Editorial
Elon Musk’s AfD Kingmaking is Distributed Dictatorship in Action
The world’s richest man hosted AfD leader Alice Weidel in a live Twitter Spaces discussion on Thursday, where he praised her party’s nationalist agenda and
Alito, Trump and the Death of Plausible Deniability
According to the New York Times, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke directly with Donald Trump about a purported “job reference” just before Trump’s lawyers
TikTok and the New Mercantilism
On January 19th, TikTok faces a potential ban in the United States unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the platform. The stakes extend far
What Bluesky’s $700m Valuation Really Means
Bluesky, the social media platform that emerged from Twitter’s internal incubator, is raising a new round of funding led by Bain Capital Ventures at a
Trumpist Economics Are Coming Home to Roost
For months, equity markets indulged a mass delusion: that a second Trump term would combine the market-friendly aspects of his first term (deregulation, tax cuts)
Britain Just Banned Deepfake Porn. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Britain just announced it will criminalize the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfakes. The law, introduced as part of the government’s Crime and Policing
When Climate Change Meets Climate Denial
January wildfires in Los Angeles feel like something out of a heavy-handed climate change allegory. As Trump prepares to take office promising to dismantle climate
America’s Next Top Territory: The Reality-TVification of International Relations
Trump isn’t pursuing territorial expansion – he’s producing the world’s most expensive reality show. This isn’t a hypothesis or speculation. It’s simply what happens when
The Free Speech Company That Can’t Handle Speech
Meta’s recent announcement about “getting back to our roots around free expression” coincided perfectly with their HR team deleting internal employee criticism of new board
