Elon Musk and the ghost of Jay Gould

By Matt Phillips, author of Axios Markets A powerful 1%-er launches a takeover bid for a seemingly irreplaceable communications network, igniting a panic over the power of the super-rich. The intrigue: No, not Elon and Twitter. We’re talking about the notorious Gilded Age financier Jay Gould — who […]

American teacher is sentenced to death in China for fatally stabbing his 21-year-old girlfriend when she tried to break off their relationship

By Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press Shadeed Abdulmateen, originally from Los Angeles, was sentenced to death on Thursday for international homicide in China  Abdulmateen, a teacher at Ningbo University of Technology, met the victim, identified only by her surname, Chen, in 2019 after lying about being […]

Oligarchs After Liberalism

By Matthew Walther, The American Conservative Elon Musk’s attempt to purchase Twitter is probably doomed to failure regardless of how much money he is able to raise against his shares in Tesla. But the jubilation with which his attempted takeover has been greeted by conservatives, especially those who […]

Ron DeSantis Declares WAR On Disney

Disney will actually save money here. Their tax status allowed them to pay fewer taxes but they covered all the roads, police, fire, etc infrastructure in their area which cost more than just paying general taxes but let them keep the area around the parks at a standard […]