After their 2024 defeat, Democrats blamed racism, sexism, disinformation, and the voters themselves. What they did not do, with very few exceptions, was ask why a party that once championed the working class now loses majorities among Americans earning under $50,000 a year.
News & Analysis US Domestic PoliticsThe U.S. approved the sale of 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the largest AI hardware deal ever struck with the Middle East. Behind the numbers lies a geopolitical realignment that trades Chinese tech ties for American silicon and reshapes who gets to build frontier AI.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil is not just fuel. Between 10% and 20% of every barrel becomes the raw material for plastics, fertilizers, medicines, and thousands of other products. With Brent crude up 80% since the Hormuz crisis began, the price of modern life is being rewritten far beyond the gas pump.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisFrom "thoughts and prayers" to rage-tweeting to "protecting the children," humans have perfected the art of looking helpful without actually helping. Evolutionary biology and social psychology explain why.
News & Analysis Psychology & BehaviorAI coding tools generate code faster than anyone can understand it, creating a growing gap between what exists in the system and what any human actually knows. When that gap gets wide enough, a single bad AI update could permanently break products no one can fix by hand.
Artificial Intelligence News & AnalysisTwenty-two days in, at least 20 countries are militarily involved, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is up nearly 50 percent, and 85 nations are feeling the pain at the pump. But by every official definition, this is not a world war. Here is what it actually is.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisIran's strikes on Gulf states follow a brutal strategic logic: if your neighbor hosts the bases used to bomb you, your neighbor becomes the battlefield. For six GCC nations now dodging missiles, American protection has become a liability.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisIn French, writing "pantalons orange" without an S is correct but looks wrong to almost everyone. A 2019 study found that perceived errors damage an author's credibility more than actual ones. What happens when being right is socially indistinguishable from being wrong?
News & Analysis Psychology & BehaviorFederal grand juries indict in 99.99% of cases, but that number hides more than it reveals. How a constitutional safeguard became the prosecutor's most reliable tool, and why grand juries are finally starting to push back.
News & Analysis US Domestic PoliticsThe USS Charlotte torpedoed Iran's IRIS Dena just days after the frigate left India's flagship naval exercise. India's 24-hour silence and failure to lead the rescue exposed a widening gap between New Delhi's "net security provider" rhetoric and its operational reality in the Indian Ocean.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisFrom crushed malachite in ancient Egypt to a global industry worth hundreds of billions, the human compulsion to paint, powder, and perfect the face has survived religion, regulation, and outright poisoning. Here is what six millennia of vanity actually looked like.
News & AnalysisNew research from Arctic ice cores and Roman-era skeletal remains reveals that lead poisoning did not topple Rome, but it did quietly diminish the cognitive capacity of an entire continent for centuries.
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