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• How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?

  Iran has currently shut off more than 10 percent of the world’s oil supply. If that goes on for a lot longer — or if the war escalates to include more strikes on energy infrastructure in the region — the price of oil could go through...

  24 mrt 2026 3744 sec.

• We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now

  Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to describe. But among other things, it traces the new coalitions Klein saw forming on the...

  20 mrt 2026 4804 sec.

• What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran

  The Trump administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to this war. And the United States, Iran and Israel were brought to the brink of war in the first place because of a whole series of misjudgments and miscalculations going...

  14 mrt 2026 5471 sec.

• I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This War

  I’m opposed to this war. The Trump administration did not consult the American public or try to persuade Congress before authorizing the strikes on Iran. I don’t think the administration is prepared for what the strikes might...

  10 mrt 2026 3646 sec.

• Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic

  Last Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that he was breaking the Pentagon’s contract with the A.I. company Anthropic and would declare the company a supply chain risk — a designation for companies so dangerous, they...

  6 mrt 2026 4198 sec.

• The Great Lie of War

  Two sitting heads of state, eight weeks apart. On Saturday, February 28, the United States and Israel launched a massive military assault on Iran that resulted in the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with much of his senior...

  3 mrt 2026 4258 sec.

• Trump’s Fantasy State of the Union

  President Trump’s approval ratings on the economy, immigration and trade are deep in the red. But in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, he decided to tell the American people: You don’t know what you’re talking about. “Today...

  25 feb 2026 2803 sec.

• How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

  A.I. agents are here. Have they changed your life yet? The release of agents like Claude Code marked a new pivot point in the history of A.I. We are leaving the chatbot era and entering the agentic era — where A.I. is capable of...

  24 feb 2026 5897 sec.

• Who Has the Power in Trump's White House?

  It has been harder to get insight into the dynamics of President Trump’s White House this term compared with the first one, partly because there have been fewer leaks. But after the attack on Venezuela and the administration’s actions...

  20 feb 2026 4319 sec.

• The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power

  At the end of January, Trump’s Justice Department released what it said was the last tranche of the Epstein files: millions of pages of emails and texts, F.B.I. documents and court records. Much was redacted and millions more pages have...

  13 feb 2026 5173 sec.

• George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin

  George Saunders is tired of being the “kindness guy.” Saunders is one of my favorite fiction writers, and a friend of the pod; I talked to him back in 2021 and 2022. He also has a reputation as a kind of guru of kindness, thanks to a...

  10 feb 2026 5225 sec.

• We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

  Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago. What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so twisted? And what exactly is wrong...

  6 feb 2026 5220 sec.