Tag: politics

• What’s New about Involution?

  August 28, 2025

  In recent months “neijuan” (内卷), or “involution,” has become one of the most important buzzwords in Chinese policymaking circles. It has come to describe a disruptive process of relentless competition… more ›

• Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.’s VC firm bets on Polymarket

  August 27, 2025

  1789 Capital invested double-digit millions of dollars into Polymarket https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-jr-vc-fund-polymarket more ›

• Microsoft Asked FBI for Help With Israel-Gaza Protests

  August 27, 2025

  Twenty activists urging company to sever ties with Israeli military were arrested last week. Executive Brad Smith said he welcomed discussion but not disruption. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/microsoft-asked-fbi-for-help-with-israel-gaza-protests?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NjIyMDc1MCwiZXhwIjoxNzU2ODI1NTUwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMUxMOEpHUFFRR1UwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOENBMUZGREZGMEI0M0E1ODRENTk5MEQ3NDAwNDkzMCJ9.ZxRrVJ29dvRDmuie-Z8dWFKR1_o_HzD4hLa-kAzRlVc&leadSource=uverify%20wall more ›

• EU countries push to abolish trade barriers with Mediterranean partners

  August 26, 2025

  In the forthcoming Pact for the Mediterranean, the EU consider to relaunch an attempt at deeper integration with Mediterranean countries, amid instability in its relations with the US and China.… more ›

• Maneuvering the Algorithm: How Chinese Women Are Hacking Censorship to Keep Female Voices Alive

  August 25, 2025

  Using innocuous comments, Chinese women are helping each other speak out and stay visible in a system that’s designed to silence them. https://open.substack.com/pub/pekingquack/p/maneuvering-the-algorithm-how-chinese?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• Real money gaming firms wind down operations

  August 25, 2025

  President Murmu signs Online Gaming Act into law, RMG firms wind down operations in India. https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/real-money-gaming-firms-wind-down-operations/article69965196.ece more ›

• Blackwater’s Erik Prince Muscles Back Into the Mercenary Business

  August 18, 2025

  Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/erik-prince-mercenaries-vectus-global-5a166dca more ›

• Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?

  August 15, 2025

  Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism more ›

• Exclusive: Rwanda reached deal with US to take in up to 250 migrants, government says

  August 9, 2025

  The United States and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to accept up to 250 migrants deported from the U.S., the spokesperson for the Rwandan government and an official… more ›

• American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era

  August 9, 2025

  With Donald Trump’s return to power, a neo-Nazi group buoyed by his rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America. Its leaders: a Texas… more ›