Electricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this ...

Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...

Molly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and ...

Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse ...

When AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the ...

The protest movement by young people in India has challenged the culture of fear that protects Narendra Modi’s Hindutva government. They are carving out the space for a future without Modi and his ...

US leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense ...

Talk of defending civilizational values looms large in the thinking of Vladimir Putin and his allies. Russia’s elites both ...

The primacy of the dollar is considered one of the pillars of American might, conferring exorbitant financial privileges and ...

At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly ...

Georgy Birger is a journalist, currently working on the Playing Civilization project, a book and a blog that uncovers ...

The question isn’t whether the mainstream economic consensus on inflation is right or wrong. It’s clearly wrong. The question ...