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Why Silicon Valley Needs Faith to Make AI Flourish
Glen Weyl argues Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas offers Silicon Valley a stabilising bargain: embrace faith to steady regulation, broaden adoption and compete with China.
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Could a Turbulent 2026 World Cup Break FIFA for Good?
The Soccernomics hosts argue the 2026 World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico faces first-ever political tests that could turn FIFA's internal strains into an irreversible break.
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World Cup Needs Rule Changes for More Goals and Less Caution
The World Cup promises glory but often delivers caution and few goals. James Tozer argues FIFA should borrow offside and VAR reforms from other sports to restore excitement.
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Rosa Brooks: How 9/11’s Forever War Paved the Way for January 6
Twenty-five years after September 11, Rosa Brooks traces how the forever war, expanded surveillance and a culture of fear hollowed out American democracy — opening the door to…
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Private Credit Faces a Reckoning as Cheap Money Ends
A decade of low rates flattered leverage and hid risk in private credit. Arini founder Hamza Lemssouguer argues the reset will bring dispersion, restructuring and opportunity — but…
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Jon Meacham: Why the Declaration of Independence Still Defines America
Two and a half centuries after 1776, historian Jon Meacham argues the Declaration of Independence remains America's defining creed — dismissed at first, then invoked by Lincoln, Roosevelt…
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Andrew Jackson: Conquest, Indian Removal and Power Over Law
Andrew Jackson’s Florida campaign and Indian Removal Act forced America to choose between conquest and law. Historian Christina Snyder explains why that choice still echoes.
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Why America Cannot Survive Without the Parties It Loves to Hate
Americans denounce parties as tribal and broken, but historian H.W. Brands argues they are the machinery that replaced monarchy, checked executive power and enabled peaceful transfers of power.
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Settler Violence Is Manufacturing the Next Palestinian Militant
A former adviser to Shimon Peres describes meeting a peaceful Palestinian shepherd pushed toward militancy by settler intimidation. Jewish violence in the West Bank, he warns, is manufacturing…
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How Keynes Rescued Capitalism—and Why It May Need Saving Again
Two and a half centuries after its agrarian beginnings, America owes its economic resilience to Keynesian intervention. Joseph Stiglitz warns that past success does not secure future prosperity.