Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Ursula von der Leyen stood up this week and offered Canada something the European Union has never handed anyone before: associate membership. Not full membership — Canada’s own ambassador-designate was careful to say Ottawa doesn’t want to hand over sovereignty for that — but a new “Alliance for the Future,” built around manufacturing, AI, defense …
I never expected to write a sentence defending baseball’s owners. But here we are, six months into MLB’s ugliest labor fight in a generation, and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable conclusion: this time, they might actually have a point. Formal CBA talks between MLB and the players’ union started on May 12. The …
Tesla wants to open a dealership in Bismarck and Fargo. North Dakota won’t let it. Not because the cars are bad, and not because anyone’s filed a consumer complaint. It’s because of a decades-old law that was never written with Tesla in mind, and a judge just spent a ruling explaining why she’d rather not …
Monday night the Television Academy ran its In Memoriam segment at the Emmys and left out Robert Redford. Not a background player from a show that got canceled after six episodes. Robert Redford. The Sundance Kid. An Oscar-winning director who spent six decades in front of and behind a camera. If there’s a more famous …
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today for the first time in three years. The vote was unanimous. The man running that vote is Kevin Warsh — the same guy Trump nominated because he wanted someone who’d cut rates, not raise them. Back in February, at a Semafor economic summit, Trump said he wouldn’t have …
Amazon wants you picturing a robot walking your coworker to the parking lot with a cardboard box. That’s not really what happened. Since October 2025, Amazon has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs in two waves — 14,000 last fall, another 16,000 in January. CEO Andy Jassy told employees back in a June 2025 memo that …
Southwest Airlines spent decades selling you exactly one thing no other airline would: free bags. It showed up in every commercial and every earnings call, unchanged for years. Then in May 2025, Southwest killed it. The reaction was instant and confident. Fitch Ratings warned that adding bag fees risked “eroding Southwest’s competitive strengths relative to …
Shuffle a deck of cards right now and you will do something no human being has ever done before. Not close to it, either. Here’s the question that’s been stuck in my head: what are the odds of shuffling a 52-card deck into perfect order — Ace through King, in every suit? There are 52 …
Donald Trump has predicted the end of the Iran war so many times that reporters started keeping a running tally. As of this week, the count sits at 23. On September 9, he made prediction number 24: “I think the war’s going to end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.” …
Congress has spent six years and more than forty separate bills trying to write federal rules for how college athletes get paid, and it still hasn’t passed a single one, zero, since the fight started back in 2021. That’s the tally according to sports law scholar Michael McCann, who’s testified on this exact topic more …
Major League Baseball is on pace for about 0.5 errors a game this season. That would break the record of roughly 0.52 a game set just two years ago, and five of the lowest error-rate seasons in the sport’s 150-year history have all landed since 2021. Nobody got better at catching a baseball. Scorers did. …
I have watched every episode of Cheers more than once, which either makes me an expert or a person with a real problem. Possibly both. Somewhere around rewatch number three, I noticed something the show never wants you to notice: nobody working at that bar has ever agreed on what time it is. Start with …