On Monday, August 4, President Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), the entity that, for all intents and purposes, governs Puerto Rico. The...
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When Harvard University established its graduate business school in 1908, one college alumnus registered his disapproval in the form of a cheeky little poem: Fair Harvard! I hear that you’ve been such a fool As...
Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary is no doubt the shot of adrenaline that democratic socialism needs right now. But while his win shocked most of the nation, democratic socialists...
On a recent afternoon in Baghdad, I drove across the Republic Bridge to an emporium on the eastern bank of the Tigris. A new Iraqi film that recently screened at Festival de Cannes is finally...
A Texas nurse switched to a better-paying job at a nearby hospital only to wind up with debt collectors at her door demanding she pay her former employer back for a loan she didn’t know she...
In an escalation that shocked even seasoned observers of Southeast Asian politics, Thailand and Cambodia went to war last month. Dozens were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced. The violence ranged from infantry firefights to artillery...
Since April 2, or “Liberation Day,” as the White House now calls it, Donald Trump has invoked emergency legal powers to unilaterally impose tariffs on major exporters to the United States, bypassing Congress entirely. His...
The Securities and Exchange Commission, overseen by crypto millionaire Paul Atkins, just agreed to drop its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange Ripple after Biden-era regulators sued the firm for alleged securities fraud. Ripple, which will...
In the Americas, mosquitoes played an especially deadly role during the European conquest, spreading diseases that aided in the genocide of indigenous people throughout the continent, and they continue to kill record numbers of people...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for New York’s mayoral election set off a panic in the city’s financial services industry. Wall Street players have been threatening to relocate to Texas or Florida and...
India’s central government views the state of Kerala with suspicion and disdain. Politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) often present it as an internal, fifth-columnist enemy. Kerala has for decades...
Sweden long rejected militarism, even offering government funding to peace movements. Yet since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the political mood has changed abruptly, with a witch hunt launched against activists who oppose the country’s embrace...
