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“While the wealth gap was starting to close under the previous administration, he’s widening it in a lot of ways,” Crockett told theGrio.

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The new Wuthering Heights is technically a literary adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 gothic romance about class and society, but it plays more like the hot-and-heavy fever dream of an avid reader of lusty contemporary romance fiction. It’s not a story so much as a series of storm-like adolescent moods that our heroine, young Catherine, […]

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Life imitates art. The famous 1983 hit song “99 Red Balloons” by Nena is about a cluster of party balloons being mistaken for enemy aircraft and provoking a nuclear war. Earlier this week, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared that the authorities had confronted a “cartel drone incursion” over El Paso, Texas, only for the […]

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  Executive Summary In the high-stakes arena of global finance, agricultural trading stands apart as the last bastion of true supply-and-demand economics. While equities are swayed by sentiment and central bank policy, the price of corn, cattle, and coffee is ultimately dictated by the sun, the rain, and the dirt. For the savvy investor, this […]

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EXCLUSIVE – Senate Democrats are grappling with whether to leave their chairs empty later this month when President Donald Trump travels to the Capitol to deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term. Senior Democrats have been hav

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Today is the ten year anniversary of Justice Scalia’s passing. At the time, I could not have fathomed what the ensuing ten years would bring. To commemorate that day, I quote at length from my 2016 book, Unraveled. There are some good nuggets here, a few that I had forgotten! The news of Scalia’s passing broke […]

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Gail Slater announced her resignation as Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division on Thursday morning. Slater’s sudden departure follows disagreements over merger enforcement with Attorney General Pam Bondi, and corruption allegations about senior DOJ officials. Slater’s “America First Antitrust Policy,” inspired by big-is-bad New Right intellectuals Oren Cass and Sohrab Ahmari, […]

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When the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown began last year, several entrepreneurs and concerned citizens established support groups and apps to track the movement of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. These efforts were quickly squelched by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who are now facing a lawsuit as […]

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Executive Summary: The Death of the Static Ledger The traditional annual budget is a relic of a bygone era. For nearly a century, the standard operating procedure for corporate finance was predictable: spend three months creating a static plan, lock it in stone, and then spend the next nine months explaining why the actuals deviated […]

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Wisconsin Public Radio (Sarah Lehr) reported Monday: A judge has sanctioned Kenosha County District Attorney Xavier Solis over his use of artificial intelligence in court filings. Circuit Court Judge David Hughes called out Solis on Friday for using AI in a response to a defense attorney’s request to have a burglary case dismissed [without disclosing this, as […]

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