Politics

Whoever is elected New York City mayor in November, Zohran Mamdani’s impressive win this week in the Democratic mayoral primary marks a breaking point in the party, the city and US society as a whole.  read more »

As recent events in Iran have so aptly demonstrated, technological progress married to industrial might produces the most tangible form of power.  read more »

I’m on a panel about this tonight.

A unicorn is a privately owned startup company worth more than $1 billion.  read more »

Portland, Oregon is suffering from the “worst housing crisis outlook” in the country  read more »

The deepening split between Elon Musk and the Trump administration speaks to broader divisions within an increasingly shell-shocked GOP. Musk, who left the White House only last week, has since denounced Donald Trump’s hodgepodge budget bill – the so-called Big Beautiful Bill – as a ‘disgusting abomination’, as it will add almost $4 trillion to the federal deficit.  read more »

Rising empires require collaborators to expand their influence and win over adversaries. In this respect, China and other anti-Western regimes increasingly count on green activists, investors, and media to advance their interests.  read more »

US president Donald Trump has disrupted the nature of class politics. In a reversal of long-standing allegiances, working-class Americans – including many minorities – have shifted towards the MAGA right. Meanwhile, the well-educated, the corporate elites and the government-dependent have generally veered leftwards.  read more »

Recent revelations that the University of California received massive donations from organisations linked to China’s Communist Party — including a $220 million investment in Berkeley’s joint research project with Tsinghua University — may have elicited a harsh reaction  read more »

In American politics, the main beneficiaries of “dark money” have in recent years tended to be Democrats.  read more »

It’s once more springtime for America doomers, those who believe the United States will soon lose its global top-dog status.  read more »