Blue Devils
More than half of the top 15 crypto-PAC-backed candidates during the 2024 campaign season were Democrats.
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Wannabe Gordon Gekkos
Are you missing the point by idolizing them?
Minecraft Scorsese
A Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg satire of mainstream film’s IP problem — in which everything is an adaptation of something else — fails to excuse or address their own extensive IP crimes.
In Carbon We Trust
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a global currency backed by carbon removal turns speculation into salvation.
Five Books on Speculation
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow.
Fruit of the Union
Union assets have skyrocketed while membership remains largely stagnant.
DJ D-Sol’s Double Life
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows how to drop a beat. But could he handle a drop in the markets?
Heavy Metals Music
Zamrock emerged from the optimism of postindependence Zambia, fusing psychedelic rock with nationalist ambition. Its rise and fall mirror the promise — and the exhaustion — of a country built on copper.
Money for Nothing
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
Elon’s Slash-and-Burn Operation
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.