How power and money shape life.
Here I keep short entries on political economy and geopolitics as they unfold. Over time, they build into a record of how the world is being rearranged in prices and pay slips, in borders and wars, in debt, housing, work, and care.
5 May 2026: When a Majority Feels Itself Becoming a Minority
In the United States, for the first time since the Declaration of Independence, white Americans are projected to lose their majority status. I use the term non-Hispanic White Americans because that is the label the U.S. Census Bureau uses.