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Price Discrimination: A recent FTC lawsuit details how Walmart keeps competitors’ prices artificially high.

Rollback Racket

by Kainoa Lowman January 22, 2026February 3, 2026

Trump Greenland

Greenland and the Benjamins

by Jonathan Alter January 21, 2026January 20, 2026

Greenland Gambit: As Donald Trump threatens to seize Danish territory, Europe’s long-deferred reckoning with American power is finally arriving. European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius (left) is welcomed by Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz (right) before talks in Warsaw, Poland, on September 29, 2025.

As Trump’s Greenland Threat Grows, Europe Begins to Find Its Voice

by Tamar Jacoby January 19, 2026January 19, 2026

Outspoken: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks out on myriad issues. He should use his platform to call attention to human rights abuses in his birth country, Uganda. Here he participates in a strike by New York City nurses on January 12, 2026, in Manhattan

Mamdani: The Unique Voice of NYC’s First African-Born Mayor

by Markos Kounalakis January 13, 2026January 13, 2026

Rest in Peace: Tatiana Schlossberg 1990-2025.

Tatiana Schlossberg (1990-2025)

by Jonathan Alter January 1, 2026January 7, 2026

Shortly before airtime on Sunday night, CBS EIC Bari Weiss pulled a piece by 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Venezuelan migrants being sent to CECOT, a brutal Salvadoran prison.

The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias

by Jonathan Alter December 23, 2025December 22, 2025

Maritime muscle: Greek-flagged ships in port—a sealift capacity NATO’s balance sheets don’t count.

NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece

by Markos Kounalakis December 22, 2025December 20, 2025

US Congress dome closeup with background of water fountain splashing, American flag waving in Washington DC, USA closeup on Capital capitol hill, columns, pillars, nobody

“Our Shared Humanity Is Our Greatest Strength”

by Dr. Gail C. Christopher December 11, 2025December 15, 2025

The Kalven Trap

by Christoph Irmscher December 11, 2025February 3, 2026

Ulysses S. Grant and Pete Hegseth: Two military leaders with very different approaches to discipline, sobriety, and command.

What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Ulysses S. Grant

by James North December 10, 2025December 9, 2025

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