The Republic is a journal published by The Palantir Foundation, featuring commentary and essays on technology, national security policy, and international affairs.
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The Greenlandic Watershed
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The United States of America is beginning the multipolar era with an enviable position on the global chess board. If one imagines a three-way game, the other two players, Russia and China, are in far weaker positions. America’s hemisphere is…
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The European Union’s AI Act, which entered into force in August 2024, represents the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for AI. Implementation falls to the European AI Office, established to develop technical standards for applying the law, coordinate enforcement across…
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America is hurtling towards an energy transformation. The U.S. government and private enterprises are investing $500 billion over several years to build new artificial intelligence manufacturing hubs, data centers, and compute clusters. Several of these will demand more power than…
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When an August 2025 photograph from the Oval Office showed Donald Trump seated behind his desk, lecturing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a row of confused European leaders, it instantly became a symbol of Europe’s geopolitical reality. Commentators’ complaint that…
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The Iron Curtain fell decades ago, but its legacy lives on. Despite the institutional connections tying Europe together, such as the EU and NATO, there is an emerging division in European culture and politics. While Western Europe is the continent’s…
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A common narrative in Europe persists that the United Kingdom’s geopolitical status has been weakened after Brexit. Similar views exist in the United States, where the argument has been made that Britain has recently become too liberal, too “woke,” to…
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The strategic relevance of space has only increased in the 21st century, with the domain once again a primary arena for geopolitical competition between West and East. While Western satellite networks have been indispensable in the war in Ukraine, complacency…
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Diplomacy today has entered an age defined by artificial intelligence, real-time media, and autonomous systems. AI will not replace diplomacy. But it will fundamentally alter how it is practiced, and who practices it well. The future of diplomacy will hinge…
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At midnight last Wednesday, nineteen Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace. Within minutes Dutch F-35s scrambled, Polish F-16s vectored to intercept, Italian surveillance planes coordinated the response, and German Patriot missile systems stood ready.1 That night, Europe demonstrated that it…
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Of America’s four principal geostrategic adversaries – China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea – two are petrostates highly dependent on oil revenues to fund their national ambitions. Petroleum comprises 20 percent of Russia’s GDP and 25 percent of Iran’s GDP,…
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President Trump’s historic second term targets a vision for the country with a renewed American resolve to lead, innovate, and exist without apology as the envy of the world. He wants to put America First. A shining example of this…
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There has been a new information revolution. It has been driven by a step change in compute scale, which has made a qualitative change in the ability of AI to generate content. Traditional probability-based algorithms driving discovery and targeting of…
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Berlyn Brixner. Nuclear Explosion, Trinity Test Site (Reproduction of Photographs Marked “SECRET”). New Mexico, July 16, 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, Manuscript Division (042.01.02).
