Don’t Overestimate America and China’s Importance

Why America Keeps Choking on Wildfire Smoke

Texas Tech's Vague Restrictions Show You Don't Have To Ban Speech To Silence It

Working Class Hero

What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle

Open Thread

Perceptions

Colombia’s Rightward Turn

Economists are coming around to the idea that AI really is killing jobs

Contradictions of Socialist Prison Abolitionism

Is the War in Iran Spiraling Out of Control?

An Alternative History for America at 250

On the Importance of First Principles

America Has a Huge Trade Surplus With Brazil. Trump Just Put 25 Percent Tariffs on Brazilian Goods Anyway.

In America, Almost Anyone Can Be a Millionaire

Justice Kagan Says Don't Call It the "Shadow Docket"

Dopamine TV: How China’s short dramas are redefining entertainment

You Don’t Need to Vote for Socialists to Get Universal Health Care

Subsidies Do Not Explain China’s Competitiveness

AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”