Follow the Money in Maine: Who Is Actually Paying for This Senate Race
Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses are funding one candidate. The other runs on donations that average 26 dollars. Before you decide who to…
 • Neil Zhu
Belfast Isn't Burning Over One Man With a Knife
When people feel like the system works for everyone except them, it doesn't take much to set things off.
 • Neil Zhu
They Won't Lower Your Rent. They'll Lend It to You.
What a zero-interest rent loan tells you about the American economy.
 • Neil Zhu
China Banned Wealth Influencers. America Profits From Them.
Same wealth gap. Two completely different decisions about what to do with it.
 • Neil Zhu
When the CEOs Start Warning You, It's Already Too Late
The economy looks fine on paper. That's the problem.
 • Neil Zhu
The Real Reason George Soros Wants to Defeat China Has Nothing to Do With Democracy.
The story he tells is ideological. The story behind the story is financial.
 • Neil Zhu
He Bought Dell. He Promoted Dell. Then His Pentagon Handed Dell $9.7 Billion of Your Money.
The story is not that it looks bad. The story is that it was completely legal.
 • Neil Zhu
When Faith Becomes a Business, Corruption Is Inevitable
The Shaolin monk got 24 years. The American pastors got private jets. Same story. Different country.
 • Neil Zhu

May 2026

China Assigned a Government Official to Every Poor Family. Here Is What That Actually Looks Like.
Most people know China reduced poverty at a historic scale. Very few understand the specific mechanism that made it work.
 • Neil Zhu
America Says It's Decoupling From China. Its CEOs Never Got the Memo.
The Tsinghua advisory board story isn't about Jensen Huang. It's about a twenty-five year contradiction at the heart of American power.
 • Neil Zhu
The Empire Builds an Octagon
Watch now | America's 250th birthday is coming. The White House is celebrating with a UFC cage fight.
 • Neil Zhu
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America's Free Speech Has a Border, and It's Drawn by the Treasury Department
When the U.S. government treats humanitarian aid as a legal threat, that tells you everything about how freedom actually works in this country
 • Neil Zhu
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