Too Much Deregulation? We Wish.

In 2022, philanthropic organizations the Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network gave millions of dollars in grants to top universities to “reimagine capitalism.” This reimagination is necessary, they said, because “for more than 40 years, neoliberalism has dominated economic and political debates, both in the U.S. and globally, with its free-market fundamentalism and growth-at-all-costs approach

Woke CEOs and the Financial Fear Factor

In Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America, Charles Gasparino, the Fox Business Network senior correspondent and longtime Wall Street reporter, wades directly into America’s culture wars to focus on how progressive politics is running rampant in corporate boardrooms. The idea for the book—Gasparino’s sixth and his first in

Israeli Leaders Consider Total Siege of Northern Gaza, With Implications for ‘Day After’

Israeli decision-makers are considering a plan to lay siege to northern Gaza in an effort to ramp up pressure on Hamas. The “Generals’ Plan,” a three-page document published last week by high-ranking Israel Defense Forces reserve officers, calls to evacuate up to 300,000 civilians from the northern 1/3 of Gaza and then block all supplies

Orwell in Burma, ‘Flatulent’ Travel Writing, and Banning the Word ‘Plantation’

George Orwell (né Eric Blair) left England for Burma at age 19, a freshly minted graduate of Eton College, the poshest school in the British Empire. The year was 1922, and Orwell/Blair would remain in Burma until 1927, a member of the imperial police force. What little we know of his time there can be

Walz Fails To Boost Harris Support in Minnesota as Independent Voters Favor Trump: Poll

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is bringing no home-field advantage to the Democratic ticket, as independent voters in his state favor Republican candidate Donald Trump, new polling shows. Independent voters support Trump over Harris by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio in Walz’s state, according to a MinnPost-Embold Research poll released Friday. Forty percent of independents polled say

The Right Weaponizes the Anti-Semitism of the Left. We’re for It.

A little-known super PAC called Future Coalition PAC is airing ads highlighting Kamala Harris’s support for Israel, such as it is. “Vice President Harris has chosen a side—the right side,” a narrator says. “Harris has made herself clear, she stands with Israel and the Jewish people.” Another notes that Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, would be