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China calls in loans to Pakistan, Kenya, dozens more

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis…

Elon Musk laments OpenAI turning into a for-profit

Elon Musk doesn’t express regret a lot, publicly standing by his money-sucking tweets that have been called dated plagiarism and cringey at best and antisemitic and hateful (if not slanderous) at worst. The former CEO of Twitter and Tesla CEO…

Anarchist, anti-capitalist cafe shuts after just one year

There’s no such thing as a free lunch—literally. The Canadian man Gabriel Sims-Fewer (it’s difficult to call him a businessman or entrepreneur) put this to the test last May when he launched “The Anarchist” on Toronto’s Jarvis Street, asking customers…

Confidence in Supreme Court falls to 50-year low: Poll

Confidence in the Supreme Court sank to its lowest point in at least 50 years in 2022 in the wake of the Dobbs decision that led to state bans and other restrictions on abortion, a major trends survey shows. The divide between Democrats and Republicans over…

Elon Musk compares George Soros to Magneto on Tesla sale

Elon Musk lashed out at George Soros after the billionaire liquidated his stake in Tesla, smearing the 92-year-old in a personal attack. Fresh from picking a new CEO for his financially troubled Twitter acquisition, the entrepreneur compared the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor to…