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Early Movers Win The AI Discovery Game
Search is shifting under our feet. A new discovery system is forming, and it looks a lot like the early days of SEO. My take is simple:…
Are Premarital Assets Protected in Divorce?
If you’re thinking about filing for divorce, you might also be thinking about how your assets will be divided. For those who brought…
Don’t Annex Greenland
Even the results-oriented Trump foreign policy needs to distinguish between friend and foe. Source link
Tim Walz Departs on a Deluge of Fraud
The Minnesota governor was brought down by the consequences of his own irresponsible profligacy. Source link
What to Do with California’s Billionaire Tax Proceeds
A health-care union’s ‘one-time fix’ for federal Medicaid cuts could easily become permanent. Source link
Beijing’s Long Game Meets Washington’s Gamble
Venezuela has become a proving ground for the emerging world order. Source link
Bugs Not a Feature
The week of December 29, 2025: Insect disappointment, the debt, silver, California’s proposed wealth tax, and more. Source link
Tim Walz’s Unsurprising Two-Step from the Political Stage
The financial scandals that long shadowed the Minnesota governor finally caught up to him. Source link
Hack Walz Down
Tim Walz exits stage far left, undone not by extremism but by scandal. Source link
Legal Questions over the Maduro Extraction Won’t Help Him in Court
As a matter of American law, the ex-dictator hasn’t a leg to stand on. Source link
The Maduro Raid Was a Strategic Victory and a Tactical Success
Maduro’s fall presents the communist Chinese with a comprehensive embarrassment. Source link
In Venezuela, the Era of Escaping Consequences Is Over
In the wake of the narco-regime’s takedown, five lessons emerge — for the region, for the U.S., and for the world. Source link
Harry Bliss’s “Wintry Mix”
For the cover of the January 12, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss used color and composition to contrast the warmth inside with the…
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The latest and most vigorous addition to this genre is “Sex Beyond ‘Yes’: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone” (Norton), by Quill Kukla, a…
All Hail the Jamaican Patty
The leader of the fancy-patty movement, for me, though, is Bar Kabawa, the swanky, sexy East Village Daiquiri joint that’s attached to…
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was. Source link
Joan Lowell and the Birth of the Modern Literary Fraud
Sensing that she was losing the argument, Lowell rushed at Colcord, winding up to throw a punch before stopping short a few feet away from…
Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to…
Tesla dethroned as the world's top EV maker
Elon Musk’s Tesla is no longer the top electric vehicle seller in the world as demand at home has cooled while competition heated up…
“Young Mothers” Is a Gentle Gift from the Dardenne Brothers
Goodness is not hard to find in “Young Mothers.” The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their…
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How Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring Is Changing the Diamond Game
In the antique-jewelry scene, the reveal was the equivalent of a Super Bowl victory. “I think I cried,” Marion Fasel, the author of “The…