The Supreme Court has decided thousands of cases over its 235-year history, but a small handful genuinely changed the country. From the 1803 ruling that gave the Court its power to strike down laws, t...
In 2026, the country is debating a 250-foot triumphal arch that President Trump wants built before the July 4 sestercentennial. The legal justification the administration is using is, of all things, a...
Sam Bankman-Fried is currently serving 25 years in federal prison for one of the largest financial frauds in American history. He also happened to be, by the cold math of venture capital returns, one ...
SpaceX just filed its S-1, and the document is exactly what you'd expect from a 24-year-old company that has become the most important private business in the world: enormous, ambitious, frequently su...
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness LP posted its Q1 2026 13F to the SEC on Monday, May 18, 2026, and it was the most-watched institutional filing of the quarter. In a single thre...
On June 13, 2025, the Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump's annual financial disclosure (OGE Form 278e) covering the 2024 calendar year. The filing ran 234 pages, including 145 pages...
On May 12, 2026, two of the most consequential financial disclosure documents of the Trump presidency landed on the U.S. Office of Government Ethics' desk. Both were OGE Form 278-T periodic transactio...
Stock market bubbles are easier to identify in retrospect than in real time. We are sitting in May 2026, with Nvidia having crossed a five trillion dollar market capitalization, with the Magnificent 7...
For 41,000 Americans living with Huntington's disease, there has never been a single approved treatment that slows the progression of their illness. Not one. By June 2025, after seven years of cli...
On Friday, May 1, 2026 - the day the 60-day War Powers Resolution clock was set to expire on the war with Iran - President Trump sent a letter to Congress declaring that the hostilities that began on ...
In early August 2025, Donald Trump publicly demanded the resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Two weeks later, after a face-to-face meeting at the White House, Trump bought 10% of the company instead....
At 3:00 a.m. Eastern on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines shut down. Seventeen thousand jobs are gone. It is the first major U.S. airline liquidation in 25 years, and the chain of events that produced it b...
On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund, Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund, with an initial capitalization of $25 billion. The catch? Canada is runni...
Today, April 29, 2026, marked Jerome Powell's final FOMC meeting as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. After more than eight years at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world, Powell will...
The James Comey indictment that landed today - making him the first former FBI Director to be charged with felony threats against a sitting President - has Washington reaching for the history books, a...