The Inner Monologue

Donald Trump loves large numbers, especially when they flatter him. Eight wars ended? Why not ten? Why not twenty? In recent months he has claimed, variously, to have ended six, then seven, and now eight wars since returning to office. It’s a neat, heroic headline—if there were only a universe in which it were true.…

Ah, shopping. That delightful activity where you’re forced to choose between something that’ll break before you get it home and something that costs so much you’ll have to sell a kidney—or at least your dignity. The Two Tiers of Modern Consumer Hell Let’s say you need a toaster. (Because, sure, you still eat carbs like…

Let’s play a game called Would You Rather: Because here’s the cold, hard truth: Journalism is circling the drain, and if we don’t start paying for it, the only “news” left will be written by bots, propagandists, and Elon Musk’s meme dealers. “But News Should Be Free!” – Said the Person Who Pays $15 for…

When the gilded dust finally settles on the Trump presidency, the question left echoing across Pennsylvania Avenue will not be one of politics but of cost: Who pays to undo it all?Not the rhetoric. Not the polarization. The ballroom. It is FY2029, the so-called Billionaires’ Ballroom, built in the footprint of the historic White House…

When money compounds faster than time, democracy begins to decay.Our most recent projection of the wealthiest Americans—using their age, life expectancy, and historical growth rates—reveals an unsustainable future. The Numbers That Break the Republic Under a 10 percent annual net return—roughly the aggressive pace achieved by the world’s largest fortunes—the next quarter-century of compounding turns…

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Authoritarian regimes are rarely built by a single man. They are built by coalitions—fervent believers, cynical opportunists, idealists, fanatics, and those simply desperate for belonging. In America’s current populist right, the MAGA movement represents a broad and combustible mix of all these types. Its factions—radical populists, religious nationalists, tech-libertarians, and establishment opportunists—each play a distinct…

To imagine the moment when humanity assembles a sentient, super-intelligent being from 100 percent synthetic DNA is to contemplate the end of evolution as we have known it and the beginning of deliberate creation. It is not a question of whether it could be done, but when—and what it will mean when it is. Every…

For most of modern history, when a new generation discovered something wrong with its food—too much meat, too much gluten, too many animals dying—it didn’t create a new cuisine. It simply adapted the old. The innovation was prosthetic: the same burger, but now made from peas; the same pizza, but now gluten-free; the same milk,…

There is a strange sickness in the American mind — a kind of economic hypochondria. Despite towering skyscrapers, trillion-dollar tech firms, and a gross domestic product per person higher than the average citizen earns in a year, the United States walks around insisting it’s broke. Politicians wail that we can’t afford healthcare. News anchors ask…