This essay was first published in our Global Dispatch newsletter. Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox. On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, or ...

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A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players ...