This Palantir advertisement, displayed at the Detroit airport—a symbolic and literal hub of U.S. industrial manufacturing—makes a highly strategic and ideologically charged claim: “Palantir is Reindustrializing America’s Manufacturing.” The ad visually juxtaposes sleek, robotic car manufacturing lines with logos of firms heavily invested in AI, defense tech, and automation (e.g.,...
The United States has entered a new chapter in financial regulation with the introduction of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins aka GENIUS Act of 2025. With this, Congress isn't just attempting to contain crypto, it's designing the very conditions under which private digital money may be...
Since March 19th, 2025, thousands of people in Türkiye have been protesting the government’s arrest of the Mayor of Istanbul. The Mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was a presidential candidate backed by the main opposition party (CHP). He might have won an election against the current President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, so Erdoğan...
What is the role of the state in the governance of global cyberspace? For the past 25 years, that problem has led to conflict, negotiation and governance innovations. A new book by Milton Mueller now covers a critical part of that story: the end of the U.S. government's control of...
