Or, why nostalgia has become such a powerful political factor

Or, why nostalgia has become such a powerful political factor

Central Europe is bidding hard to host Europe’s AI infrastructure. The terms of the deal look uncomfortably like the terms of the last one.

Central Europe is bidding hard to host Europe’s AI infrastructure. The terms of the deal look uncomfortably like the terms of the last one.

Preliminary note: Without making any promises, this is the first post of a less structured series of texts engaging with Albania, crossposted at theExit. The previous texts of The Albanian Mechanism f...

Why environmental mobilization in Albania has proven an effective entry point for commons claims

Why environmental mobilization in Albania has proven an effective entry point for commons claims

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

Head of Hungary’s anti-graft body says €160bn may have been siphoned off during ex-PM’s 16 years in power

Germany is ground zero of the second China shock, but Berlin is not fighting back, even as the shock erodes the country’s engineering sectors that are vital to its economic security.

Universiteti i Prishtinës (UP) është universitet publik në Prishtinë, Kosovë. Është universiteti më i madh dhe më i vjeter në Kosovë.

In these four short videos, Professor Priscilla Alderson and A level student Harry Hubbard introduce the critical realist approach to the social sciences.

Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?

Current management-led proposals to ‘decolonize the university’ within elite Anglo-American institutions ideologically legitimate their restructuring as transna...

Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

Democrats already run moderates in nearly every swing district. It's not enough. A data-driven response to the case for centrism as a core electoral strategy.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will soon be imprisoned after he was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday.

President Trump's trade war is doing reputational damage to the US in surprising ways, at least when it comes to the auto sector.

Spending data shows a resilient consumer powering the economy, but that strength is skewed.

There’s no turning back from Trump’s moves on Intel and U.S. Steel. The challenge is to make public ownership serve the people.

With some lessons from the Hanseatic League

With some lessons from the Hanseatic League

By Besnik Pula, Virginia Tech, bpula@vt.edu Drawing from the first issue of the Menlo Park-based group People’s Computer Company Newsletter (October 1972). In its landmark 2021 report on AI ethics,…

The Euro’s Opportunity, the Yuan’s Emergence, and the Dollar’s Next Chapter

The Euro’s Opportunity, the Yuan’s Emergence, and the Dollar’s Next Chapter

Yes, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. But the far bigger menace is the monstrous growth in wealth concentration over five decades that made a Trump presidency possible—and maybe inevitable. Here...