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Trump Backs Down on Iran, and an A.I. ‘Reckoning’

April 8, 2026·8 min·4-min readnarrativepolitics
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The podcast episode, hosted by Tracy Mumford of The New York Times, delivers a news briefing covering three major developments: a sudden U.S.-Iran ceasefire following President Trump’s apocalyptic threat of war; behind-the-scenes reporting on how Trump was persuaded to go to war by I

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