Electric Daisy Carnival returns to Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend, drawing its annual wave of hundreds of thousands of attendees to what remains the flagship event on the global electronic…
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale arrived on Netflix in March, and its renewed audience activity this spring suggests the platform’s subscribers are finding it now, months after the theatrical run…
The AI bubble thesis rests on a timing error. Its proponents observe that hundreds of billions in capital expenditure have not yet produced commensurate GDP growth and conclude the investment is…
An accordion feature — also called an incremental facility — is a provision in a credit agreement that allows the borrower to increase the size of the existing loan facility without negotiating a new…
Agrément is the formal consent given by a receiving state before a sending state officially appoints an ambassador. No ambassador takes up post without it. The process is routine in stable bilateral…
A bench trial is a trial decided by a judge alone, without a jury. A jury trial is decided by a panel of citizens. The choice between them — where one exists — is among the most consequential…
A bill of lading (B/L) is a shipping document that simultaneously functions as a receipt for cargo, a contract of carriage between shipper and carrier, and — in its negotiable form — a document of…
A chargé d’affaires ad interim (often abbreviated CDA or chargé d’affaires a.i.) is the diplomat who temporarily leads an embassy in the absence of the ambassador. The position is common, often…
Deaccessioning is the formal process by which a museum, library, or archive permanently removes an object or item from its collection. It is the institutional equivalent of deciding to sell, transfer,…
A démarche is a formal diplomatic step — a direct approach by one government to another, typically to register an objection, deliver a warning, or press for a specific action. It is one of the most…