Nobody standing in the plaza in December is looking at the sculpture. They are looking at a tree, and behind it a limestone slab that goes up further than the phone can frame. But the block they are…
The number that produced the slowdown headlines was an export gain of roughly 24% year on year in July, down from about 27% in June. Customs also reported the trade surplus narrowing to $112.5 billion…
About ninety minutes in I checked how much was left. That’s the honest version of this review. The rest is me trying to work out why, because the idea underneath this film is good enough that it…
Retail sales fell 0.6% in July against a consensus of plus 0.1%, the steepest monthly decline since May 2025, and the tape read it on Friday as evidence of a consumer finally cracking. The composition…
The two names at the top of our list are SanDisk (SNDK) and Marvell (MRVL), and the reason is the same in both cases even though the businesses look nothing alike. Each one has spent the past year…
I’m not one of those people who treats every American deployment abroad as sacred. The joint exercises with South Korea are expensive. Seoul is a rich country with a shipbuilding industry that…
Look at what this building spends money on. A steel and glass dome ninety feet up. A drum of clerestory windows that lights nothing anybody needs lit. Four columns the width of a car. A marble…
Near the end of the first season of Silicon Valley, the Pied Piper guys get ready to go to TechCrunch Disrupt, and Monica gives them a heads up that plays as a throwaway line. The tech world is about…
A red double-decker swings through the Gran Vía junction at dusk carrying two campaigns at once. The upper flank runs the operator’s own branding beside the Madrid coat of arms and the city tourism…
Two Balthus canvases hang at right angles in the same room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the pairing is quietly strange. One is a twelve-foot alpine panorama full of people. The other is a…