Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Tesla launched its robotaxi service on Monday in Austin, with only a few cars involved but a great deal of fanfare. The discrepancy is best explained by one Wikipedia page: “List of predictions for…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For decades, American consumers, global investors, and international traders could interact productively in a shared economic order thanks to their mutual trust in one powerful instrument: the United States dollar. In the aftermath of…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A solitary false tweet on Monday morning caused several trillion dollars of stock market movement in about 15 minutes, which is cleanly among the top five most absurd things to have happened since Donald…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The chaotic, destructive, and dangerous “spontaneous disassembly” of much of the federal government now taking place at the hands of Elon Musk and his coding kids at the Department of Government Efficiency has been…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Buried among the many executive actions taken in the first three weeks of the new Trump administration is a Feb. 5 memo, signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, that must have Russian, Chinese, and…
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. If Thursday’s confirmation hearing is anything to go by, Tulsi Gabbard may well become President Trump’s first Cabinet nominee to get voted down by the Senate. It was a disastrous audition for the post…
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On Wednesday morning, a still-unknown assailant shot and killed the CEO of controversial health insurance company UnitedHealthcare outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where parent company UnitedHealth Group was about to hold an investor meeting. Even though that meeting was naturally canceled, UnitedHealth’s investors didn’t seem too perturbed. In fact, outside of a brief dip…