If you earned about 5 percent every year loaning money to the United States government for a decade, that sounds like a pretty good deal, right? It’s near the highest…
President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization could have harsh consequences for countries around the world that rely on the agency to achieve important…
In one of the most popular sketches of the last few seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” Heidi Gardner lost it. Playing a sober-faced news anchor, she suddenly broke character, convulsing…
Yves here. KLG uses a 2023 book by Michael Lind, Hell to Pay, to focus on an issue that we’ve harped on since the inception of this website: that highly…
Yves here. The fact that this post depicts shareholder activism as the province of extortionist hedge funds reflects a depressing new normal. There have long been the type referred to…
It was the peak moment at one of the holiest gatherings on the Hindu calendar — the Maha Kumbh Mela, a 45-day celebration that brings hundreds of millions of the…
As the world scrambles to understand DeepSeek — its sophistication, its implications for the global A.I. arms race — one natural question has arisen: Given that it is made by…
Yves here. Wellie, Trump seems determined to restore the Gilded Age in the US, along with its lack of professionalized medicine and fundamental research, particularly in pharmaceuticals. If you want…
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…
Of the various left-leaning candidates in the New York City mayor’s race, Zellnor Myrie would seem to have unquestionable credentials as a champion of criminal justice reform. Mr. Myrie, a…