By: Dawn Buckingham, MD – nxtbook.com – September 2025 In the heart of Galveston, tourists continue to whisper of pirate Jean Lafitte’s hidden treasure. Legend tells of his gold buried deep beneath the sandy shores, a fortune waiting to be found since he was forced out of Texas in the early 1800s. Yet, today, new treasure has been unearthed in...

By: Kristen Waggoner – wsj.com – October 5, 2025 The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. The Anti-Defamation League last week retired its “Glossary of Extremism” amid backlash for having designated Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA as an extremist organization. The ADL isn’t alone in applying such inflammatory labels. Months before Kirk’s assassination,...

By: Patrick Coffee – wsj.com – September 26, 2025 AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say. Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll farms that spammed influential personalities like X owner...

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

President Trump’s newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the econom…

Exploring the decline of confidence in major institutions and the role of big business.

The uproar over the restaurant chain’s rebrand might appear trivial, but it carries a deeper significance. Source: Cracker Barrel and the Power of Conservative Boycotts

Explore how businesses betray customers through ‘woke’ policies and shifting costs.

A well-known American corporation that had been doing just fine suddenly embraces a sweeping redesign aimed to placate modern sensibilities.

President Trump has imposed a 15 percent tariff on most items in a trade agreement with the European Union, with pharmaceuticals excluded pending an ongoing U.S. investigation, but Trump is still p…