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If you want to observe a particularly American problem, go open your phone’s Venmo app. Click on “me” and then click on “transfer.” If you...
About two and a half months ago, I wrote a piece about what foreign aid might look like in the second Trump term. Reading that piece now feels...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you pick through Donald...
Presidents have a lot of Constitutional powers: the power to wage war; the power to veto laws; the power to pardon criminals; the power to appoint...
If you pick through Donald Trump’s parade of executive orders upon taking office on January 20, you’ll discover many that revoke orders made by...
Joe Biden has had a rough go of things. He leaves the presidency with the worst end-of-first-term approval rating of any president since Jimmy Carter;...
“To govern is to choose, however difficult the choices may be.” —Pierre Mendès France, prime minister of France 1954–’55 If you want to...
It’s hard to think of a more iconically American company than US Steel. It’s right there in the name. But it’s more than that. The company emerged...
For the sixth year in a row, the staff of Future Perfect convened in December to make predictions about major events in the year to come. Will...
Jimmy Carter, the one-term Democratic president who presided over a period of economic sluggishness and social malaise but who distinguished...
In September 1973, the hi-fi sound equipment mogul Avery Fisher made a massive gift of $10 million (about $70 million in today’s dollars) to the...