Major lobbying firms are raking in millions while playing both sides of the lobbying debate on California’s PFAS regulation. Also known as “forever chemicals,” these extremely persistent human-made chemicals appear in clothing, cleaning products, cookware,...
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Here are some findings from the last two days of the New York Times: “Zohran Mamdani has opened a commanding lead in the race for mayor of New York City, buoyed by support for his...
A new study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that nearly half of US federal judges attended crash courses in economics at the conservative-leaning Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges between 1976 and 1999...
As the fall semester ramps up, the nation’s college students are preparing to make a dreaded purchase: course textbooks, which can cost students hundreds of dollars per year. For years, textbook prices have been rising many...
Charlie Kirk has never received a warm welcome in the pages of this magazine. It doesn’t matter now. The assassination of Kirk is a tragedy. Morally, it is unjustifiable. Politically, it is cause for serious...
In the struggle against Donald Trump’s barbarism, how do we assess New York governor Kathy Hochul? The governor has engaged in some acts of opposition that make many New Yorkers proud. Hochul stood up for...
Our encounters with the direct labor of others, not to be confused with the labor embedded in the phone we swipe or the strawberry we eat, could in principle be mapped in starburst networks, thick...
Seth Harp Things are in flux now like never before. It’s hard to predict. In the first two years of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, one thing that became clear is that the Israel Defense Forces...
It’s been a long time since the United States had a “normal” recession. COVID-19 brought on a brief, sharp downturn in early 2020, but it was not a “normal” one of the sort that capitalism...
When Chilean troops encircled La Moneda Palace in central Santiago on September 11, 1973, to overthrow the elected president, José Antonio Kast was just seven years old. He was too young to fully grasp what...
At the end of World War II, Church House in Westminster, London, was the site of a War Crimes Commission set up by the United Nations. In the heart of the British capital, Allied diplomats...
Dan Wang I spent six years living in China from 2017 to 2023 and the major events of that time included [Donald] Trump’s first trade war, Xi Jinping’s darkening political ambitions, and Zero COVID, which...
