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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

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.

After Nasrallah

Adam Shatz London Review of Books
Hizbullah is not a personality-driven organisation, or claims not to be, but in Nasrallah it had a leader of unusual gifts.