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Why Trump v. Cook Matters
Across the ideological spectrum, Supreme Court justices appeared wary of President Trump’s attempts to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook i...
Trump Takes His Case for Greenland to Davos
In an unprecedented speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump ruled out taking Greenland by military force, but...
Inside ICE’s Plan to Build Detention ‘Mega Centers’
ICE has been open about its aggressive detention and deportation targets. And now, the agency has its sights set on a new kind of facility to house th...
Trump’s Economy, One (Second) Year In
This week marks the end of President Trump’s first year back in office. His busy economic agenda included global tariffs, deregulation, tax cuts and s...
The Domino Effect of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
For Beijing, the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was a mixed bag -- an embarrassing surprise, a wake-up call over its alliances in L...
Trump’s Latest Target: Corporate Landlords
Since the 2008 financial crisis, private equity firms and other large investors have bought hundreds of thousands of homes across the US, expanding th...
Pressure Is Mounting on Iran's Regime
Weeks of protests in Iran started over the high price of food and essential goods. They quickly engulfed the nation and, before long, were met with de...
The Jump in ICE Funding Behind The Minneapolis Surge
This week, following the deadly shooting of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the state of Minnesota sued the federal government in a bid to...
What the DOJ Subpoenas Mean for the Fed
On Sunday night, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced that the US Department of Justice had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas threaten...
Why Trump Wants Venezuela’s Oil
After the Trump Administration’s strike on Venezuela and the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, there’s one word on everyone’s mind: oil. President T...
All Eyes on Greenland
Within days of the US raid on Venezuela, President Donald Trump and his administration turned their attention to Greenland, renewing European fears th...
The ACA Subsidies Fight Hits the House Floor
The US House of Representatives will vote today on whether to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that bring down health care costs for milli...
How Venezuela Shifts China’s Calculus
The US strike on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro sent shockwaves across the globe — particularly in China, Venezuela’s top crude buy...
How the Fall of Maduro Could Echo Around the World
President Trump announced early Saturday morning that the United States had carried out a strike against Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás...
Wall Street’s Predictions for 2026
Every year, Wall Street’s top minds — strategists, economists and portfolio managers — pack their best ideas into dense market outlooks, often running...
How Much Would You Pay to Buy Back Your Time?
Tired Americans are increasingly willing to pay a premium for items or services that save time or ease their fatigue: a laundry machine that both wash...
How China Defied the Odds in 2025
China started 2025 with deflation, a property crisis and fears of a “lost decade” damping sentiment. By year’s end, it had stunned the world with an A...
Why African Startups Are Embracing DeepSeek
Chinese tech companies Huawei and DeepSeek are teaming up to offer cloud computing and AI services. And they’re pitching African startups on using the...
Doing the Math on Toy Tariffs
Since the start of his second term, US President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs – especially on China, where most toys are made.
On...
How to Make It in India (Instead of China)
The US-China trade war has upended global manufacturing, forcing companies like Chicago-based Learning Resources to fundamentally change how and where...
The American Toymaker Caught in Trump’s Trade War
President Trump’s trade threw American businesses, which source everything from aircraft parts to baby strollers from China, into chaos. Over this yea...
Why Instacart Backtracked on an AI-Pricing Experiment
This month, the think-tank the Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and the news nonprofit More Perfect Union released a report finding that Ins...
Even a US Blockade of Venezuela Isn’t Spiking Oil Prices
From OPEC powerhouses and US shale producers to countries like Guyana, global producers are drilling more oil and driving down prices. And with the po...
Weekend Listen: Lynsey Addario Keeps Going Back to Photograph War
Lynsey Addario’s life work means taking great risks to tell other people’s stories. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abd...
Inside Disney and OpenAI’s Billion Dollar Deal
As AI-generated images ping pong around the internet, the Walt Disney Company has been mostly playing defense, using litigation to protect its intelle...
Truckers Are Aging Out. Who Will Replace Them?
The trucking industry has long been dominated by older white men. But as those truckers steer toward retirement, who will replace them?
On toda...
Many Cancer Drugs Don’t Extend Life
Treating cancer is a massive business. In 2024 alone, cancer treatments generated at least $200 billion in worldwide sales for the pharmaceutical indu...
The $2 Billion Flood Control Scandal Rocking the Philippines
The Philippines is no stranger to typhoons, but this year’s storms exposed something far uglier: a vast corruption scandal.
On today’s Big Take...
Wait, Weren’t We Supposed to Have a Recession in 2025?
All year, the jobs market, consumer sentiment, AI and inflation flashed warning signs about the economy — but 2025 managed to avoid a recession.
...
Weekend Listen: The Man Driving Microsoft’s New AI Strategy
Mustafa Suleyman co-founded AI lab DeepMind when he was just 26 years old. Four years later, it was acquired by Google for a reported $400 million.
How to Invest in AI Right Now
Depending on who you talk to, AI is the key to remaking industries and jobs – or a bubble ripe to pop. And if you’re an investor, you’re already expos...
A Fifth-Generation Farmer on Trump’s $12B Bailout
From rising costs to shifting markets, American farmers are struggling to make ends meet. Now, the White House is stepping in.
On today’s Big Ta...
The Fed Just Cut Rates Again. Here’s What’s Ahead for 2026
On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee cut rates by 25-basis points. It was the scenario a lot of close watchers of the Federal Reserve expec...
India Wanted to Become The World’s Toymaker. Then Tariffs Happened
The US tariff war with China sent American companies scrambling to find alternative manufacturing hubs. India looked promising until the White House u...
What to Expect in the DOJ Epstein Files Release
After last month’s passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the US Department of Justice is on the clock to release an enormous cache of documen...
Weekend Listen: Salman Rushdie Isn’t Afraid of Free Speech
Salman Rushdie was nearly killed when he was stabbed 15 times on stage in upstate New York in 2022. His injuries were so severe that he lost an eye. I...
Netflix’s $82 Billion Power Play for Warner Bros.
News broke overnight that Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $82.7 billion.
It’s a deal raising eye...
How Microsoft Excel Conquered Corporate America
Excel. If you work in corporate America, that word either inspires laser-focused productivity or pure dread. Over the last 40 years, the spreadsheet s...
Are We Headed For Another ‘Crypto Winter’?
Back in October, Bitcoin reached a record high. Just a few weeks later, its price had plunged, taking out over $1 trillion dollars in assets along wit...
Hong Kong's Deadly Fire Triggers Rare Public Outrage
Hong Kong’s worst fire disaster in decades has stirred up public anger over negligence, safety standards and official accountability.
On today’s...