Walk down any grocery store aisle and you’ll see bottles of canola oil everywhere. It’s cheap, it’s marketed as heart-healthy, and chances are it’s sitting in your pantry right now. But lately, there’s been growing controversy about whether this ubiquitous cooking oil is actually good for us. Let me be clear upfront: this is a...
Here’s something you genuinely can’t make up: Brazil is bulldozing through the Amazon rainforest to build a massive four-lane highway—all to make it easier for people to attend COP30, the global climate summit happening in Belém next year. Yes, you read that right. They’re cutting down the very thing everyone’s supposedly gathering to save. The...
The Lone Star State Cements Permanent Business Advantage Texas has fundamentally reshaped the competitive landscape for American finance by enshrining unprecedented tax protections directly into its state constitution. Through three ballot measures approved by voters, the state has permanently banned capital gains taxes, estate and inheritance taxes, and securities transaction taxes—transforming what were merely policy...
What the Media REFUSED to Tell You About Occupy Wall Street Remember Occupy Wall Street? If you were anywhere near a major city in the fall of 2011, you probably couldn’t miss it. Protesters camping in parks, those “We are the 99%” signs everywhere, and a whole lot of debate about income inequality and corporate...
Countdown to 250: The Americans Building Tomorrow 244 Days Until America’s Semiquincentennial Day 244: Bruce Crandall The Pilot Who Flew Into Hell and Kept Coming Back Some days in American history define what courage looks like. November 14, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, was one of those days. And at the center...
Countdown to 250: The Americans Building Tomorrow 245 Days Until America’s Semiquincentennial Day 245: Turk McCleskey & Paul Balassa Two Veterans Who Turned Coffee Mugs Into a Mission Most people who start a business do it to make money. Some do it to solve a problem they’ve experienced. A rare few do it because they...
Day 246: Todd Connor The Veteran Building Bridges in a Divided Nation There’s a particular kind of courage that doesn’t involve jumping on grenades or charging into enemy fire. It’s the courage to step into the space where everyone is shouting past each other and say: “There has to be a better way.” Todd Connor...
Day 247: Mel Cohen The Veteran Who Turned Grief Into a Lifetime of Service Some people serve their country for a few years and then move on. Others serve for a lifetime, driven by something deeper than duty—by love, by loss, by a promise that can never be broken. Mel Cohen has been serving for...
The Marine Who Made the Ultimate Choice in a Split Second There are moments in life where character isn’t built—it’s revealed. Where there’s no time to think, no time to calculate the odds, no opportunity to consider the consequences. Just a choice that has to be made in the space between one heartbeat and the...
Countdown to 250: The Americans Building Tomorrow 249 Days Until America’s Semiquincentennial Day 249: Jake Wood The Marine Who Turned Disaster Into Purpose Most people remember where they were on January 12, 2010, when news broke that a 7.0 magnitude earthquake had devastated Haiti, claiming over 200,000 lives. Most people watched the tragedy unfold on...