Vice President Biden said yesterday that the United States would stop buying Russian oil and other energy sources in order to hurt the Russian economy even more for its invasion of Ukraine. “We will not be part of funding Putin’s war,” Biden told the crowd. Russia is the third-largest oil producer in the world, after … Read more

Commodities, which aren’t the best conversation starter on a first date but are important for everyday life, did their best meme stock impression yesterday with price swings that were out of this world. Nickel, for example, had its biggest one-day dollar gain on record, which is good news for Nickel. What’s going on now? Commodities … Read more

Yesterday, Russian missiles hit the city of Vinnytsia. After that, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on NATO to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop the Russian bombardment. He’s not going to get what he wants. A no-fly zone is a place where you can’t fly. Don’t think too hard about it; it’s … Read more

California’s 17th district may sound like any other district until you realise that it’s in the heart of Silicon Valley. Ro Khanna is a US representative for that district in the state. Khanna has seen how tech innovation can change communities, and in his new book, Dignity in a Digital Age, he lays out a … Read more

If you don’t like puns, don’t worry: Experts say that the war in Ukraine could lead to an energy crisis that we haven’t seen in a long time. There are fears that Russia, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, could stop producing oil. This has caused the price of oil to rise to the … Read more

Yesterday, Roman Abramovich said that he was going to sell Chelsea Football Club, the English soccer team he’s owned since 2003. Pressure from the West has forced Russia’s oligarchs to give up their most valuable assets, like Chelsea. Abramovich said that the money from the sale will go to “help all the people who have … Read more

President Biden gave his first State of the Union address in the middle of the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II, the highest U.S. inflation in 40 years, and a pandemic that has killed more than 950,000 people in the U.S. We don’t want to be his speechwriters. To deal with the … Read more

Last week, we talked about how the West is using its banking power to cut Russia out of the global financial system. But Russia is also being cut off in other ways, as well. A lot of people aren’t going to cultural events in the country because of its actions in Ukraine. As an example, … Read more