The first meeting since a call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin puts joint hydrocarbon projects back on the agenda.

Tim Cook, Michael Bloomberg, and Oprah met with Mohammed bin Salman on the same trip in which he connected with Jeff Bezos.

They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

Vance is cribbing ideas from tech’s anti-democracy wing.

Checks and balances are supposed to ward off a spoils system. Can the guardrails hold?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

The White House says an agreement with Saudi Arabia includes investments in weapons and technology totaling $600bn.

It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than accelerationist efforts to destroy basic features of the American political and economic systems. From DOGE’s Artificial Intelligence-rampage through federal bureaus, the destruction of agencies like the Department of Education, or Trump’s expanding ICE as his well-funded private domestic army and occupying Democrat-governed cities; the destruction of old standards of normalcy are clear. While documents like Project 2025 reveal elements of Trump’s game plan, there are serious open questions concerning the administration’s long game and exactly how far the oligarchs influencing Trump want to take this antidemocratic movement.