President Donald Trump is attempting to play the role of the grand architect, and he is doing so with the same appetite for systemic overhaul that defined the Post-World War II Settlement.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The blood on the floors of a downtown Minneapolis high-rise doesn’t care about the zip code, but the people who let it get there certainly do.
By Maya Ellison ·
When a trade dispute reaches the point where national sovereignty is subject to social media mockery, it ceases to be an economic negotiation and becomes, quite simply, theatre.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The whole spectacle in Asheville, North Carolina, feels less like a global economic summit and more like a highly choreographed performance designed to obscure who’s paying for…
By Imani Sutton ·
The immediate reaction to the flares of hostilities in the Gulf—the strikes on Larak Island, the retaliatory missiles toward Jordan and the UAE, the dubious reports of…
By Klaus Berger ·
The language used—"historic," "biggest oil deal in world history"—is designed to make you feel small, like a child who just witnessed the opening of a massive, shiny toy store. It is not.
By Imani Sutton ·
You think scarcity is natural? You think inflation is just bad management? Think again.
By Imani Sutton ·
You learn early in life that nothing is ever free. You can’t just walk into the co-op and ask for a bushel of corn without paying for it—and if you don't have the cash, you don't get the grain.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The moment a great power decides that global resources are merely commodities to be negotiated away from the sovereign state, it ceases to be diplomacy and becomes simple extraction.
By Emilio Quesada ·
There is a certain kind of exhaustion that comes from accumulating success.
By Alma Cordero ·
The moment Washington begins to talk about “stakes” in another sovereign nation’s oil fields, you know what it means: they are not talking about energy security; they are talking about ownership.
By Alma Cordero ·
The news—the kind that surfaces in fragments across multiple wire services—is always a reminder of where power truly resides: not with the people, but with those who hold the…
By Sophie Naimi ·
The moment you realize that a powerful man can sign an executive order to change the name of a shared lake—to rename Lake Ontario, for God's sake, to ‘Lake America’—you understand…
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The moment you realize that your daily life—the toilet paper in your bathroom, the cheese on your charcuterie board—is now a geopolitical bargaining chip, you know where power truly resides.
By Imani Sutton ·
We are accustomed to viewing massive legal settlements as victories—a decisive moment where the law finally catches up with technology.
By Elena Rossi ·
The language used by Donald Trump and his allies is designed to sound grand, like some kind of economic shield protecting the American worker.
By Josie Calloway ·