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• GLP-1s and the ‘Wild West’ of Wellness

  Here’s a shocking number: One out of eight American adults is taking a GLP-1, like Ozempic or Zepbound, according to a KFF poll. GLP-1s are the biggest pharmaceutical story since antidepressants. But there’s still so much we don’t...

  8 mei 2026 4437 sec.

• The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism

  In the U.S., illiberalism is in power. I don’t think anybody really argues against that. But I’ve been surprised by how weak liberalism has felt in response. Donald Trump isn’t a popular president; he isn’t making people want more of...

  5 mei 2026 3900 sec.

• What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’

  “Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued. So I wanted to take a moment to talk...

  28 apr 2026 7402 sec.

• Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle

  Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bridge figure between the San Francisco counterculture and the emerging technology scene....

  24 apr 2026 3000 sec.

• Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?

  Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this election cycle, and a considerable amount of that money is going toward attack ads against...

  21 apr 2026 5566 sec.

• Our Tax System Should Make You Furious

  Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth. In 2021, ProPublica published an investigation built on leaked tax documents...

  17 apr 2026 3945 sec.

• Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

  For decades, most discussions of Israel and Palestine were framed around the eventual creation of a two-state solution. That effort has been dead for years. What has emerged in its place is what the political scientists Marc Lynch and...

  14 apr 2026 5248 sec.

• Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War

  When President Trump didn’t annihilate “a whole civilization” on Tuesday, as he had threatened to do, much of the world exhaled. But the damage of his statements — a U.S. president, the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful...

  10 apr 2026 4070 sec.

• Why Iran Believes It Has the Upper Hand

  In a prime time address on Wednesday, President Trump proclaimed that America was “on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat.” But he also kept open the option of boots on the ground. The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is...

  3 apr 2026 3694 sec.

• Michael Pollan’s Journey to the Borderlands of Consciousness

  Consciousness is this amazing, mind-bending riddle. It’s the only thing any of us truly knows. We experience everything else in life through it. And yet we barely understand it. We don’t know what it’s made of or how it works or why it...

  31 mrt 2026 5292 sec.

• Will Iran Break Trumpism?

  Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is a prominent thinker on the right. He’s a contributing editor at the conservative publication the Claremont Review of Books,and...

  27 mrt 2026 4107 sec.

• 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.