Musk vs. Bezos The Adriatic has been crossed by Odysseus and Caesar, by Venetian fleets and Napoleon’s navy, by countless men bent on dominating the world. It has seen its share of courage and folly. But one day in June 2025, off the island of Cres, it witnessed something genuinely new: a man worth …
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender. In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense, torched a couple decades of American policy, and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy. He lifted sanctions on the import of Russian diesel …
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PayPal and Wix.com are the latest companies on Phil Davis’s radar.
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The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans. Late last night, President Trump announced a “massive” deal to buy diesel fuel from Russia. For the American truckers and farmers Trump claims to be serving, the deal means little or nothing. Trump may not know or may not …
A personal note: Watching our country slide toward autocracy is deeply troubling, saddening, and disgusting. Trump’s actions seem to grow worse by the day,...
The Treasury secretary is projecting confidence while struggling to get borrowing costs down. The political strategist James Carville once joked that if he ended up being reincarnated, he’d like to come back as the bond market. “You can intimidate everybody,” he said. Not Scott Bessent. About a month …
Both companies made the same call, and the reason is important. The AI industry has spent three years rewarding companies that moved fastest to adopt …
The president made the announcement hours after Europe caved to U.S. pressure and agreed to release from its stockpiles of the fuel. President Donald Trump said Friday he was ruling out a diesel export ban and never really considered one in the first place, hours after Europe caved to U.S. pressure …
A reduction in refineries has already driven the price of diesel to record highs, threatening economies. An U.S. export ban would be “tremendous shock and blow.” The Iran war has sent diesel prices soaring around the world, straining national budgets, adding costs to businesses and snarling supply …
The number buried inside it is unlike anything Wall Street has seen from an AI company. Anthropic has spent months building toward one of the largest …
Anne Applebaum on Donald Trump’s global shakedown
Anne Applebaum joins Paul Wells to discuss her Atlantic magazine cover story, "Empire of Grift." She argues that...
One iron law of current politics is that nobody who associates themselves with Donald Trump emerges with a shred of credibility. For some, that’s not …
Researchers are asking why patients, like former Senator Ben Sasse, inevitably develop resistance to the drug daraxonrasib. Last week, the former senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse announced that his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer had developed resistance to a cutting edge treatment. Cancer specialists were …
Anthropic announced today that its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) system identified a previously unknown biological system in the DNA of viruses …