China Is Committing Another Holocaust

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear that the Chinese Communist Party’s oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang is nothing short of genocide and reaches the same level as the Nazi genocide of Jews and others in the Holocaust. Pompeo condemned the genocide in no uncertain terms, perhaps in order to prevent incoming President Joe Biden from going soft on China’s oppression.

AI Predicts Nightmare Covid-19 Mutations

The silver lining is that our existing vaccines and antibody therapies are still likely to be effective against the new strain. But that’s not always the case. “Viral escape” is a nightmare scenario, in which the virus mutates just enough so that existing antibodies no longer recognize it. The consequences are dire: it means that even if you’ve already had the infection, or produced antibodies from a vaccine, those protections are now kneecapped or useless.

The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming

The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying.

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