Oil prices fall on Iran deal, but whether they go much lower ‘is highly questionable’
Energy prices tumbled and stocks jumped Monday — but only moderately — after the U.S. and Iran said they had reached a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Fox buys Roku for $22 billion
Fox Corporation announced Monday that it plans to buy the video streaming giant Roku, along with its namesake channel and customer data, for $22 billion
Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age
The Institute for Social Research was formed in 1923, under the auspices of Goethe University, in Frankfurt. Early meetings occurred at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum, beneath a diplodocus skeleton and other prehistoric relics....
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
On a Saturday afternoon in Nuuk, Greenland, last March, a thousand people walked down toward the harbor, to a small red cabin that bore the Great Seal of the United States—an eagle grasping an...
Lessons from the Original Tech Bubble
Meanwhile, in London, Albert Grant, an indefatigable stock promoter who served as the model for the crooked financier Augustus Melmotte in Anthony Trollope’s “The Way We Live Now,” was taking advantage of the benign...
Misery Loves Company—If There Are Snacks
Yes, you could hire an assistant to assist you, but then you’d have a hundred and fifty-one tasks. You could also leave the unwashed dishes stacked in the sink, let the bank foreclose on...
Ken Griffin’s Billions and Billions
When Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, recently filmed a one-minute video to announce a tax on pieds-à-terre, his appetite for class warfare was on full display. Background music evoked the “Succession”...
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan sees clues to the U.S. consumer in the pet food aisle
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan is one of few people who really know in real time how Americans are contending with rising inflation and high gas prices.
Keir Starmer set to unveil plans for new online protections for children
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is preparing to announce a package of measures Monday aimed at protecting children online, including possible restrictions on social media use for those under 16, according to a Downing...
Vance: Iran Will Destroy Nuclear Dust, Will Get ‘Benefits’ if They End Enrichment, Allow Strong Inspections
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Vice President JD Vance said that under the agreement with Iran, the highly-enriched material will be destroyed “and if they don’t get to a point...