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Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida

No.392 — We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate ⊗ Our emerging planetary nervous system ⊗ A handbook for strategic foresight ⊗ A Cookie for Dario? ⊗ This city turned its rooftops into a climate shield ⊗ “Viking” was a job description

The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.

I built a machine learning model to find London's divide and you can enter your postcode to see which side you're on. We've been blaming the wrong people for it.

Some people long for bold, visionary leaders. Others value technocratic expertise. But there’s a third alternative.

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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.