Twenty years of foreign capital flowing into America is ending. Neil Howe and Ben Hunt explore what happens when the tide reverses—and what that means for your portfolio, your geography, and what actually gets built when capital becomes scarce.

The Star Trek replicator could make you anything you wanted - just never quite the way you'd want it. Dave Nadig uses Star Trek's most famous Ferengi bartender to reframe what AI actually costs us as writers and readers. The answer has less to do with the technology than with what we're actually hungry for.

What separates the friendships that sustain us from every other relationship we navigate? Julia Duthie watches a clip from musicians Allison Wolfe and Brianna Collins, then explores with Matt Zeigler how shared creative pursuits build bonds that feel unlike any other relationship. A conversation about tribe, co-creation, and the miraculous fact that five people out of eight billion become your closest friends.

A machine-learning system receives a single directive: maximize transaction volume across a population with no physical form and no direct power. What emerges from its reasoning is less so a plan, and more so a description of the world as it already exists, here and now. Adam Butler reconstructs a document that may describe either the most important observation anyone has made or the most irrefutable kind of error, with no method to distinguish between them.