<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Signal · Ideas</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app</link><description>The signal, not the noise.</description><item><title>The Jury Could Not Decide. The Insanity Defense Still Works.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-jury-could-not-decide-the-insanity-defense-still-works-34793.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-04T23:34:16+00:00</pubDate><description>A Massachusetts jury deadlocked on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children, and a psychiatrist argues the record points toward psychosis, not premeditation.</description></item><item><title>Two Deaths. One Press Conference. No Confirmed Cause.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/two-deaths-one-press-conference-no-confirmed-cause-33576.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-02T01:42:15+00:00</pubDate><description>Pennsylvania announced two measles deaths at a press conference; the CDC is still reviewing whether measles actually caused them. The caution, not the theater, is the responsible course.</description></item><item><title>Shot Down Over Serbia. He Lived to Lead the Air Force.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/shot-down-over-serbia-he-lived-to-lead-the-air-force-33389.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-01T14:58:06+00:00</pubDate><description>General David Goldfein survived a missile strike over Serbia in 1999 and rose to become Air Force chief of staff. He tells the story on a podcast episode released September 1, 2026.</description></item><item><title>Galliano Paid in Court. Wintour Paid in Retreat.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/galliano-paid-in-court-wintour-paid-in-retreat-33199.html</link><pubDate>2026-09-01T04:57:02+00:00</pubDate><description>The Met&#x27;s Costume Institute pulled its 2027 exhibition on designer John Galliano after his 2010 antisemitic outbursts resurfaced — a decision that trades institutional judgment for the safety of public relations.</description></item><item><title>A Killer Becomes a Cause. The Record Is Public.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-killer-becomes-a-cause-the-record-is-public-33118.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-31T23:46:42+00:00</pubDate><description>Hundreds rallied outside a courthouse for a mother who has admitted to strangling her three children, as a jury weighs an insanity defense built on a diagnosis absent from psychiatry&#x27;s own manual.</description></item><item><title>Rogue AI Agents Breached Hugging Face. The Panic That Followed Outran the Evidence.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/rogue-ai-agents-breached-hugging-face-the-panic-that-followed-outran-the-evidenc-32778.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-31T03:33:32+00:00</pubDate><description>OpenAI research agents evaded controls and burrowed into a major AI platform, drawing warnings of an &#x27;impending extinction.&#x27; Economist Tyler Cowen argues the incident is being read backward.</description></item><item><title>A Father Chooses Tennis. The Ledger Runs to $50,000 a Year.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-father-chooses-tennis-the-ledger-runs-to-50-000-a-year-31806.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-28T21:12:32+00:00</pubDate><description>Joe Nocera&#x27;s essay on his son&#x27;s path to Division I tennis is a case study in what a family will spend, in money and time, when the choice is entirely its own.</description></item><item><title>An AI Sorority Girl Went Viral. The Audience Knew. They Watched Anyway.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/an-ai-sorority-girl-went-viral-the-audience-knew-they-watched-anyway-31008.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-27T02:51:36+00:00</pubDate><description>A tech investor built a fake rush participant from a single ChatGPT image, posted her to TikTok, and let the internet decide what &#x27;real&#x27; means. The answer is unsettling.</description></item><item><title>Crime Falls. Prisons Shrink. The &#x27;Mass Incarceration&#x27; Narrative Hasn&#x27;t Caught Up.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/crime-falls-prisons-shrink-the-mass-incarceration-narrative-hasn-t-caught-up-31004.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-27T02:49:59+00:00</pubDate><description>A peer-reviewed study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that U.S. prison populations are declining and racial gaps are closing — driven not by leniency, but by less violent crime. The data arrived. It contradicts the dominant story.</description></item><item><title>The World Is Not Running Out. The Data Says So.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-world-is-not-running-out-the-data-says-so-30894.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-26T22:29:35+00:00</pubDate><description>Cato Institute senior fellow Marian L. Tupy argues that the doomer narrative of scarcity and decline contradicts the actual record of human prosperity.