Philly Wants to Send a Socialist to Congress
Philadelphia’s Third Congressional District, considered the bluest in the country, is hosting one of its most competitive races in years. What began as a field of over a dozen candidates is now down t
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Gustavo Petro’s Last Push to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
The Caribbean port city of Santa Marta sits at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Colombia’s Magdalena department. Along its shoreline runs the Drummond terminal, named after the coal multinat
Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t.
Over time, the Soviet Union developed a system of centralized planning that became synonymous with socialism. How did the system work? What did it get right? And why did it ultimately become so associ
How Mohammed Mossadegh’s Liberal Anti-Imperialism Collapsed
For the US government, violently imposing its will on the Iranian people is a generational tradition. The most consequential of those interventions took place in 1953, when US and UK intelligence over
Corporate Democrats Still Don’t Understand Housing
Massachusetts Congressman Jake Auchincloss recently sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the conservative columnist Bret Stephens. In that interview, he was asked to explain to a hypothetical d
Trump in China: A Case Study Of US Decline
Signs of decline can be dramatic or they can be small.
Abdallah A., a Nonperson Because of His Instagram Posts
Abdallah A. was born in Lebanon in 1990, but from the age of just two months he lived in Berlin with his Palestinian family. Germany is where A. grew up, went to school, worked, and waited to become a
Law & Political Economy, or Legal Theory & Capitalism?
What is this thing called capitalism? What, if anything, is the use of legal theory in understanding capitalist society? Is anything gained, or anything lost, if we replace the phrase “Law and Politic
What the Spirit debate is really about
Promoting competition or promoting a return to price regulation?
The case for clean energy abundance
It’s a good idea — and strikingly different from conventional environmentalism.
China Was Ready for the Age of Anarchy
Why turbulence will make Beijing more assertive.
The Illusion of Reciprocity
Trump’s self-defeating trade policy.
There’s no place like home
As the market stalls, the dream of homeownership is apparently still alive in Kansas. But because we can’t all live in Wichita, Congress is trying to get housing back on track.
Zohran Mamdani’s Budget Is a Step in the Right Direction
When New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday, the same day the New York City budget was unveiled, that she was providing $4 billion from the state to help close the city’s budget gap, the m
The Profit Motive Behind New Alzheimer’s Treatments
When Barbara Feuerstein, seventy-two, saw a Facebook ad offering a free blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, she jumped at the opportunity. The ad, placed by a research center, offered the test, recent
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Revisiting the Duopoly of Doom
The vertigo of individual insignificance and the pathological politics it produces
The Hostage Zelensky
Zelensky as Hostage, His Corruption and the Corruption of His Inner Circle, How He Was Snookered By the West, Tucker Interviews His Former Press Secretary, His Tighter Noose
Trump Wants Wall Street to Manage Your Retirement
Amid a multimillion-dollar lobbying and campaign-finance blitz by major financial asset managers, President Donald Trump has introduced a new plan pushing Americans to invest their retirement dollars
The Surveillance Economy Is Here. This Is How We Fight Back.
“In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make,” Ida Tarbell in her autobiography. “He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy and the commo
In Britain, Reform UK Defeats a Divided Left
Speaking to the press early on Friday morning, the chairman of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, David Bull, described the incoming results — delivering a sweeping victory for his party — as a “referendum on
Why Violence Persists in Nigeria
And how governance reform can break the cycle.
Legal Plunder: An Interview with Joe Soss and Joshua Page
Amna Akbar interviews Joe Soss and Joshua Page about how the criminal legal system extracts resources from the nation’s most oppressed communities and converts them into public and private revenues.
Why kids don’t go anywhere anymore
The technological and economic shifts behind helicopter parenting
Midweek Update #10: Little Changes In US-Iran, Potentially Lots With US-China
What Did The Bombing Campaign Accomplish?; Will China Save The US With Iran?
The Promise and Peril of U.S.-China Summitry
What Xi wants from Trump—and Trump might get from Xi.
America Has Lost Its Leverage Over China
How Trump and Xi could cement Beijing’s advantage for years to come.
Tuesday discussion post
Many discussion topics from Matt
The Left Without a Planet
A review of "The Global Left in a Multipolar World"
Zohran Mamdani Is Right to Condemn West Bank Land Sales
Last week, the ran an titled “Mamdani and the Antisemites.” The next day, an published in the conservative called the mayor’s behavior “shameful.” The day after that, Republican city council membe
The Democratic Candidate Closely Tied to Crypto and Big Tech
The Democratic establishment and the are intervening in a competitive Maryland Democratic to back a lobbyist who has been working for the tech giant Oracle while simultaneously serving as a state la
An ICE Surveillance Vendor Is Misleading the Public
After the reported last month that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcers awarded a defense vendor a to map out immigrants’ routines and real-time locations, the company, Edge Ops LLC, overh
How I lost my mind and bought an old half-restored nineteenth-century Thuringian villa
So, as many of you know, I did a crazy thing two years ago.
Taking a Good, Long Look Into Elon Musk and “Muskism”
Elon Musk needs no introduction. He is one of the leading capitalists of our time. Unlike many in tech, he gets down and dirty with the physical world (or rather, his employees do), building cars and
Big Tech’s Cross-Border Abuses Demand an International Response
On April 16, news broke that Meta had with its contractor in Kenya, Sama, ending a long-standing outsourcing arrangement it had for content moderation and artificial intelligence training. The decisi
Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”
Earlier this month, the published a mesmerizing if about the “Disney adult” — that distinct American subspecies of grown man or woman who is stuck in Peter Pan consumer mode, who trembles in delight
Shmoderation is the future
Who cares what you call an eclectic politician who appeals to the hodgepodge of views of heterodox voters?
China Is Squandering a Golden Opportunity
Why Beijing has failed to exploit Trump’s missteps,
Can Trump Get a New Nuclear Deal With Iran?
Washington has more demands—and Tehran has more leverage.
How America Can Coerce the Cartels
A smarter war on drugs begins with selective punishment.
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