Intercept staffers break down the latest election news and the front groups fueling the midterms.
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Center Forward sent Stevens — and her mom — to a banking and crypto conference. Now it's spending millions on ads in Michigan.
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Inflation peaked back in June 2022, only three months after the Fed started hiking interest rates. At that time, the Fed’s policy rate had risen just 75 basis points, and no one knew how much higher it might go. In fact, we have no evidence that monetary policy had any significant effect on the course taken by prices — […]
As the DNC blamed the author for the report’s shortcomings, a source who participated in the research said the author seemed to grasp that Gaza "clearly" hurt Harris.
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A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence.
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The Lever uncovered an ICE contractor’s phantom clients, dubious claims, and disappearing executives. Now Congress is stepping in.
Buried in Congress’s massive transportation bill is a provision pushed by the autonomous trucking industry to override state safety rules for driverless commercial vehicles.
Prem Munday Agentic commerce, where artificial intelligence (AI) systems act on behalf of users to find products, negotiate purchases, and execute payments, is developing rapidly. This creates shared responsibility: developers must build legally sound systems, while regulators and infrastructure operators must consider how existing frameworks apply and where new approaches may be needed. The Bank … Continue reading Agentic commerce and the battleground for new payments infrastructure
It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people
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Researchers analysed how much romantic partners agree about their personal characteristics – and where they agree most
- by Matt Huston
The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs
- by Alan Manning
The levying of taxes concerns not just one principle but the principle underlying the authority of the national state. This right to levy taxes is linked to the supervision of economic activities within a certain territory, but it is becoming an ever more fictitious basis as the scope increases for operations at the level of […]
A “party within the party” is forcing its corporate-aligned agenda on voters — and spending millions to crush populist Democrats in districts that will likely decide control of Congress.
Nades Raviraj and Danny Walker Big and uncertain shocks have pushed UK inflation above the 2% inflation target over the past few years. How did financial markets view the Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC’s) monetary policy during this unprecedented period? We show that markets have come to perceive the MPC’s policy stance as increasingly dependent on … Continue reading Financial markets point to very data-dependent monetary policy
In the first article in this series we discussed freedom under capitalism. The conclusion was simple: capitalist freedom for the vast majority of the population means the right to choose your master, your job, if you can find one. Once you have a master, you do what they say for most of the day, for […]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data today (May 21, 2026) – Labour Force, Australia – for April 2026 – which showed that the labour market deteriorated significantly in April. All the main indicators were moving in negative directions – employment growth fell, participation fell, unemployment increased, the employment-population ratio…
One my betes noires has been in the news lately. Jonathan Haidt has been annoying me since at least 2012, when I was critical of his bothsidesism on the culture wars. At the time, he was a concern troll, posing as a liberal worried about other liberals who were, he claimed, misunderstanding Republicans. Whereas liberals […]