Democracy’s a pretty simple concept: Voters vote for a politician, the politician with the most votes wins, and that politician then represents voters as an elected official. That’s the idea anyway, right? But what if — just what if — instead of voters picking politicians, politicians instead could choose their own voters? And basically guarantee […]

Editor’s note, August 8, 11:30 am ET: Israel’s Security Cabinet has now approved a plan to take control of Gaza City. Israel’s restrictions on humanitarian aid in Gaza are, first and foremost, a moral atrocity. Israeli policies since March, most notably the initial shutdown on aid entering the Strip, were very obviously going to cause […]

For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of headphones that could read my mind. Well, kind of. The headphones are equipped with a brain-computer interface that picks up electrical signals from my brain and uses algorithms to interpret that data. When my focus […]

Four months after President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes threw the global economy into chaos, we’re getting a sequel — but there appears to be at least somewhat more of a method to Trump’s tariff madness this time around. Trump is using steep tariffs to try to force dozens of countries to agree to make […]

Editor’s note, August 7, 10:30 am ET: On August 7, Trump’s tariffs went into effect for about 90 countries. The story below was originally published on April 28. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have drawn a lot of opposition — from economists, businesses, Wall Street, and the majority of Americans. Yet Trump has received support from a […]