How 300 billionaires poured $3 billion into the 2024 elections
A tiny fraction of donors supplied nearly one-fifth of all federal campaign spending as billionaire influence surged to unprecedented levels.
After loneliness
Left for dead in Donald Trump's America; could communal life stir?
Trump’s Iran war costs $1 billion a day while hospitals close and healthcare disappears
Critics warn the administration’s military campaign could fund food aid and healthcare for millions of Americans already struggling with rising prices.
Despite twisted hype about “so much winning,” America staggers, the self-inflicted, breakthrough icon of...
The only yellow brick road towards more affluence for the under-trained or geographically-limited is to match skills with today’s employment demands or pull up stakes and move to less benighted areas.
US-Israel strikes on Iranian oil depots trigger environmental disaster and historic oil shock
Bombing of energy infrastructure in Tehran sparks toxic rainfall warnings, record crude price surge, and accusations of war crimes as fires and smoke engulf Iran’s capital.
The brave new war machine
How a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.
This is what accountability looks like
Whether it's the refusal to release all the Epstein files, the failure to punish Trump for his anti-democratic actions, or the launching of the war in Iran, the United States is becoming as unaccountable as Russia under Putin.
Trump economy loses 92,000 jobs in February as economists warn labor market weakness is...
New Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows unemployment rising and hiring slowing across major industries as economists warn that policy uncertainty, tariffs, and economic shocks are weighing on the labor market.
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Welcome to the ‘gray zone’—home to nefarious international acts that fall short of outright conflict
Policy and military communities began using the term “gray zone” in the early 2010s to describe environments in which states pursue an advantage against a rival without crossing a line that would justify the use of overt force in response.