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My interview with the director and screenwriter of “A House of Dynamite”


I enjoyed talking to Kathryn Bigelow and Noah Oppenheim. Hope you enjoy the conversation.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/a-conversation-with-kathryn-bigelow-director-of-a-house-of-dynamite-and-screenwriter-noah-oppenheim/#post-heading

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 28: (L-R) Jared Harris, Noah Oppenheim, Kathryn Bigelow and Dennis Lim attend the “A House Of Dynamite” Intro/Q&A during 63rd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on September 28, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for FLC)

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Go to the Trump tracker, so you don’t have to track Trump


The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ extraordinary multimedia editor Thomas Gaulkin built an amazing interactive that tracks President Trump’s various actions that relate to existential threats to humanity. It’s quite amazing. As I just said, and then repeated. You should take a look.

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The Pravda network is making the internet even worse


Feeding Russian garbage into AI training datasets could pollute the entire web. Here’s how: https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/russian-networks-flood-the-internet-with-propaganda-aiming-to-corrupt-ai-chatbots/#post-heading

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The trouble with Elon’s approach to Mars


This is a smart and innovative take on Elon Musk’s plan to start a Mars colony that (ahem) will not be beholden to any Earth-bound country. What could possibly go wrong, when a private citizen tries to blow up the Outer Space Treaty? Read it here: https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars-attacks-how-elon-musks-plans-to-colonize-mars-threaten-earth/#post-heading

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I try to explain the Trump-Vance-Zelensky fiasco


I think the whole dust-up in the Oval Office was planned ahead of time. The finger-pointing by Vance and then Trump. But watch this video—annotated by Bulletin of Atomic Scientists multimedia master Thomas Gaulkin and me—and judge for yourself.

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If you want to protect democracy…


You’ll want to read the Bulletin‘s September issue here.

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Stories you shouldn’t miss


The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published many in-depth/investigative articles over the last couple of years. They told important stories of global scope that weren’t being told (or were underemphasized) elsewhere. I guarantee you’ll learn something (or a lot of somethings) if you read through them. They’re gathered here.

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My interview with Chris Nolan, director of ‘Oppenheimer’


I had fun interviewing Chris Nolan about his newest movie. I hope you enjoy the result.

OPPENHEIMER, written and directed by Christopher Nolan

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The salmon problem


This is a wonderful in-depth piece on the farmed Atlantic salmon that you’ve probably been eating, which does not come from the Atlantic Ocean and, in Chile, causes all sorts of environmental problems. Read it here.

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CJR on me, again


If the Columbia Journalism Review keeps writing about me this favorably, I’m going to have to start a CJR/Mecklin vertical. See over-kind assessment here.

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