A musk-shaped cloud hangs over Twitter like a bad omen. I smell elon in the air. What to do? What to do? Should I stay or should I go now? If I go Elon will be trouble If I stay troll trouble doubles So come on and let me know …

Friday. Kyiv is going to fall, not a matter of if but when. The Russian onslaught is fierce, showing the world what modern war is. As if the pictures of bombed out Chechnya or Syria — or Afghanistan, Iraq Libya, and Yemen weren’t enough. Saturday. Sleep is riddled with anxious…

I woke up in my sunny winter bedroom to check email and found an insulting surprise from Medium. We’re writing today to notify you that the Medium account associated with this email address is at risk of being removed from the Partner Program. As outlined here, Medium has created new…

After working hard to bring American-style culture war to the UK, Boris Johnson discovered that cancel culture is very much a thing. Only surprise, surprise — it’s the Boris Show on the chopping block and Conservatives wielding the sharpest blades. Tories always knew Johnson was both party animal and chronic…

How a Dumbledore Deluminator birthday gift led me to question a shady trade deal I was buying a present for my Harry Potter-obsessed Swedish granddaughter; a Deluminator, a handy magical tool. It can snuff out lampposts to darken a street — and if instead of darkness you need light, the Deluminator can cough up a magical glow in a dungeon black as night.

The only reason Mississippi could exist was because the rest of the country permitted it. And so it was no longer a struggle just with Mississippi. It was a national struggle and it still is. Victoria Gray Adams to filmmaker Kent Moorhead Freedom Summer 1964: Victoria Gray was challenging John…

a drama for the ages — Prelude: a tale of Brexit to be told in seven acts Ready for the boffo billionaire horror flick of the century? A capitalist extravaganza with cast of millions? A perfect ending to a perfectly awful year? Have I got a yarn for you — the inside story of the coming…

Titanic seems the right word for our twin health and economic disasters. But while they appear to be one and the same thing, Donald Trump actually sailed full-steam into two separate icebergs. One was coronavirus, which despite its invisible community spread, was a forseeable disaster that Trump could have minimized…

Market crashes and marching zombie stocks … Many blame the recent market crash on cornonavirus, but there are deeper and more worrisome trends driving the velocity of the market downturn. There has been a liquidity crisis since September, which the New York Fed has been trying to solve by dumping…