Newsletter / TechnologyThe Model Is Not the SystemAI’s technical triumphs are arriving with an invoice for governance, provenance, and human judgment.Sep 27, 2026
Newsletter / EconomicsTariffs Meet the Fuel SurchargeTrade barriers slow demand; oil finds the checkout lane.Sep 26, 2026
Newsletter / GeopoliticsThe War Machine Has No Off SwitchIran’s war is being managed for politics, markets and optics—none of which can bring it home.Sep 26, 2026
Newsletter / PoliticsThe Administration of Temporary ThingsWar, trade, press access and succession politics all get a short-term extension.Sep 26, 2026
Newsletter / TechnologyThe Agent Budget Has Root AccessAutonomy is scaling faster than the controls meant to explain it.Sep 26, 2026
Newsletter / EconomicsThe Tariff Is Not Yet on the ReceiptTrade policy’s price effects arrive by several inconvenient routes.Sep 24, 2026
Newsletter / ClimateThe Climate Bill Comes Due in the InteriorHeat, fire and the unglamorous work of keeping a place habitableSep 24, 2026
Newsletter / GeopoliticsThe Strait Has Veto PowerWashington and Tehran discover that coercion is not a peace process.Sep 24, 2026
Newsletter / PoliticsThe Midterm as a Hostile TakeoverWhen election administration becomes a contest over who gets the controls.Sep 24, 2026
Newsletter / Food SafetyThe Lettuce Signal and the Software AlibiFood safety is not a dashboard until somebody can act on it.Sep 24, 2026
Newsletter / TechnologyThe Agent Wants Production CredentialsAI is becoming less a model-selection problem than a permissions, data, and statecraft problem.Sep 24, 2026
Newsletter / BusinessThe Price Is Set Before the CheckoutThree systems where the commercial decision arrives disguised as infrastructure.Sep 22, 2026