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Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump

Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump The Fed chair has saved Trump from his worst instincts but failed to do so for Biden. By Roger Lowenstein, The Atlantic  When historians eventually study whom Donald Trump treated worse—his enemies or his friends and loyal servants—the sad case of Jerome...
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How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption

How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption This new source of money is giving the administration unprecedented new powers. By Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic  Brandon LaRoque kept his...

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Before Venezuela’s oil, there were Guatemala’s bananas

Before Venezuela’s oil, there were Guatemala’s bananas By Aaron Coy Moulton, Stephen F. Austin State University In the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that seized Venezuelan...

What next for Iran as Trump pulls back?

What next for Iran as Trump pulls back? By Jonathan Este, The Conversation   For anyone who has watched Iranians take to the streets before, as they have...

Why the Trump administration is holding millions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales in a Qatari bank

Why the Trump administration is holding millions of dollars from Venezuelan oil sales in a Qatari bank By Chris Isidore and Adam Cancryn, CNN Hundreds of...

Venezuela Is Just the Start: Greenland Tensions, China’s Aggression, the Ukraine War

Venezuela Is Just the Start: Greenland Tensions, China's Aggression, the Ukraine War By IRONCLAD and Zeihan on Geopolitics Andy Stumpf speaks with Peter Zeihan about unrest...

Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up

Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up The raid on a Washington Post reporter’s home is deeply troubling. By Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic When the government stomps on some once-inviolable...

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy By Konstantin Zhukov, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies   The FBI search...

Trump imposes 25% tariff on some semiconductors, including Nvidia chips

Trump imposes 25% tariff on some semiconductors, including Nvidia chips By Courtenay Brown and Maria Curi, Axios    President Trump said on Wednesday that he would impose...

Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe

Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe His irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to global conflict. By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic  Donald Trump has a lot of odd...

Nvidia CEO says China on track “to win the AI race”

Nvidia CEO says China on track "to win the AI race" By Jeffrey Cane, Axios    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sounded his loudest alarm about the U.S....

Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve risk fuelling US inflation and ending dollar dominance

Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve risk fuelling US inflation and ending dollar dominance By Emre Tarim, Lancaster University   US president Donald Trump’s attacks on the...

Venezuela’s End: Next on the Chopping Block

Venezuela’s End: Next on the Chopping Block By Peter Zeihan With renewed American activism in the Western Hemisphere, Venezuela has become just the first to get...

Why unlocking Venezuelan oil won’t mean much for US energy prices

Why unlocking Venezuelan oil won’t mean much for US energy prices By Amy Myers Jaffe, New York University; Tufts University   In the wake of U.S. forces’...

The Candor of Jerome Powell

The Candor of Jerome Powell After months of stoicism, the Fed chair is taking a stand against Trump. By Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic Jerome Powell isn’t known for...

Trump’s Venezuelan oil adventure is coming apart at the seams

Trump’s Venezuelan oil adventure is coming apart at the seams By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times    Trump thinks the spigots will soon start flowing with Venezuela’s oil....

Venezuela’s End: The Oil Question

Venezuela’s End: The Oil Question By Peter Zeihan Venezuela only has one realistic path forward: Oil. That doesn’t mean it’s a sure thing, though. So, let’s lay...

Saudi-UAE bust-up over Yemen was only a matter of time − and reflects wider rift over vision for the region

Saudi-UAE bust-up over Yemen was only a matter of time − and reflects wider rift over vision for the region By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University Years...

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures fall as markets react to DOJ investigation into Powell

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures fall as markets react to DOJ investigation into Powell By Rian Howlett, Yahoo Finance    US stock futures dropped...

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”

“We’re Too Close to the Debris” By Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica.org  When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the...

Peter Thiel’s New Model Army

Peter Thiel's New Model Army The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster Courtesy of Carole Cadwalladr    A note on who I am and...

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets "They think there will be no punishment for all this fraud."   By Joe Wilkins,...

“We’re Too Close to the Debris”

“We’re Too Close to the Debris” By Heather Vogell and Agnel Philip, graphics by Lucas Waldron, ProPublica.org  When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the...

Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extract

Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extract By Paul Bierman, University of Vermont Since Donald Trump...

RFK Jr. guts the US childhood vaccine schedule despite its decades-long safety record

RFK Jr. guts the US childhood vaccine schedule despite its decades-long safety record By Jake Scott, Stanford University The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood...

2026 May Be The Year Coral Reefs Around The World Finally Collapse

Tropical coral reefs cover less than 1% of the seafloor, yet support 25% of all marine species. They are also incredibly vulnerable. Over the past …

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan

World’s Largest Nuclear Plant Coming Back Online in Japan By Peter Zeihan Japan is restarting the world’s largest nuclear power plant, after a 15-year shutdown following the...

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses

West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defenses By Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across...

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine

The AI Energy Economy — Part 3: Where the Grid Meets the Machine The Connective and Last-Meter Layers of AI Electrification Part 2 of this series...

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did By Debbie Cenziper and Megan Rose, ProPublica   It’s a fundamental tenet of health care in...