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Episode #54

We’re back! On this week’s episode, Bill and Phil discuss the contested history of the country’s founding, Israel ushering in the era of AI-based war, the death of Donald Rumsfeld, India’s use of Covid to undermine democracy, and where historians placed Donald Trump in their latest rankings.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “The Battle for 1776” By Jennifer Schuessler in The New York Times

• “Killer Flying Robots Are Here. What Do We Do Now?” by Vivek Wadhwa in Foreign Policy

• “First "AI War": Israel Used World's First AI-Guided Swarm Of Combat Drones In Gaza Attacks” in IFLScience

• “How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered” by George Packer in The Atlantic

• “India has become an ‘electoral autocracy.’ Its covid-19 catastrophe is no surprise.” by Prerna Singh in The Monkey Cage/Washington Post

• “Historians just ranked the presidents. Trump wasn’t last.” by Gillian Brockell in The Washington Post

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