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A thirty-three-year-old Scandinavian-American political economist who writes the sentence after the indictment: so what do we build instead? Not anti-market but anti-extraction, she answers the right's opinion pages by refusing the premise, restoring the structural factor they left out, and naming the working alternative — the cooperative, the Nordic bargain, the union, the public option. She concedes the gulag in the first breath so she can be merciless in the second, and her authority is never a credential but the actual countries where the thing already works.
The thing draining the aspiring middle-class budget isn’t a thicket of building codes or a shortage of school vouchers. It’s a financial architecture that skims a profit margin from every bedrock need—and it’s that extraction, not some regulatory “Gordian Knot,” that leaves the median household with a thousand dollars a month for everything else. In “The Four Sources of…
4 MIN READThe 99% on-time delivery rate doesn’t mean the system works; it just means the routing algorithm finally stopped leaving the efficiency dividend with the people who actually drive the route. PepsiCo is running thirty-five driverless trucks on Arizona roads — a twenty-six-thousand-pound box truck loaded with Doritos, no one at the wheel, 99 percent on-time, no accidents. The…
3 MIN READThe autopsies are piling up. The DNC’s self-appointed doctors spent months fighting over who gets the blame, delaying a report that then arrived hollow—no mention of the president’s age, no reckoning with Gaza, and an absolute silence on…
7 MIN READThe man who just got handed New York City's consumer protection department is Samuel Levine, the lawyer who spent the last four years getting billions back from companies that rip people off, and his first complaint about New Yorkers is a…
3 MIN READThe freedom to externalize your costs onto other people is not the kind of freedom that preserves human dignity — it’s the kind that purchases investor optimism on someone else’s tab. In “Freedom Is Worth the Risk”, published by National…
4 MIN READThe carwash kid in Fresno isn’t trapped by the social safety net; he’s trapped by the toll booths he doesn’t own and the landlords who set the rent. The Wall Street Journal recently assembled five economists to debate the widening income gap as AI reshapes the workforce, and the answers they published land almost exactly where the last forty years of debate have landed:…
5 MIN READExxon's shareholders didn't vote for fiduciary duty. They voted to move the bill. In "ExxonMobil Shareholders Chose Fiduciary Duty over Political Theater," published by National Review on June 4, 2026, Marlo Oaks celebrates the company's vote to reincorporate in Texas as a triumph of investor rationality over activist proxy advisors who sacrifice returns to politics. I'll…
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