This week, Walter Russell Mead and Bill Drexel discuss Anthropic’s blockbuster initial-public-offering filing and its warnings about artificial intelligence, reports that the United States is preparing a short, intense renewal of the Iran war after the midterms, Kim Jong Un’s surprise trip across a newly finished bridge into China, and whether Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s comeback in Brazil and Aleksandar Vučić’s defeat in Serbia mean the world has passed peak Donald Trump.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs the golden book as he meets Norway’s king on October 20, 2026, at the Royal Palace in Oslo. (Getty Images)