Death by a Thousand Cuts
POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS · EUROPE
February 17, 2025
Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz
party has transformed Hungary’s
political landscape through…
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The Cost of Protection
TRADE · TAXES · PUBLIC FINANCE
February 16, 2025
Historical and recent U.S. economic
policies on tariffs and taxation
reveal mixed outcomes. Protective…
Anna Walentynowicz: A Life of
Courage and Solidarity
POLITICAL POWER · LABOR · EUROPE
February 1, 2025
Anna Walentynowicz, a crane operator
and longtime shipyard worker in
Gdańsk, became a central figure in
Poland’s.
Early Life in a Turbulent Poland
Anna Walentynowicz (born Anna
Lubczyk in 1929) grew up amid
hardship and war on Poland’s eastern
frontier encyclopedia.com . Orphaned
at age ten during World War II, she
was forced to leave school after
fourth grade and work as a domestic…
Clocked In, Left Out
LABOR · COST OF LIVING · BUSINESS
February 1, 2025
A warehouse worker reflects on the
decline of union influence and wage
stagnation since the mid-20th…
CUDA
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · LABOR · BUSINESS
February 1, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reflects on
the transformative impact of CUDA, a
parallel computing platform that…
Your Employer Isn’t Paying
for Your Health Insurance.
You Are…
HEALTH INSURANCE · LABOR · PUBLIC FINANCE
February 1, 2025
Most Americans receive health
insurance through their employers,
but the cost is effectively borne by
workers through.
DRAFT: Your Employer Isn’t Paying
for Your Health Insurance. You Are.
Most Americans get health coverage
through their jobs — paid for with…
Economic Blunders That
Changed America — for Worse
MACROECONOMICS · INFLATION · TRADE
February 1, 2025
Several U.S. presidents have enacted
economic policies with lasting
negative effects, particularly on
the middle class. From.
Presidents love to claim they’re
steering the economy toward
prosperity. But history tells a
different story—sometimes, even
well-intended policies backfire
spectacularly, leaving middle-class
families to pick up the pieces.
As economist Josh Bivens of the…
Quantum Gold Rush: The Joke
That Could Break the Future
of Money
MARKETS · BUSINESS · CYBERSECURITY
February 1, 2025
Quantum computing poses a
significant threat to current
digital currencies by potentially
breaking cryptographic security and
undermining.
It’s April Fool’s Day, so this might
sound like a joke. But it’s not.
It should be. Supercomputers that…
The Working Earth Agenda
CLIMATE POLICY · CLEAN ENERGY · LABOR
February 1, 2025
Workers displaced by industrial
closures face challenges as climate
policies reshape the economy…