Army veteran Paul Rieckhoff joined WBUR’s Here & Now with host Indira Lakshmanan to unpack new polling showing the war in Iran has become more unpopular than the Iraq War — rivaling Afghanistan and Vietnam — as the nation marked the dignified transfer of U.S. service members killed in the conflict at Dover Air Force Base.
WBUR Here & Now: U.S. military losses deepen disapproval of war in Iran
The Brief
→ Four things from today’s episode
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Why Paul is calling AI the number one national security threat. bigger than Trump himself
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The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with th. The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with three US government websites this summer without the lab’s knowledge
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How NATO, the UN, Congress, and the World Bank are failing to keep up with AI. and why Congress being out of session makes it worse
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The Iran war as a sucking chest wound. gas and diesel prices soaring, Republicans finally breaking with Trump as midterm pictures darken
Show Notes
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