Christopher Marquis

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice. His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

Climate change is no longer a remote future threat. Rising temperatures, more extreme weather, and worsening fire seasons are already disrupting infrastructure, insurance models, and communities.

Andrea Illy shares why regenerative agriculture—not high-tech fixes—may be coffee’s best bet against climate change, offering benefits for soil, biodiversity, and flavor.

Billionaire Bill Gates says we should back away from urgent emissions cuts and bet instead on tomorrow’s tech. But unless that innovation is democratically controlled, it will serve the same interests that caused the climate crisis in the first place.

1% for the Planet certifies companies donating 1% of revenue to vetted environmental nonprofits—embedding climate giving as a core business commitment.

American agriculture is at an inflection point. Despite producing an abundance of food, most U.S. farm households lose money on farming in a typical

The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn't as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.

Sergey Brin's family fled Soviet authoritarianism, an experience he's now invoking to portray a proposed wealth tax as Soviet-style tyranny. Ironically this sort of rhetoric is more likely to bring the US closer to today's Russia: an unabashed oligarchy.

Trump's planned White House ballroom and other architectural projects are not distractions but part of a broader effort to inscribe his preferred values and view of America into institutions that future presidents will be forced to operate within. Resisting it will require organized refusal now and institutional redesign later.

Predictions of mass unemployment miss a deeper concern: new technologies often expand control over workers rather than freeing them.