The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
Issue 383
Greenland, Venezuela, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
BY SASHA BREGER BUSH
Oil, Sanctions, and Trump’s Neocolonial Plunder
BY GABRIEL HETLAND
The claim that hydropower is clean and green does not hold water.
BY MARIANNE HILL
the short run
active culture | Labor and Community Fight ICE
making sense | Trump’s Tariffs and “Free Trade”
up against the wall street journal | Taxing the Super-Rich
economy in narrative | The Bad Romance of Extractive Industry
economy in numbers | Evictions and Homelessness