In Kashmir, a chaos of trade, smuggling, and surveillance shapes the “cold peace” between India and Pakistan
The debt, the DOGE, and the crisis of competence in an era of rising “national conservatism”
How European venture capital tried to make grocery delivery apps happen—and failed
History is full of ethnically divided armies. A recent study quantifies their disastrous track record.
In Bulgaria, Sofia Pride is under siege from domestic reactionaries and DOGE cuts alike – but they’re fighting back
The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.
The economy as seen through its physical processes and social interactions
Far-right intellectuals love to steal left-wing economic ideas. But what’s their real agenda?
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