Heading to Overtime ...

Sina's hopes for this weekend's US-Iran talks ... Trump's two-month clock starts ticking ... Iran's growing nuclear leverage ... Trump the dealmaker vs Trump the warmonger ... The myth of a "surgical" military campaign against Iran ... The resurgence of Iran's reformist camp ...

Paul is Bob's worthwhile Canadian initiative ... The psycho-logic of Trump’s tariff strategy ... Has Trump exposed structural flaws in America? ... Is Musk saying Navarro is dumber than Ivanka? ... On incest ... Heading to Overtime ...

Milton’s epic new comic, “Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds” ... Comics culture, then and now ... The real story behind the faux War of the Worlds broadcast ... Why Milton was drawn to Orson Welles ... What (or who) really derailed Welles’s career? ... Will Milton's comic go multimedia? ... Heading to Overtime—with Bob in the hot seat ...