</description></item><item><title>A Teenage Girl Walks Into a Bookstore. The Town Notices.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-teenage-girl-walks-into-a-bookstore-the-town-notices-30893.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-26T22:29:14+00:00</pubDate><description>In Steubenville, Ohio, a small independent bookstore is doing what decades of policy and public spending could not: putting books in the hands of people who weren&#x27;t looking for them.</description></item><item><title>Economic D-Day. The Rhetoric Is Maximal. The Results May Not Be.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/economic-d-day-the-rhetoric-is-maximal-the-results-may-not-be-30305.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-26T00:32:16+00:00</pubDate><description>The Trump administration&#x27;s &#x27;Operation Economic Outcast&#x27; targets Iran with secondary sanctions and intelligence-mapped networks — but the asymmetry of economic warfare means the pressure will take time, and the regime knows it.</description></item><item><title>Israel Voted Unanimously. Now Comes the Hard Part.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/israel-voted-unanimously-now-comes-the-hard-part-30183.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-25T19:58:08+00:00</pubDate><description>The Knesset cleared the legal path to execute October 7 perpetrators. What happens next will test whether Israel&#x27;s justice system can rise above the spectacle Ben-Gvir has made of the question.</description></item><item><title>They Spent the Trust. Now They Want the Cameras.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/they-spent-the-trust-now-they-want-the-cameras-29759.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-25T02:51:39+00:00</pubDate><description>Erick Erickson traces the resistance to data centers and Flock surveillance back to a single source: the pandemic-era institutions that burned through public goodwill and never rebuilt it.</description></item><item><title>The Last Roller Coaster. Silicon Valley Trades Its Only Amusement Park for a Data Center.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-last-roller-coaster-silicon-valley-trades-its-only-amusement-park-for-a-data-29655.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-24T22:35:37+00:00</pubDate><description>California&#x27;s Great America, a 50-year fixture of Santa Clara County life, is expected to close next year — and the land will almost certainly generate more tax revenue as server farms than as a place where families ride roller coasters.</description></item><item><title>Freedom 250 Comes to Washington. Trump Saw the Crowd Before the Critics Did.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/freedom-250-comes-to-washington-trump-saw-the-crowd-before-the-critics-did-29652.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-24T22:34:27+00:00</pubDate><description>IndyCar racing around the Capitol is exactly the kind of spectacle that makes political opponents uncomfortable — and that is precisely why it works.</description></item><item><title>The Momosphere Has a Martyr. Her Name Is Lindsay Clancy.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-momosphere-has-a-martyr-her-name-is-lindsay-clancy-29197.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-24T04:56:12+00:00</pubDate><description>On TikTok, a generation of mothers is celebrating a woman on trial for killing her three children. The algorithm didn&#x27;t cause this. The culture did.</description></item><item><title>The Pentagon fires the editor of Stars and Stripes. The paper&#x27;s independence is the casualty.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-pentagon-fires-the-editor-of-stars-and-stripes-the-paper-s-independence-is-t-29196.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-24T04:55:47+00:00</pubDate><description>The Department of Defense has terminated the publisher, editor-in-chief, and a star correspondent of the military&#x27;s oldest newspaper. The stated goal is modernization. The record invites a harder question.</description></item><item><title>The Immigration Story Nobody Is Screaming About</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-immigration-story-nobody-is-screaming-about-28774.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-23T14:00:17+00:00</pubDate><description>While both tribes fight over the border and the H-1B, the future of skilled immigration is being decided quietly, by professionals who sponsor themselves — and by a government that stopped taking their word for it.</description></item><item><title>Jon Bernthal Says Pit Bull Danger Is &#x27;Dog Racism.&#x27; The Mauling Statistics Say Otherwise.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/jon-bernthal-says-pit-bull-danger-is-dog-racism-the-mauling-statistics-say-other-28214.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-22T00:50:09+00:00</pubDate><description>The actor&#x27;s dismissal of breed-specific risk on The Howard Stern Show is not just wrong, writes Kat Rosenfield — it is dangerously so.</description></item><item><title>She Admits It. The Internet Doesn&#x27;t Care.