Opinion | Fast Times at West Wing High
When I drove around Silicon Valley in 2017, talking to tech gods for a magazine piece, trying to figure out if A.I. would be friend or foe, Washington barely seemed…
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World | naked capitalism
Yves here. Michael Hudson describes how if Trump delivers on his trade and immigration threats (which are also economic threats) to Mexico, Mexico will either suffer a severe economic crisis…
President Trump Promises to Make government Efficient − and He’ll Run Into the Same Roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, Among Others | naked capitalism
Yves here. Of course, one looming question regarding efficiency is efficient for whom? If we look at a private sector example, lousy insurance claims processing is efficient by lowering costs…
Israel Welcomes the Return of the Women Who Warned of a Raid From Gaza
The Israeli Army lookouts were monitoring Hamas in Gaza across a security fence from a base in southern Israel. As it turned out, Hamas was also watching them. The four…
Here’s What Trump Ordered in First Week, on Immigration, DEI and More
President Trump’s blunt message after a whirlwind week of executive orders and presidential proclamations may boil down to this: Take me at my word. During four years in political exile…
Opinion | AI Can Work for Us
I recently learned of a new way people are using artificial intelligence. “Based on everything you know about me,” they ask ChatGPT, “draw a picture of what you think my…
Ladies and Gentlemen, 38 Key Musical Moments on ‘S.N.L.’
Feb. 14, 1981 Funky 4 + 1 Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first hip-hop group to perform…
Gunfire and Bandits Make School an Impossible Dream for Haitian Children
The last time Faida Pierre, 10, went to school, her mother found her stranded on the roof of the school’s building, barefoot and crying, while a gang stormed the surrounding…
Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in…
How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell
And from the more westerly of the two docks, it was possible to stare directly at the smaller, even more westerly, even more private dock reserved for the exclusive use…