2025-11-29 00:00:33
The danger for Kyiv comes from the kind of peace that resulted from the Punic Wars
2025-11-28 21:00:37
A big subject requires a big book — and few subjects are bigger than global capitalism. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital came to 3,000 pages in three volumes, and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to seven hundred pages. Now along comes Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History at 1,325 pages, reportedly one of the longest books ever produced by Penguin Press.
2025-11-28 21:00:33
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2025-11-28 19:30:33
More plainclothes delivery drivers are likely to appear on Ring cameras this holiday season.
2025-11-28 19:00:34
With the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the US has amassed a fearsome array of assets off the shores of Venezuela: dozens of advanced fighter jets, thousands of troops, guided-missile destroyers, special operations forces, armed drones, gunships, possibly a nuclear submarine. More useful, however, would be a strategy.
2025-11-28 19:00:33
The Trump administration was voted in to turn price hikes around and make things more affordable. It’s time to try harder.
