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Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.

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Didn't the guy with the makeup tell us a few months ago that the US had obliterated Iran's nuclear program?

04.03.2026 22:02 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Another day ending in "y": another rationale.

04.03.2026 20:53 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

03.03.2026 17:38 👍 1992 🔁 716 💬 60 📌 12

WOW

This will mean a lot to some US Capitol Police families

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) just now at hearing: "All those thugs have actually been pardoned, yet we haven't thanked the Capitol Police officers"

03.03.2026 17:04 👍 3251 🔁 669 💬 95 📌 23

Personally, I don’t think we should bring about Armageddon.

03.03.2026 03:49 👍 235 🔁 42 💬 27 📌 0

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03.03.2026 03:33 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

"We pay for this stuff, we use it, the welfare of our children and grandchildren depends on it. I’m not saying the government should take over A.I., but it should use its power to shape its development,” MIT economist David Autor tells me.

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02.03.2026 17:28 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 👍 8043 🔁 2215 💬 122 📌 71
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With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

welcome to the depravity economy

02.03.2026 17:26 👍 269 🔁 77 💬 4 📌 9
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Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement.

"We pay for this stuff, we use it, the welfare of our children and grandchildren depends on it. I’m not saying the government should take over A.I., but it should use its power to shape its development,” MIT economist David Autor tells me.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

02.03.2026 17:28 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Plain speaking has its merits.

02.03.2026 17:21 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Half a billion dollars gambling on death and destruction. We are a diseased society.

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Jesse Jackson’s Timeless Economic Platform He ran for President twice on the concerns that still define American political life—inequality, affordability, and vanishing jobs.

Services in remembrance of Jesse Jackson have started in Chicago. I wrote a column recalling his 1988 presidential campaign and discussing his economic legacy.

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26.02.2026 21:14 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Nada

25.02.2026 15:43 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll pick up on the substance, if there was any, in the morning.

25.02.2026 04:40 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Glad I missed that.

25.02.2026 04:38 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Fair point.

24.02.2026 18:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

23.02.2026 21:38 👍 6571 🔁 1979 💬 132 📌 116
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The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives

The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

24.02.2026 02:15 👍 303 🔁 181 💬 44 📌 14
Kalshi page for what Trump will say during SOTU

Kalshi page for what Trump will say during SOTU

Kalshi page for what Trump will say during SOTU

Kalshi page for what Trump will say during SOTU

I don't think it's a good thing for society that everything is now gambling

24.02.2026 02:17 👍 1774 🔁 252 💬 41 📌 52
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Jesse Jackson’s Timeless Economic Platform He ran for President twice on the concerns that still define American political life—inequality, affordability, and vanishing jobs.

Do read: 'What if Jackson had won the Presidency and enacted the programme he'd campaigned on?'
@johncassidysays.bsky.social imagines a different course for America @newyorker.com
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23.02.2026 19:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Peter Mandelson’s Final Disgrace The Labour politician and strategist was a great survivor. Then came revelations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein during the financial crisis.

Peter Mandelson, a former UK minister and ambassador to the US, has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of abusing public office with leaks to Epstein. Here's a piece I put up last week:

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23.02.2026 19:05 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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How the Right and the Left Converged Against Capitalism: A Conversation With John Cassidy More people sour on this system with every technological disruption and economic crisis even though no one sees socialism as a viable alternative

Why did the right turn toward economic nationalism? And what can a dive into the history of capitalism tell us about where things might go?

@bernybelvedere.bsky.social welcomes The New Yorker's @johncassidysays.bsky.social to discuss on a new episode of Zooming In. Audio and transcript inside.

18.02.2026 14:31 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Demented

20.02.2026 23:58 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

My conversation with @johncassidysays.bsky.social for our Zooming In podcast is out. Go forth and listen—or read!👇

17.02.2026 23:13 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.

In the 19thC, great realist novelists--Balzac, Dostoevsky, Trollope--depicted the seamy and corrupted underside of "high society." In the 21stC, we have the Epstein files.

My latest column:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

11.02.2026 16:58 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.

In the 19thC, great realist novelists--Balzac, Dostoevsky, Trollope--depicted the seamy and corrupted underside of "high society." In the 21stC, we have the Epstein files.

My latest column:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

11.02.2026 16:58 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Another loss for Pirro, whose office has “struggled to secure indictments and convictions, including when a jury acquitted a man who chucked a Subway sandwich ..”

@nbcnews.com
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

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