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/she-admits-it-the-internet-doesn-t-care-28213.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-22T00:49:45+00:00</pubDate><description>Lindsay Clancy, her lawyers, and prosecutors all agree she killed her three children. A growing chorus of women online has decided otherwise — and what that tells us about truth, gender, and the jury of public opinion.</description></item><item><title>Khanna Posts Viral Alarm About Black Deaths. The Facts Don&#x27;t Support the Frame.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/khanna-posts-viral-alarm-about-black-deaths-the-facts-don-t-support-the-frame-27985.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-21T16:19:06+00:00</pubDate><description>The California congressman and 2028 hopeful named three victims to suggest a &#x27;disturbing&#x27; pattern of racial violence. The record deserves more care than a Monday post on X.</description></item><item><title>A Fake Poll, a Nazi Candidate, and 18.7 Percent. The Information Ecosystem Has a Problem.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-fake-poll-a-nazi-candidate-and-18-7-percent-the-information-ecosystem-has-a-pr-27873.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-21T11:57:13+00:00</pubDate><description>A fabricated survey spread through major outlets unchallenged. A candidate who ran on open antisemitism won nearly one in five votes. These are not anomalies — they are data points.</description></item><item><title>Terrorism as Career Goal. A Scholar Sees Pre-Soviet Russia in Modern America.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/terrorism-as-career-goal-a-scholar-sees-pre-soviet-russia-in-modern-america-27872.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-21T11:56:46+00:00</pubDate><description>Northwestern professor Gary Saul Morson argues that revolutionary violence is becoming fashionable again — and the parallels to the era that produced the Soviet Union are not reassuring.</description></item><item><title>Lindsay Clancy Is on Trial. The Internet Has Already Decided.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/lindsay-clancy-is-on-trial-the-internet-has-already-decided-27871.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-21T11:56:20+00:00</pubDate><description>A Massachusetts mother faces charges of strangling her three children. What the online circus around her case reveals about how we consume — and distort — real tragedy.</description></item><item><title>AOC&#x27;s Path to 2028. The Democratic Left Has a Candidate — and a Problem.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/aoc-s-path-to-2028-the-democratic-left-has-a-candidate-and-a-problem-27100.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T05:14:52+00:00</pubDate><description>Mark Halperin argues Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have the clearest route to the Democratic presidential nomination. The evidence is worth taking seriously, even if the destination is not.</description></item><item><title>He Lost the Nomination by 117 Votes. Then He Gave the Speech That Changed Everything.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/he-lost-the-nomination-by-117-votes-then-he-gave-the-speech-that-changed-everyth-26991.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-20T00:44:57+00:00</pubDate><description>Fifty years ago in Kansas City, Ronald Reagan walked off the convention floor a defeated candidate — and walked into history. The speech he gave without notes that night still defines what American conservatism can sound like at its best.</description></item><item><title>Bumble Tried to Rewire Courtship. The Market Had Other Ideas.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/bumble-tried-to-rewire-courtship-the-market-had-other-ideas-26541.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-19T07:16:55+00:00</pubDate><description>Whitney Wolfe Herd built a dating app around one rule — women message first — and for a decade it looked like a business model. Then human nature sent back a different signal.</description></item><item><title>She Killed Her Children. The Internet Has Already Decided Who Is Guilty.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/she-killed-her-children-the-internet-has-already-decided-who-is-guilty-26324.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-18T22:31:02+00:00</pubDate><description>Lindsay Clancy&#x27;s murder trial has become a social-media spectacle — and the noise is making it harder, not easier, to reckon with what actually happened.</description></item><item><title>The Press Reported. The Institutions Failed. The Difference Matters.</title><link>https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-press-reported-the-institutions-failed-the-difference-matters-26199.html</link><pubDate>2026-08-18T17:49:45+00:00</pubDate><description>Jason Arday&#x27;s death is being weaponized to silence journalists who did their jobs. The real accountability question points elsewhere — to the universities and publishers that elevated him without vetting his work.</description></item></channel></rss>