As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and ...

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought. Exploiting natural global temperature variability, we find that 1°C ...

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million Claude ...

Access to power over other racial groups is their preferred political currency ...

Ten years after she was forced to leave her friends and family, the Turkish journalist feels the importance of home more keenly than ever. And she believes it’s at the heart of many of the world’s con ...

Last winter, I received a distraught message from a man’s voice I didn’t recognize. “Daddy’s dying, can you come?” My brother was in Washington state, where he and my father lived together in an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dear Eric: I lost my husband two years ago after a long, drawn-out decline. It was a traumatic ending. Our son, now in his late 40s, was indifferent to his father’s decline. Our son has always been a ...

This paper examines the profound challenges that transformative advances in AI towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will pose for economists and economic policymakers. I examine how the Age ...

Discover the causes of weak currency, its economic effects, and central bank interventions. Understand the impact of inflation, trade deficits, and policy on currency value.