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