Great coverage here. Reminds me of the golden days when this app still functioned well.

What better way to fuel anti-American sentiment across the region—and indeed the world—for generations to come than to have someone like Pete Hegseth boast like a schoolyard bully, in such a macho, immoral, and vile tone, about delivering death and destruction to a nation that is

I'I've been getting a lot of calls about the industrial food system's vulnerability to fertilizer import shocks. Here's an interactive widget to see who imports what, when, and through which chokepoint. rajpatel.org/2026/03/06/fer… Stop the war. Stop the dependency.

If you want to reduce emissions, ignore plastic packaging and food miles: almost all food emissions come from production. Reducing meat will do far more than anything else.

I want to up the ante on this. If you have a large document collection, I will digitize it for you, for free (you pay for inference), on one condition: that we make the data publicly available immediately.

Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—won't restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. bloomberg.com/account/newsle…

For decades, dependence on fossil fuels meant dependence on volatility. In past oil shocks, countries had little choice but to absorb the pain.  Now they have an exit ramp: Homegrown renewable energy has never been cheaper, more accessible, or more scalable. The resources of

This is the economist's editor-in-chief

If you have a library nearby, please get a library card! It’s boosts library stats, which helps keep them funded and open for kids who need them the most, I beg!🥹🙏🏾

What you need to keep fossil fuels on the market is not subsidies anymore. It's full on bribery.

What if the most important thing an economics research lab could produce was not a paper but a novel? Karen Jennings wrote First of December as a writer-in-residence at our lab, Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past It follows three people in the final days before slave emancipation at the Cape in 1838.

The Sociable Weaver bird builds a nest that houses 500 birds and regulates its own temperature. An architect in Namibia studied it. Then built this. The Nest Sossus is a double-skin thatch structure, reed on the inside and reed on the outside, insulating air gap in between. The

Hickel’s article is bad. Not provocative. Not controversial. Bad. Its claims do not hold from the data analysis. Worse, work like this obscures much serious critical work and makes it easier to dismiss criticism of market reform as sloppy ideology. But good work does exist. A 🧵:

Genuinely never seen anything like this man wtf😭😭

Remembering this classic. RIP Eusebius. Gone too soon!

It’s only week five this is the global picture as of today. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - Fuel rationing active. Universities closed. Military deployed in oil depots. 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - Fuel rationing active. 15 litre per week cap for private motorists. Four day school week. Scaled back public

AI has fundamentally changed how I approach work. I now wait for my wife to leave her desk, and jump onto her pc to do as much as I can using her Claude before she returns to kick me back off again. Weird thing is I'm probably more productive this way. 😂😭