Physician incomes are extraordinarily high in the United States. A new NBER paper finds that U.S. physicians earn roughly two to four times as much as their counterparts in Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Why? Is it some feature particular to the US health care sector? Probably not. The same paper finds that physicians in […]

Agnes Pockels achievements in surface science have long been overshadowed by a popular and likely untrue story that she became interested in the subject while doing the dishes

Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation

Our national project of elite impunity

States are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who work in groups and operate across borders.

Jessica Burbank: A new world order is here. States (countries) are no longer the highest form of power globally. Power has shifted to wealthy individuals who

Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.

Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve

Online fraud and fraud fighting in a GenAI world

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How to rig an index to appease a billionaire

Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully present in the […]

Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.

AI targeting systems executed 900 strikes in 12 hours, a pace that previously took weeks. Maven, Palantir, and frontier models are operational in active conflict. The Pentagon just banned Anthropic and switched to OpenAI while strikes continue. The arms race has numbers now.

The filing didn’t look like a revolution. It looked like a standard corporate shuffle. On January 21, 2026, two new entities appeared in…

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Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?

I want to say something carefully, because I know it will be misread by people who are looking for a reason to misread it.

A statement of protest

Do not panic. Do not look away. Your calm attention is required, America.