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Redeeming the Nobel in Economics

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
This year’s prize went to three institutionalist critics of neoliberalism. The award is overdue.

How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Sam Pizzigati Counterpunch
Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Our tax dollars have essentially supersized our world’s

Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

Israel’s War Against the World

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies LA Progressive
Israel’s relationship with the UN and the rest of the world is at a breaking point, and U.S. obstruction offers no solution to this crisis—it only fuels it.