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How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?
Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include mor…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’
Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to d…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran
The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War
I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on I…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Who Should Control A.I.?
Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would decla…
7 months ago
Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy
Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart. On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran tha…
7 months ago
Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union
President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he d…
7 months, 1 week ago
How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside Trump’s ‘Royal Court’
It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power
At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and te…
7 months, 3 weeks ago