Last week I went to Dubai. I didn’t much like it; Dubai feels as if the brief was to build a city but to leave out all the things that make cities good. Then again, I was there for a crypto conference ...

Nick Bostrom literally wrote the book on superintelligence. When machines can do nearly everything better than we can, he says, we must ask what is our purpose.

I read a lot of history books and often find myself wondering about how current events will be interpreted by future ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the U.K.’s seizure of 69,000 bitcoins (that’s worth around $7.7 billion) from a Chinese ...

The Civil War never ended. It just shape-shifted. In the midst of a bitterly divisive sociopolitical and cultural war, ...

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine happened more than three years ago, which means full-scale Western sanctions on Russia did too. Concurrently, Russians have had just as long to figure out ways to ...

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the ...

The Playbook uncovers the hidden patterns that are reshaping our world. From Russia to Hungary, India to Georgia, Coda has tracked how powerful people follow eerily similar steps to change the rules ...

Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks. Jones began his ...

Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the least talked about and scrutinized.

For a retired federal employee, Tom Homan, an acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration, is a very busy man. For the last year, he’s crisscrossed the ...