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April 9, 2026
The myth of the downwardly mobile college graduate
The heyday of the “high-skill” worker is ending. As corporations find new ways to replace labor with machines, more and more professionals are seeing their vaunted credentials lose their value. Man...
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April 8, 2026
The war is on hold. But the economy is still in danger.
For months, America’s war with Iran has been slowly suffocating the global economy. In March, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf’s oil reserves to g...
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March 28, 2026
Courts are finally punishing Big Tech for harming kids. Here’s the catch.
This week, juries in California and New Mexico dealt a pair of landmark verdicts against America’s social media giants. In Los Angeles, jurors awarded $6 million to a young woman who alleged that ...
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March 25, 2026
Is Trumpism dead?
When Donald Trump won the 2016 Republican primary, he didn’t just defeat a field of rivals; he toppled a dynasty. For nearly three decades, the Bush family and its vassals lorded over red America....
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March 23, 2026
AI could reverse social media’s worst consequence
For more than four decades, technological progress has been undermining expert authority, democratizing public debate, and steering individuals toward ever-more bespoke conceptions of reality. In t...
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March 17, 2026
The “populist” crusade to make the suburbs more segregated and expensive
To its fiercest critics, “populism” is a politics of mindless resentment: The populist’s animating ambition is not to help people in general — or the downtrodden in particular — so much as to hurt ...
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March 16, 2026
The Democrats are about to make a trillion-dollar mistake
A bold new idea is taking the Democrats by storm: massive middle-class tax cuts. Last week, two of the party’s rumored 2028 candidates — Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Cory Booker — unveiled plans to ...
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March 11, 2026
The global oil crisis is even worse than it looks
The oil market’s worst nightmare just came true. For decades, energy traders have feared that a war might one day close the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf’s oil ...
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March 5, 2026
4 reasons why AI (probably) won’t take your job
AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death...
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March 4, 2026
The AI industry’s civil war
America’s AI industry isn’t just divided by competing interests, but also by conflicting worldviews. In Silicon Valley, opinion about how artificial intelligence should be developed and used — and ...
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March 2, 2026
Americans will pay for Trump’s war in Iran
The United States and Israel launched a war against Iran Friday night, killing that nation’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with many other Iranian officials, and (reportedly) more t...
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February 25, 2026
Why Wall Street panicked over a sci-fi blog post
Last year, investors worried that AI would crash the economy by making too little money. Now, they fear it will do so by making too much. On Sunday, a little-known financial analysis firm called Ci...
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February 20, 2026
The Supreme Court’s tariff decision could save you $1,000
The Supreme Court just upended President Donald Trump’s trade war. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled on Friday that the bulk of Trump’s tariffs were unconstitutionally enacted. Trump had rested ...
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February 18, 2026
Why voters hate Trump’s (pretty decent) economy
President Donald Trump spent much of the past year engineering price increases, financial panics, and trade wars. Nonetheless, despite his best efforts, he is presiding over a pretty good economy. ...
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February 13, 2026
Trump discovers that the road to autocracy is lined with potholes
A little over a year into his second presidency, President Donald Trump has yet to turn America into a pure, uncut authoritarian nightmare — but not for lack of trying. Back in January 2025, if you...
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February 11, 2026
AI could transform the economy by year’s end
It’s February 2020 again. An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy, politics, and social lives. Yet most people are still ...
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February 9, 2026
Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail.
Ever since the United States entrusted its presidency to a would-be insurrectionist in January 2025, many Americans have feared for the integrity of their nation’s future elections. And not without...
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January 27, 2026
The Trump administration is admitting it lied about Alex Pretti
A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both. Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the ...
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January 23, 2026
You don’t need to be a liberal to oppose Trump’s ICE
America’s immigration debate has often centered on the morality of mass deportation. Progressives have argued that exiling law-abiding families is inherently wrong — no matter their immigration sta...
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January 23, 2026
Trump’s war on Wall Street landlords could raise your rent
Wall Street is “gobbling up” America’s homes. Firms with names like BlackRock (or Blackstone or SablePebble) are shouldering their way into every suburban open house and offering 50 percent above a...
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January 20, 2026
A very simple explanation for why politics is broken
In today’s America, the less money a white voter has, the more likely they are to support Donald Trump. Whites in the bottom 10 percent of America’s income distribution broke for the GOP nominee in...
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January 14, 2026
The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists
Progressives have long argued that Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is a fundamentally fascistic enterprise. In their telling, the president’s goal is not merely to enforce America’s borders but t...
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January 12, 2026
The fiction at the heart of America’s political divide
America’s most impassioned Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much. Ask the inhabitants of Bluesky and Truth Social whether a fetus is a person, or undocumented immigrants are a scourge, or t...
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