Looming Deadline

Looming Deadline Plus: Nuclear reactors, space firsts, Fani Willis’ love life, Trump sneakers, and more… LIZ WOLFE Congressional shutdown? A girl can dream! Today, the federal government will start preparing for a partial shutdown, as two government funding deadlines loom—March 1 for one set of agencies, and March 8 […]

A big fix for home prices

INSIDE SCOOP Adrián Astorgano for BI Mapping the future America isn’t building enough housing. An incredible new map is already changing that. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. COUNT ME […]

The Case for Open Borders

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024 I love the smell of commerce in the morning. – Brodie, Mallrats [1995] HORNBERGER’S BLOG February 22, 2024 An Utterly Fantastic Book on Immigration I just finished reading an utterly fantastic new book. With the possible exception of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s 1995 […]

M&A’s long-awaited return

February 22, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Almost Friday! We’re fully functional at Insider Today, unlike a popular AI chatbot that recently went off the rails. Consider that a win for the humans. In today’s big story, we’re looking at why M&A could be staging […]

The Swiftboater Coming for Biden

Donald Trump is more chaotic than ever — demanding “absolute immunity,” prodding Russia to attack NATO, selling gold-lamé sneakers — but his third campaign is the calmest one yet. The leaks have dried up. Staffers aren’t knifing one another in broad daylight. The machine methodically took apart Ron […]

ADL Gives Head-Scratching Reason for Excluding Nashville Transgender Shooter From ‘Extremist Murders’ Report

February 23 2024   ADL Gives Head-Scratching Reason for Excluding Nashville Transgender Shooter From ‘Extremist Murders’ Report NEWS By Tyler O’Neil The Anti-Defamation League claims right-wing extremists committed “all” the extremist-related murders in 2023, discounting the apparent extremism of Audrey Hale. More San Francisco Puts a Noncitizen in […]

Wall Street <3 AI

February 23, 2024 • 4 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Happy Friday! It’s been 52 years, but we’re back on the moon like we never left. In today’s big story, we’re looking at Wall Street’s love affair with Nvidia (and AI) while Big Tech still grapples with how […]

Kaboom!

Sponsored by Yale University Press Tim Flannery Ready to Rumble A new book by the volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer details the gifts and destruction brought by volcanoes, and the sublimity and terror experienced in their presence. Lynn Hunt A New Force Set Loose A new history of pre-1789 France […]

AI Contracts Woke Mind Virus

AI Contracts Woke Mind Virus Plus: Russian sanctions, Finnish gun ranges, Milei supremacy, and more… LIZ WOLFE Maybe the Founding Fathers were actually black? Yesterday, Google’s artificial intelligence–powered image generator, Gemini, came under rightful fire for being utterly unable to depict historical and hypothetical events without forcing relevant characters […]

2/22/24: Pelosi New Trump Russia Conspiracy, Nvidia Surges Amid AI Boom, Kellogg CEO Tells Poor Eat Dinner Cereal, Google AI Shut Down, Dems Panic Over Michigan Israel Revolt, Republican Calls For Gaza Extermination, Gaza Food Trucks Ambushed, Assange Trial Wraps Up

Krystal and Saagar discuss Pelosi floating new Trump Russia conspiracy, Nvidia surges as AI expands, Kellogg CEO tells poor to eat cereal dinner, Google shuts down AI after bizarre release, Dems panic amid Michigan Israel revolt, Republican calls for Gaza extermination, starving Gazans ambush limited food trucks, and […]

All eyes on Nvidia

February 21, 2024 • 5 min read with Dan DeFrancesco Hello! Big news out of points land, as American Airlines is switching up its loyalty program to get customers to book travel directly through its website. (It’s also raising its checked-bag fees.) Here are the deets. In today’s […]

Mythic Mindset

P R Reddall Feb 21, 2024 P R Reddall addresses the clash between modern materialism and traditional esoteric values. In the very first issue of Man’s World Digest, there was an article by Ernst Jünger, (translation by Martin) entitled ‘Tradition’. In the first paragraph it reads: The individual […]

The Snowy Day

Sponsored by Kasmin Gallery A dispatch from our Art Editor, Leanne Shapton, on the art and illustrations in the Review’s February 22 and March 7 issues. As a kid in Canada, I’d read and reread The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I think it may have been responsible for why I […]

A Form of Navalny

A Form of Navalny Plus: Teen boys go after tampons, Ken Paxton goes after migrant charities, and more… LIZ WOLFE Taking crazy pills: Former President Donald Trump said last evening that the civil fraud verdict that will force him to pony up $355 million for inflating his net worth to banks is actually “a form […]

A Genocide-Complicit Global Hegemon?!

  View in browser A Genocide-Complicit Global Hegemon?! That’s a non-starter. Kevin Barrett Feb 21 READ IN APP “Israel”—an 8,500 square mile insane asylum, populated by the sorriest collection of pathologically-lying uber-racist child-murder-loving lunatics ever to disgrace the human species—continues its ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The World Court […]

3 things to never do at work

INSIDE SCOOP Fanatic Studio / Gary Waters 3 things to never do at work, according to an HR professional After working in HR for 10 years, here’s what I avoid doing in the workplace — including oversharing. READ NOW Insider Today Newsletter Get the inside scoop on today’s […]

It All Goes Back to Tehran

Recently at The Signal: Omair Ahmad on how Hindu nationalism is transforming India. Today: What is Iran up to in the Middle East? Vali Nasr on the Islamic Republic’s strategy to come away as the Gaza war’s biggest winners. Also: Ivan Krastev on how the war in Ukraine […]

Sweden In NATO (Recap)

by Peter Zeihan on February 21, 2024 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has indicated that Sweden accession to NATO shall be ratified by the Hungarian Parliament before March 1, which means Sweden will soon be welcomed into the alliance as a full member. Sweden will be a very […]

2/21/24: Alabama Rules Embryos Are Kids, Trump Team Plots Abortion Ban, Nikki Haley Home State Humiliation, SCOTUS Rejects Affirmative Action Case, Biden Spox Glitches On IDF Sexual Assault, IDF Tells Troops Stop Posting War Crimes, Assange Final Appeal Hearing, Jon Stewart Attacks BlueAnon And Tucker, Former Miner Reveals Coal Baron Secrets

Krystal and Emily discuss Alabama’s SCOTUS ruling embryos are kids, Trump team plots abortion ban, Nikki Haley home state humiliation, SCOTUS rejects hearing affirmative action case, Biden spox glitches over sexual assault IDF allegations, IDF chief tells troops to stop posting war crimes online, Assange final appeal hearing […]