Business, money, power, culture, politics, and the technology shaping what comes next.
Crypto's Holy-Grail Bill Just Died in the Senate
The industry spent more than $119 million electing a friendly Congress, got a bill through the House, and got a president lobbying for it personally. It still came up 11 votes short, because Democrats refused to look past the first family's crypto fortune.
Free Game NewsThe Men Building AI Just Asked for Speed Limits. Trump Disagrees.
Anthropic's CEO called for a slower AI race and won rare backing from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind. Trump called the idea a hoax, Beijing called it fearmongering, and the market panicked. The fine print deserves a closer look.
Free Game NewsTrump's EPA Scrapped Climate Limits on Power Plants
The Houston announcement was sold as relief for your electric bill. The fine print is a legal theory built to stop any future president from regulating the largest stationary source of climate pollution, while the air gets dirtier in the specific neighborhoods that host these plants.
Free Game NewsThe Supreme Court Just Benched Trump's Mail Ballot Plan. The Bigger Fight Is Still on the Field.
The Court stopped the Postal Service from gatekeeping mail ballots this November, but the quiet war over who controls America's voter rolls is only getting started.
Free Game NewsTrump Puts a Date on Gas Price Relief, and the Date Is After You Vote
With Brent past $100 and diesel at a record $5.94, the president says the Iran war and the pain at the pump both end right after the midterms. He has made predictions like this before.
Free Game News3 More Officers Arrested For Abusing Flock Safety's License Plate Reader
Three more officers arrested, a fourth fired, and two Republican governors pulling the plug. The Flock scandal's real lesson is that mass surveillance came with audit logs, and almost nobody in charge was looking at them.
Free Game NewsKevin Warsh, Federal Reserve Chairman.
August CPI held at 3.4 percent, with war-driven energy prices doing nearly all the damage. The Fed's likely response, the first rate hike since 2023, raises what you pay on your credit card without touching what you pay at the pump.
Free Game NewsTrump's $5,000 Promise Comes With a $1.35 Trillion Bill and One Big Condition
The president's 'Trump dividend' would be one of the largest single spending commitments in American history, and it only exists if his party wins in November.
Free Game NewsThe National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is throwing itself a four-day birthday party in Washington. The more revealing anniversary move is an exhibition of HBCU treasures, borrowed from Black campuses, now traveling back to them.
Free Game NewsThe Federal Reserve is weighing its first rate hike since 2023.
A blowout August jobs report put a September rate hike back on the table, and tomorrow's CPI report will likely decide it. What almost nobody is explaining: what a hike actually does to your credit card, your car loan, and the fragile job gains in the communities that just started catching up.
Free Game NewsOracle is in heavy debt as it builds out AI infrastructure.
A wildly profitable software giant is cutting jobs again in September to help finance the most expensive construction spree in tech history. The bill is landing on employees, bondholders, and anyone whose pension holds Oracle debt.
Free Game NewsAI layoffs are often the stated reason and hidden conclusion of layoffs
Employers have blamed artificial intelligence for more than 200,000 U.S. job cuts this year, and Wall Street keeps rewarding them for it. Workers need to learn the difference between a machine taking a job and a CEO taking the credit.
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