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February 23, 2026
AI's "centaur phase" consumes Silicon Valley
A manic new phase of the AI boom is sweeping through Silicon Valley, powered by autonomous "agents" capable of liquefying weeks of manual labor into minutes.Why it matters: For now, the frenzy is l...
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February 19, 2026
Europe answers Trump's call on Ukraine
Data: Kiel Institute; Note: Converted from euros to USD using the exchange rate as of Feb. 13, 2026; Kavya Beheraj/AxiosFour years after Russia's invasion, Europe has quietly replaced the United St...
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February 12, 2026
A year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better
President Trump has become so politically toxic that voters now say Joe Biden — whose unpopularity forced him into early retirement — did a better job as president, according to three new polls.Why...
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February 10, 2026
Europe's leadership crisis
Data: Morning Consult; Chart: Axios VisualsU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life, rejecting calls to resign yesterday as fallout from the Epstein files threatened to b...
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February 9, 2026
Crypto revolt exposes fragility of Trump's coalition
Trillions of dollars in value have been vaporized from global crypto markets since October, plunging an ascendant industry championed by President Trump into a new bout of turmoil.Why it matters: C...
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February 5, 2026
AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning
A trio of AI titans is barreling toward watershed IPOs this year, posing the ultimate test of whether their lofty ambitions, breakneck spending and founder feuds can survive life under public scrut...
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February 3, 2026
Why the Epstein scandal may never die
The internet is awash in speculation, suspicion and disgust over the millions of new pages of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday.Few believe the story is anywhere ne...
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February 1, 2026
Prediction markets have a fake news problem
Prediction markets have emerged as an unlikely engine of viral misinformation, pumping out false, misleading and context-free claims to millions of people on social media.Why it matters: Once a nic...
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January 28, 2026
Minneapolis killings cut short America's post-election apathy
The killing of Alex Pretti has destabilized the cultural settlement that took hold after the 2024 election, dragging non-political actors and institutions back into the eye of a national reckoning....
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January 22, 2026
5 winners from Trump's Greenland climbdown
DAVOS, Switzerland — A four-day Greenland crisis that roiled global markets, endangered the transatlantic alliance and dominated Davos ended Wednesday the same way it began: with a post on Truth So...
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January 21, 2026
Exclusive: DeepMind CEO "surprised" OpenAI moved so fast on ads
DAVOS, Switzerland — As Silicon Valley races to monetize AI chatbots, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Axios he was "a little bit surprised" OpenAI moved so fast on introducing ads in ChatGP...
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January 20, 2026
The great Davos divorce: America's allies draw red line with Trump
DAVOS, Switzerland — America's closest allies declared an end to the U.S.-led global order on Tuesday, concluding that President Trump's relentless coercion had exposed its fatal flaws. Why it matt...
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January 20, 2026
EU chief warns there's no going back after Trump's Greenland threats
DAVOS, Switzerland — The European Union's chief executive called for "permanent" independence from the U.S. on Tuesday, framing President Trump's hostility toward allies as a rupture on the scale o...
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January 19, 2026
Exclusive: Meta's Dina Powell McCormick calls for AI rivals to center "humanity"
DAVOS, Switzerland — In her first interview as Meta's new president and vice chairman, Dina Powell McCormick argued that AI is a "group sport" that will require cooperation among tech rivals to kee...
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January 19, 2026
Davos warning from BlackRock's Fink: Capitalism must evolve
DAVOS, Switzerland -- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink will open the World Economic Forum with a blunt acknowledgment that Davos — and the economic system it represents — is facing a crisis of legitimacy.W...
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January 18, 2026
How Trump's ruthless first year erased the Biden presidency
President Trump has spent his first year in office treating Joe Biden's presidency as a historical aberration — not just undoing his policies, but casting his entire term as illegitimate.Why it mat...
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January 16, 2026
Exclusive: Global trust data finds our shared reality is collapsing
Democracy, markets and social cohesion all depend on some shared understanding of facts and legitimacy.The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer, set to be released Sunday, reveals deep cracks in that found...
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January 14, 2026
Trump's heavy hand tightens grip on U.S. economy
President Trump is reaching deeper than ever into the gears of the U.S. economy, attempting to harness state power to directly shape prices, markets, interest rates and corporate behavior.Why it ma...
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January 11, 2026
New year's blitz reveals Trump's limitless view of power
The first week of 2026 left little ambiguity about what President Trump thinks of power — or whether there are any limits on his. Just listen to him and top aide Stephen Miller.Trump to The New Yor...
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January 8, 2026
ICE killing instantly fractures America into two
Within minutes of yesterday's fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, the country had splintered into two irreconcilable camps — one crying murder, the other terrorism.Why it matters: In another era, re...
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January 8, 2026
Trump's "Donroe Doctrine" sets U.S. on collision course with Russia and China
President Trump is moving to eject America's adversaries from the Western Hemisphere, seizing on the momentum of an extraordinary show of force in Venezuela.Why it matters: With allies and adversar...
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December 23, 2025
5 turning points that explain MAGA's civil war
For nearly a decade, MAGA and Donald Trump were synonymous.Today, the movement's most consequential fights are unfolding beyond the control of its term-limited president — empowering rival factions...
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December 20, 2025
Influencers play detective — and unleash chaos
As police scoured New England this week for the gunman who killed two people at Brown University, a parallel manhunt erupted online, falsely targeting a Palestinian student.Authorities say the real...
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December 19, 2025
Year of the Epstein files enters final chapter
After years of mystery and months of turmoil, the Justice Department is expected on Friday to release — as required by law — the bulk of its unclassified archive on Jeffrey Epstein.Why it matters: ...
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December 16, 2025
White House launches damage control over unfiltered Wiles interviews
The White House rushed to defend chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday after her blunt private views on President Trump's first year were revealed in a series of stunning on-the-record interviews.W...
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December 10, 2025
Trump's new cold war with Europe
The Trump administration is engaged in open hostilities with the European Union, turning long-simmering feuds over free speech, Ukraine and mass migration into official U.S. policy.Why it matters: ...
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December 6, 2025
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
President Trump's Cabinet applauded him this week after he described Somali immigrants as "garbage" who "contribute nothing. He unapologetically condemned an entire community, with no fear of polit...
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December 3, 2025
Trump invites America's wealthiest to fund his presidency
Private wealth has become an operational arm of the Trump presidency, bankrolling pet projects and policies on a scale unmatched by any previous administration.Why it matters: The generosity of Ame...
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December 2, 2025
Trump wields pardon authority as absolute power — to help loyalists
President Trump has embraced clemency as an expression of raw political power, seizing on a unique authority designed to go unchecked by Congress, the Constitution or the courts.Why it matters: No ...
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November 26, 2025
"America First" scars loom over Trump's Venezuela campaign
President Trump is flirting with one of the most toxic ideas in American politics — a new foreign military intervention — at one of the most precarious moments of his second term.Why it matters: Tr...
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