Check out the articles published in 2025 with the most readers.
A few too many?
Is it time to call time on pub closures in the UK? J Mark Dodds warns that we are losing more than our place at the bar. Once the heart
Can America be Progressive Again?
Alan Freeman asks why the US fears being progressive when its economic power was built by progressive policies. Imagine this: a new US political party stands for election committed to
Climate change: a moving story
The displacement of millions of people is the elephant in the climate change negotiating chamber, says Niko Humalisto. He navigates the path the world must take. Planetary warming is destabilising
Inflated interest
Bond Snodgrass tracks the trajectory of the practice of self-interest from a noble aspiration to plain selfishness. Every year, unwitting introductory economics students worldwide crack open their shiny new textbooks
Something is going to go down
Erald Kolasi warns of an inevitable US decline as China commands the trading top spot and the tie between the toppling of trade leaders and conflict. Trump’s recent trade war
Sustainable AI
Patricia Gestoso asks whether we can balance innovation and environmental responsibility In 2021, van Wynsberghe proposed defining sustainable artificial intelligence (AI) as “a movement to foster change in the entire
Tech trumps tariffs
Richard Vague advises Donald Trump to stop charging around and do some research. The US has had a particularly woeful trade deficit since the 1980s, and this article will consider
The requirements of surplus
Michael Williams explains how inequality is preserved when there is enough for everyone. Modern economics purports to tackle the problem of scarce resources. In truth, our greatest challenge lies in
Time to go clubbing
The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner
Why war seems inevitable
Paul Frijters argues that the world’s billionaires hold sway over governments and some are at the point of lashing out. Global trade has greatly contributed to prosperity and peace since