Few thinkers have had as profound an impact on the world as Karl Marx. Despite the century and a half since his death, his ideas remain highly relevant. A topic that often surfaces when discussing Marx’s seminal economic work — Capital — is the so-called ‘transformation problem.’ An online debate has recently emerged regarding how […]
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The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the operation’s planning. After the bloodshed subsided, Richard Holbrooke, a top US diplomat, assured him: “We said publicly… that we were concerned, but privately, you knew what we wanted.” August 4, 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Storm. Little known outside the former Yugoslavia, the military campaign unleashed a genocidal cataclysm that violently expelled Croatia’s entire Serb population. […]
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Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.
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Several months ago, in the lead-up to the most recent Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, I wondered out loud whether we should choose the uncertain wish for hope and joy or the very real promise of bleak despair. These were the options that were being presented to us, and the choice seemed pretty clear. I know I don’t need to tell you which alternative won out, but I will anyway. It wasn’t hope and joy.
So here we are today, living in a landscape carved from bleak despair, bleaker than most people anticipated. And we’re navigating through a darkness that descended on us with a startling speed, outperforming nearly everyone’s—even the most cynical—predictions. Leading some people to cry, “We did not think things would be like this!” Or “How is this happening?” While others declare, “I didn’t vote for this!”
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
Tesla’s board of directors has capitulated to CEO Elon Musk with a $29 billion stock package after he threatened to exit the company if he wasn’t paid more.
Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.
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Exclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and 'weak' safeguards
Whistleblower Sergei Cristo argues that the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights serves to protect Kremlin meddling
When you look at AI, right now, it has one major use case that people are really willing to pay for: coding. That means Cursor and, to a lesser extent, Replit. Let’s take Cursor as an example: it is built on top of other companys AI. This is a problem, because Cursor doesn’t have a […]
More daycare options at a variety of price points, all of them unaffordable.
A super accessible subway station with an elevator that will get you all the way down to the mezzanine. The tracks are just two flights of stairs below that.
Playgrounds that are so packed you’ll wait in the bathroom line for forty-five minutes. That’s how much kids love our jungle gyms. Please bring your own toilet paper.
Restaurants with kid-friendly meals that considerately still charge adult prices, so you get both experiences. Bet you’ve never tried twenty-four-dollar buttered noodles before.
Completely adequate public schools. As in, most of the kids are vaccinated.
Enough minivans with “honors student” bumper stickers that you can be confident that Harvard recruiters will visit every fall. Saves you a trip. Your child is two, but still.
A booming waiting room at the pediatrician’s office. This is a great way for your child to make friends and also get the flu. Immunity Power!
All the city’s best retail stores: Macy’s, H&M, Target, Ann Taylor. Uniqlo, another Target.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (1911) Nikolai Kondratiev, The Major Economic Cycles (1925) Gunnar Myrdal, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (1930) John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory (1936) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944) Paul […]
An economic theory that does not go beyond proving theorems and conditional ‘if-then’ statements — and does not make assertions and put forward hypotheses about real-world individuals and institutions — is of little consequence for anyone wanting to use theories to better understand, explain or predict real-world phenomena. Building theories and models on patently ridiculous […]
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Self-control, grit, growth mindset – trendy skills won’t transform children’s lives, but more meaningful interventions can
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Pay talks are set to resume after a five-day walkout ended last Wednesday. Maira Rana does the math in defence of the strike
Last Friday (August 1, 2025), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published their latest – Employment Situation Summary – for July 2025. What followed was somewhat extraordinary. The data and the revisions to the previous two months data releases (which is standard practice) showed that the US labour market is in decline. It starkly runs…
President Trump could bail out private equity companies — by letting them loot your retirement plan.
