Opinion | Debbie Dingell: How to Stand Up to Trump
“Rot in hell.” Those words were part of Donald Trump’s Christmas Day message, spewed at his political enemies. The next day, when I was asked during a CNN interview about…
Opinion | This Was a Terrible Year, and Also Maybe the Best One Yet for Humanity
As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be resuming. A man charged with 91 felonies is leading in…
Millions of flowers make up this New Year’s Day parade
Thousands of volunteers are preparing floats for the annual New Year’s Day Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. The floats in the parade are decorated entirely with material from fresh or…
Michael Hudson: Neoliberalism, Industrial Capitalism, and the Rise of Debt | naked capitalism
Yves here. A year-end treat from Michael Hudson, via Robinson’s Podcast” a meaty historical discussion of the Chicago School, of compound interest dynamics, classical economics and rentierism, and industrial versus…
Words of Wisdom
There’s such fanfare about the end of the year and the beginning of a new one, but the difference is only a day. I find myself thinking about this a…
Two States Ruled Trump Off the Ballot. Will It Help or Hurt Him?
As the top elections official in Washington State, Steve Hobbs says he is troubled by the threat former President Donald J. Trump poses to democracy and fears the prospect of…
Italy’s Raucous Holiday Classics Are Not Your Standard Hallmark Movies
On a recent evening inside the Hotel de la Poste, an alpine hotel in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy’s most ski-and-be-seen winter destination, a boisterous party celebrated the birth of a cinematic…
Mutiny Erupts in a Michigan G.O.P. Overtaken by Chaos
The mutiny took hold on Mackinac Island. The Michigan Republican Party’s revered two-day policy and politics gathering, the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, was an utter mess. Attendance had plummeted. Top-tier…
Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law
The boom in artificial intelligence tools that draw on troves of content from across the internet has begun to test the bounds of copyright law. Authors and a leading photo…
An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory
At a reception for OpenAI’s first developer conference in San Francisco last month, a crowd mingled, wine in hand, as withering criticism of art created with artificial intelligence flashed on…