As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and ...

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

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Ten years after she was forced to leave her friends and family, the Turkish journalist feels the importance of home more ...

A large number of Norwegian Jews feel forced to hide their Jewish identity, a new report by Norway’s Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-Center) has revealed. The report is based on ...

Barney Frank might not draw a connection between his coming out as gay nearly four decades ago and his coming out against left-wing dogmatism in the Democratic Party today. But the parallel is ...

Catholic social teaching, the tradition of reflection on social and economic life from modern popes, is optimistic about human life in a way that is usually quite inspiring. So I paid attention during ...

For at least two years, Trump had been promising to “get transgender out” of schools, women’s sports, and the military. “It will be the official policy of the United States government that there are ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For at least two years, Trump had been promising to “get transgender out” of schools, ...

We at Planet Money often scan new economic research for interesting ideas or evidence about the economy or, more broadly, the world around us. Sometimes this research informs our podcasts. Sometimes ...

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