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

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 ...

Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. 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 question isn’t whether the mainstream economic consensus on inflation is right or wrong. It’s clearly wrong. The question ...

Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to ...

Hollywood’s unions fight for tax credits and jobs but not for the movies themselves. That has to change. Unions can take up ...

A new survey of 6,100 voters finds that persuadable voters respond to plain talk about rent, groceries, and corruption — and ...

Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project.

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