One of the motives behind President Donald Trump’s obsession with the US owning Greenland is the territory’s rich holdings of rare earth minerals. Greenland is home to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of these rare earth reserves, including high concentrations of heavy rare earths like dysprosium and terbium, which are rarer and more expensive […]
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Spain’s Citizenship Proposal for Puerto Ricans Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington
Political and academic circles in Spain are examining a novel proposal to grant Spanish and, by extension, European Union citizenship to Puerto Ricans with ancestors born in Spanish Puerto Rico before 1898. Led by Spanish legal expert Rafael Maldonado de Guevara and pro-Spanish groups in Puerto Rico, the initiative seeks to address what he describes […]
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Biotech Is the New Battlefield
As a veteran who was wounded during a mortar attack in Iraq, I’m all too familiar with the fact that our enemies can hit us with little warning. I’ve seen firsthand what happens when we underestimate threats, and it never ends well for those who are sent into the fight. That’s why I’m increasingly concerned that America […]
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The Rule of Law Is the Foundation of Civilization
The men you see in masks on your television savagely arresting people may not seem like your affair. But they are your affair and mine, and that of every other American. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates outside of the law. It doesn’t disclose charges, and no one arrested sees a court of law. ICE […]
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: White Coke for a Red General
Put yourself in his position. You’ve just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years of brutal war that’s left nearly 27 million of your countrymen dead. You’ve just defeated the greatest military machine since Napoleon’s Grande Armée and driven one of history’s worst monsters to his grave. Naturally, it’s time to […]
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Schedule III Ends One War on Cannabis—and Exposes the Next One
The photo from last month’s Oval Office signing is everywhere: President Donald Trump at the Resolute Desk, pen in hand, declaring that cannabis should move from Schedule I to Schedule III. It’s being sold as the end of an era—as if the War on Weed just wrapped with a neat executive-order bow. It didn’t. By […]
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The Next Chapter for NASA Begins in 2026
Since its founding in 1958, NASA has occupied a special place in the American imagination. With immense successes such as the Apollo program and the Hubble Space Telescope, the agency often represents the absolute peak of human ingenuity and ambition. However, the space frontier in 2026 is not the one of the 1960s. Modern U.S. […]
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How Good Organizations End Up Paying for Bad Actors
For most organizations, the biggest communications mistake is not what they say in a crisis; it is what they failed to say in the calm that came before it. Trust is not something you can manufacture on demand when the headlines turn ugly. It is something you either built patiently over time, or you did […]
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Blue Shield of California Puts the Blue in Political Bribes
For one case study in MBA school, the teacher had us analyze when it was better for a hospital to classify itself as nonprofit or for-profit. The teacher took us through hypothetical cash flows for different procedures, then we calculated the bottom line. We learned that if hospitals could not earn enough profit margin on […]