The late Charlie Munger, who with longtime friend Warren Buffett turned Berkshire Hathaway into a behemoth, attributed his investment successes to his ability to pay sustained attention. "I did not succeed in life by intelligence," Munger recounted. "I succeeded because I have a long attention ...
The flooding in Texas is cataclysmic. It was a hellscape as dozens, many of them girls from a summer camp, were swept to their deaths. Such tragedies spawn questions over whether the National Weather Service could have better warned the public. But this one is different in that the Trump ...
The Big Beautiful Bill — a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms — is now law, and it's a triumph not only for President Donald Trump but for the whole Republican Party. The GOP passed two make-or-break tests here: ...
Trump's Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement. This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war. ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets. Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from ...
The findings of a Gallup poll released at the end of June showed a higher percentage of people feeling less proud to be American. There was a stark division along partisan lines, which, given the Free America protests against President Donald Trump's policies on immigration, Medicaid and his ...
Literature fuels empathy and conversation. It can foster belonging and it can also fuel productive discourse. But only if you actually read. If you choose to opt out altogether, you only fuel ignorance, which is what the Supreme Court ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor accomplished. Parents can now ...