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What is the capitalist algorithm after all but a machine that runs on money?

Syria's Assad (torturer, murderer), India's Modi (vicious zealot), Brazil's Bolsonaro (total madman), Saudi Arabia's MBJ...

superficially, at least, the old-fashioned rules of fair play resemble the rough and tumble of sports, combat, and other...

The new accounting starts with the little stuff: plastic bags, coffee cups, paper napkins.

Ten years ago an academic paper stood the social sciences on their ear. It came out of the psychology department at the...

SUPERHERO COMICS are an inherently silly art form, one that for decades was dismissed as “just for kids,” even by their...

As she was in a hospital bed dying of cancer, my mother got a message from a friend with the words, “remember sisu.”...

Dark pools of dark money roam the financial ecosystem looking for quick kills. Using sophisticated computer algorithms,...

I don’t know the history of confidence. There are no data from which to make inferences about the evolution of human...

On the weather report, another record-breaking hurricane is chewing up the coast. You drive out through the suburbs and...

I, Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, have come to speak to you today about who controls the...

Ray Materson’s works are all little tapestries stitched out of threads from socks. He was in jail for some 15 years and...

Is it possible — in a world crisscrossed with roads, railways, pipelines, and shipping routes — to carve out a little...

Over the last couple of generations, we in the so-called “developed” world have eased into a very cushy way of living....

If economists could see past their mathematical models and formalist pretensions and embrace psychology, sociology and...

“If economic policies have been failing for 30 years, then why don’t we invent a new way of life? The desire for that is...

Somewhere between Santa Clara and Citizens United, we the people lost our confidence. We lost our dignity. We rolled...

I’ve never quite understood finance. It’s a nut I just can’t crack. I don’t get why the stock market goes up when...