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The Real Trump Shock Is How Quickly It’s Over
American Exceptionalism is back due to AI and the world’s refusal to fight a trade war.
AI Is Waging War on White-Collar Jobs. It Won’t End Well.
In October 1996, at the last party conference before the election that would make him UK prime minister, Tony Blair tried to define the essence of New Labour. He started off by contrasting his party w...
The Real Culprits Behind the Disney-YouTube TV Sports Blackout
The past week has been a letdown for millions of sports fans who planned to use Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube TV to watch games.
Pelosi’s Retirement Leaves Huge Stilettos to Fill
Nancy Pelosi will leave Washington after nearly four decades in Congress as one of the most powerful politicians in American history. She also will leave some very big stilettos to fill.
A US Court Called Maduro an Insurrectionist. That Matters.
What do you get when you mix $54 million worth of seized crude oil, an alleged insurrection, and a dispute over the legitimacy of the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela? The answer: last week’s someho...
Chipotle Isn’t Serving Tariff Inflation — for Now
Restaurants are a tough business in the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times. Folks are eating out less, and prices of menu essentials such as beef and coffee have been rising like it’s 2...
Cash Is Not King. It’s Cringe.
A friend once complained to me that people would sigh and roll their eyes when she used a credit card to pay for her $3 coffee. This was about a decade ago, and I admit, at the time I silently judged ...
US-China Trade Truce Is an Opening for Progress
True to form, the president has judged his trade deal with China’s Xi Jinping to be a triumph: “a 12” out of 10. What it should be is a starting point. The US should use the coming months to explore w...
Obesity Drugs for All? White House Deal Is Just a Start
A White House deal with Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk to lower the prices of their popular obesity medicines, Zepbound and Wegovy, is a step toward making them more affordable and accessible to...
Tesla’s SPAC-tacular Vote Is All-In on Musk
Tesla Inc.’s shareholders have taken an important step toward resolving one of the great mysteries of our time: What is Tesla? It is touted as, variously, an electric vehicle maker, a battery powerhou...
A $1.4 Billion Rare-Earth Deal With a Trumpian Twist
As the US seeks to counter China’s threat to use its dominance in rare-earth elements to squeeze American manufacturers, the government is using public-private partnerships to hasten the production of...
British Taxpayers Are Facing an Ugly Betrayal
The contents of a UK budget used to be confidential. So much so that a Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Hugh Dalton, felt obliged to resign in 1947 after letting slip a morsel to a friendly journal...
Rachel Reeves Still Has a Narrow Path to Survival
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has had a rough 18 months in office. But with some skill, and a lot of luck, there is a narrow path to turn the UK’s economic doom loop — of wea...
Shein’s Sex-Doll Standoff Is a European Humiliation
Nothing epitomizes regulatory failure like the huge poster of Shein Ltd. Chairman Donald Tang at the BHV department store in Paris, where the Chinese e-commerce platform’s first physical outlet opened...
Ukraine’s Pokrovsk Is Falling. Don’t Make It a Defeat.
First Bakhmut, then Avdiivka, now Pokrovsk. In each of the last three years, Russia’s generals have identified a midsize Ukrainian town as their invasion’s next critical target, expending vast amounts...
Gen Z’s Dangerous New Romance — With Cigarettes
Teens and young adults may call them “cancer sticks,” but that hasn’t stopped them from seeing smoke as a mark of sophistication.
The Matcha Craze Needs More Champagne
If you think it’s hard work selling coal to Newcastle or ice to an Inuit, how about selling matcha to Japan?
Stablecoins Are Like Email in a Fax-Machine World
Is 2025 a possible “ChatGPT moment” for stablecoins? It might be, though given the glacial pace at which the new payment technology is making inroads into everyday shopping, it might be easy to miss t...
Boeing’s $1.1 Billion Crash Settlement Is a Second Chance
A sad chapter in Boeing Co.’s history closed on Thursday when a federal judge approved a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice that drops criminal charges against the company for fa...