The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a

<div> To understand how finance and credit operate in the American global empire, this paper contrasts the Sovereign Currency View (SCV) and the Global Cr

A third industrial divide?

Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar

Sami Mahroum proposes levies on the computational time consumed by AI systems in lieu of unworkable "robot taxes."

Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.

Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve something much more dangerous: functional monetary sovereignty.

With the global monetary order on less certain ground, will Europeans seize the opportunity to make the euro a true reserve currency issuer?

The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…

Tokenization of everything? Exploring the limits of blockchain technologies in the governance of financial markets and assets

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success.

On The Triumph of Broken Promises by Fritz Bartel

Trump and the Federal Reserve.

Mark Scott and LK Seiling discuss the struggle for researcher access to social media data and an alternative future where transparency is seen as a civic good.

Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly…

Mit ihrem Begriff des «libertären Autoritarismus» bestimmten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey die Post-Pandemie-Diskussion über neue und aggressive politische Lagerbildungen. Ihr Buch Zerstörungsl...

Welche Rahmenbedingungen sind für die verantwortliche Gestaltung von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Open Science notwendig? Zwei neue Veröffentlichungen bündeln Konferenzergebnisse und entwickeln Handlun...

On civil society.

Economic Space Agency — Architecting infrastructures for postcapitalist networks.

An expanded repost from Twitter/X

Are the questions we seek to answer to be dictated by the powerful few, or are they to be open to debate among citizens and scientists?

President Donald Trump wants the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a lot, quickly. He will get that, and probably much more, under the next Fed chair.

Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity

In her new collection of essays, Hito Steyerl plunges into the rising tide of AI-generated slop.

Written by Brian Shearer

Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

Eunice Mercado-Lara, Shannon Dosemagen, and Alison Parker make the case for reforming federal procurement rules to boost open source solutions.

Liberals and libertarians should make common cause against it

Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.

Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.

Panic about the rise of DeepSeek says more about Silicon Valley than it does about the reality of innovation in China.