Because sometimes things just need to be said….
Every player, captain, and assistant captain at this week’s Presidents Cup collected a $250,000 check before a single putt dropped. Add up both rosters and that’s $8.5 million handed out for an event that still bills itself as an exhibition played for pride, not pay. Nobody bothered updating the pitch. The money itself isn’t new. …
In August 2023, the Women’s World Cup final aired for free on Fox, and it drew the biggest U.S. television audience a Women’s World Cup final has ever pulled in. Four years from now, watching the next one will cost you a Netflix subscription. FIFA and Netflix just made it official. Netflix is now the …
In December, the Senate held a vote to keep the discount on your health insurance alive for three more years, and it lost by a margin that would embarrass a student council election. Nine votes short. Here’s the timeline, because it actually matters. The enhanced premium tax credits that have been subsidizing Affordable Care Act …
Oracle is building a $165 billion AI data center in the New Mexico desert. This week it sent out a legal notice covering itself in case that never actually happens. The project is called Project Jupiter, Oracle’s piece of the Stargate buildout with OpenAI and SoftBank. The plan is 2.45 gigawatts of power coming online …
Fat Bear Week started yesterday, and it might be the only contest left in this country that everybody actually trusts. Here’s how it works, if you somehow missed it. Katmai National Park in Alaska runs a bracket of brown bears who spend all summer and fall stuffing themselves with salmon before winter hibernation. Sixteen bears …
A federal judge told the President of the United States no on the same building-naming question twice this year, and instead of accepting it like anyone else would have to, he got on a call with a sitting member of Congress and told her she was dumb. Quick timeline, because it matters here. Trump’s handpicked …
Your clocks fall back on November 1st. Again. And they’re doing it even though Congress supposedly already fixed this. Back in July, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act 308-117, with Trump’s backing, to stop the twice-a-year clock flip for good. A real vote, on the record, with numbers most bills in Washington would kill …
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 …