The new administration has empowered a handful of extremely rich people to exert disproportionate influence over the government. There’s a word for that.

Over the past week, the Trump administration has instituted sweeping policy changes affecting millions of Americans. Two ...

This time around, Trump is all business—and his singular mission is to overturn the basic canons of constitutional self-government.

After the Chinese AI company's breakthrough, critics are accusing DeepSeek of censorship and spreading misinformation. That's actually pretty normal for chatbots.

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In November, many working-class people dramatically registered their disgust with the Democratic Party, either by voting for ...

If you’ve been on social media in recent weeks, you may have seen the word “oligarchy” being thrown around. It is a term you ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

The word ‘oligarch’ returned to the media lexicon at Donald Trump’s inauguration this week when some of the world’s biggest technology entrepreneurs took their seats while US cabinet ministers ...

From Wicked and Dune to The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown, we rank all 10 films vying for the top Oscar this year ...

From South Korea to the United States, there are multiplying signs of democratic crisis in today’s world. The root of the ...

Klee’s “Angelus Novus” is used by Benjamin, who at the time was fleeing from the gestapo, as a metaphor for the illusion ...