The Immigrant Dividend
PUBLIC FINANCE · LABOR · TAXES
May 9, 2025
Undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
contribute billions in taxes to
Social Security, Medicare, and other…
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Buried Leverage
WAR AND SECURITY · POLITICAL POWER · TRADE
May 8, 2025
How 17 obscure metals became the
quiet chokehold of the modern world
The problem with the future is that
it runs on metals no one talks…
Brave New Land
MAGA · POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS
May 7, 2025
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote the
classic dystopian novel Brave New
World , sketching a future that…
The Deal
WHITE HOUSE · POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS
May 6, 2025
The piece examines Donald Trump’s
apparent indifference to the
Constitution, contrasting his…
Unsung Defiance
POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS · IMMIGRATION
May 5, 2025
The narrative recounts experiences
of individuals resisting state
repression across Myanmar, Syria…
The Quiet Fire in Sükhbaatar
Square
POLITICAL POWER · VOTING RIGHTS · ASIA
May 3, 2025
On December 10, 1989, Hashbat Hulan
led Mongolia’s first public protest
in decades, sparking a nonviolent
democratic.
They had rehearsed the chants. Hulan
told them to be louder than the rock
bands.
It was December 10, 1989—
International Human Rights Day —and
Mongolia’s first public protest in
over half a century was set to begin
in the capital…
Maine’s Medical Meltdown
PUBLIC HEALTH · MEDICINE · WHITE HOUSE
May 2, 2025
Federal cuts and policy shifts have
severely disrupted biomedical
research funding in Maine, leading
to halted projects.
The phone call came in April. No
press release, no warning. Just a
curt message from the National
Institutes of Health: the $500,000
grant supporting vaccine research at
the MaineHealth Institute for
Research was gone.
Dr. Clifford Rosen, one of the lab’s
senior scientists, still remembers…
Twenty Thirty-four
POLITICAL POWER · MAGA · REPUBLICANS
May 1, 2025
Set in a dystopian future United
States, the narrative reimagines
Orwell’s "Nineteen Eighty-Four" with…
The Dictator Next Door
POLITICAL POWER · VOTING RIGHTS · INFLATION
April 30, 2025
The text outlines how authoritarian
regimes gradually consolidate
control through media restrictions,
financial constraints, surveillance…