Technofascists are moving fast to break democracy.
Silicon Valley moguls are creating regulation-free, crypto-based “network states.” And hoping to gobble up land near you.
Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they’re the right kind of women.
Elon Musk believes autism makes him superhuman. Just don’t call it that.
JACOBIN MAGAZINE (June 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Speculation’ – The house always wins…
“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.”
— Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867)
“Along with a lot of worthless nonsense, the bubbles of the 1920s gave us some durable housing, highways, and a radio broadcasting infrastructure.”
John Maynard Keynes warned that when real investment becomes the by-product of speculation, the result is often disaster. But it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 6.15.25 Issue features Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the ancestry of Pope Leo XIV; Nicholas Casey on how the MAGA right became obsessed with the Romanian presidential election; Irina Aleksander on how Jon Bernthal became Hollywood’s most dependable tough guy; David Marchese interviews Misty Copeland about her retirement; and more.
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability. By Parul Sehgal
The lifeblood of the internet is drying up. What the decline of search means for users, companies, and stocks.
“Going Public,” a show hosted by X, allows viewers to invest in start-ups. Two of the featured entrepreneurs have a checkered past, Barron’s found.
Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.
Joe Davis, the firm’s global chief economist, says rates could shoot up if the benefits of AI don’t outweigh the costs of the deficit in coming years.
People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke
By Noah Rothman
By Jim Geraghty
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Who won the war?’ We did, say the Americans, the British and the Russians. Each nation has a long history of claiming a unique role in defeating the Axis powers and diminishing the contribution of its allies. By Martin Ivens
The wartime alliances that could not survive the peace By Omer Bartov
Capers and wallpaper: a new film from Wes Anderson By Keith Miller
What Americans understand by greatness By Andrew Stark
A practical and literary guide to modern magic By Russell Williams
SCIENCE MAGAZINE: The latest issue features the last male northern white rhino socializes with a southern white rhino. Since his death in 2018, the northern subspecies is functionally extinct after decades of illegal killing for their horns. A study from the Greater Kruger region of South Africa offers some hope for remaining rhino species, proving that dehorning operations can achieve poaching reductions under certain circumstances and in conjunction with other interventions.
Area-based conservation is not sufficient to protect the ocean’s most highly mobile species
Sodium in the lithium anode promotes fast discharge in a solid-state battery
Tellurium nanowire networks could open up new avenues for artificial vision
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘American disorder’
Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire
Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating
Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs
It’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, came to visit our London offices along with Beto Marubo, an Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon.
From the other side of the world it’s easy to feel far removed from the activities of criminal gangs that threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous people and plunder its natural resources. But hearing Beto and Alessandra speak so powerfully about the impact of Dom and Bruno’s work reminded me why we need to stay focused on a region that defies easy scrutiny.
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