But despite knowing that Bitcoin could fail all along, the now inescapable conclusion that it has failed still saddens me greatly. The fundamentals are broken and whatever happens to the price in the short term, the long term trend should probably be ...

Sure, it’s easy to look at it as a bit of harmless fun, but it really isn’t. For one thing, the lure of a giant jackpot leads people in low-income levels, struggling to make ends meet, to spend dollars they can’t afford for a chance of reversing thei ...

What the hell is Puerto Rico? Since America came into possession of the island in 1898, different governments have called it different things at different times.

They embraced free-market economics in America. Then Chile’s dictator let them transform an entire society.

"The resurgence of global security threats" promises a lucrative "rebound" in defence spending, according to a new report by Deloitte. Total spending of top 25 nations in 2014 was $1,747 billions. US spent $609,9 billions; China f ...

In A History of Reading, the Canadian novelist and essayist Alberto Manguel describes a remarkable transformation of human consciousness, which took place around the 10th century A.D.: the advent of silent reading.

Some of them are colour-coded: Workers in orange T-shirts are with Caviar, a food delivery app; those in green represent Instacart, an app for delivering groceries. The blue jackets riding Razor scooters are with Luxe—if you’re still driving yourself ...

In 1916, a Chicago newspaper urged blacks to leave the Jim Crow South—helping to spark the Great Migration.

Bullshit jobs and a pointless existence are increasingly driving London’s spiritually dead middle class towards a fetishization of working class culture.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has published its list of the world’s top 100 arms manufacturers. Overall, the 100 largest defence contractors totalled $401 billion in sales 2014, though the actual number is probably even higher, ...

Amid all the other Mideast developments this week, the ongoing war in Yemen has been getting ignored. Approximately 3.000 dead civilians from Saudi airstrikes and a silent US.

A look at the world-economy of the first decade of the twenty-first century shows that the world economic boom was largely driven by China’s no-holds-barred construction and industrialization drive. It had created an enormous demand for inputs of all ...

Yet again, shrimp in US seafood counters has been linked with rotton working conditions. And that's just the tip of the crustacean.