2026-02-19 06:20:02
Educated job-seekers are struggling to find employment as AI arrives on the scene.
2026-02-19 04:00:02
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s proposal to cut the sales tax on food is estimated to cost around $30 billion a year. I’ve got a better idea. The amount is almost exactly what it would cost to give every citizen a $20 ChatGPT or Claude subscription.
2026-02-19 03:00:02
The first fruits of a promised $550 billion investment agreement between the US and Japan are already tainted with pollution.
2026-02-19 01:20:07
For America’s brands, the second Trump administration has been a field of rakes lying in wait to give them black eyes. But unlike most rakes, these have big red flags telling you where they are. Which makes it even more surprising and disappointing that the purveyor of one of America’s shiniest and strongest brands keeps stepping on them.
2026-02-18 21:45:02
I last connected with Jesse Jackson at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where former Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination. By then, Jackson, who died Tuesday at 84, was wheelchair-bound, slowed by Parkinson’s disease. He had also lost much of his ability to communicate, his singular political gift borne out of struggle and Black religious culture. But Jesse, which is what people called him, was still a force, embodying the story of a nation and a party
2026-02-18 19:30:04
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines.”
