By Lee Hepner Popular depictions of cartels evoke secretive, dangerous—shamelessly glamorized—drug cartels. Or corporate whistleblowers being trailed, wiretapped, and threatened by anonymous thugs with chiseled jaws and tinted windows. Of course, there are the fat…
By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…
Antimony and the existential fragility of American military power By Shanaka Anslem Perera I. The confession hidden in plain sight Buried in paragraph 47 of the Defense Logistics Agency’s September 2025 contract announcement was a…
Commentary by John Miller The U.S. economy continues to grow, at least for now. But job creation has come to a near halt. That got the attention of Federal Reserve Board chair Jerome Powell. In…
California pilot program offers new blueprint for workforce development By David Weil and Pronita Gupta For over a decade, academics and progressive policymakers have been fretting about the “future of work” and the “gigification” of…
By Joseph Cox A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring…
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy By Servaas Storm OpenAI’s Altman boasted that AGI can “discover new science,” because “I think we’ve cracked reasoning in the models,” adding that “we’ve a long way to…
By Patricia Gestoso The hype around idyllic tech workplaces that originated in Silicon Valley with tales of great pay, free food and Ping-Pong tables reaches a whole new level when we talk about artificial intelligence…
JD Vance A VERY Wealthy Man By Dean Blundell America’s farm economy runs on thin margins and long memories. You plant in hope, you harvest in reality, and you live in the spread between input…
Against China By Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States towards China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US media outlets and politicians have…