Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Sen. Ruben Gallego had a present for Speaker Mike Johnson. And he had to give it to him right away. It didn’t matter that Christmas was more than a month away or that Gallego…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Michelle Obama enjoys a nearly unparalleled degree of public esteem. YouGov ranks her No. 2 on its list of most popular public figures, just behind Jimmy Carter. (Barack is No. 4.) In 2018 she…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2023, Changpeng Zhao—founder and former CEO of Binance, the biggest crypto exchange in the world—pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations. He served a four-month prison term and paid a $50 million fine. Zhao, usually…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I spent a few mornings of my summer standing in a Santa Monica parking lot surrounded by a small group of Tesla owners. The club (which has been going since 2019) meets every other…
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A lot of leaders are big-picture people who don’t sweat the details. Donald Trump takes the approach to the extreme: He hates details. He has never sweated a detail for a fraction of an…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This week has demonstrated that the tech “broligarch” who’s most influenced President Donald Trump’s second administration isn’t Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Marc Andreessen—it’s Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon who recently…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Anyone who’s tired of centuries of two-party dominance in American politics has probably dreamed of something coming along to shake things up. And earlier this month, when Elon Musk capped weeks of mouthing off…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. How seriously should we should take President Donald Trump’s threat to punish Russia with “very severe tariffs” if Vladimir Putin doesn’t make a deal for peace with Ukraine in 50 days? Here’s a key…