Don Corleone’s character in The Godfather is one of Hollywood’s most memorable villains. He was a fictional mobster transplanted to New York City in 1901 as a child, orphaned by mob violence in his native Sicily that took his family. He went on to create a crime family of great power, wealth, and influence. The […]
Congress has spent more than 15 months trying to answer a fundamental question confronting America’s digital asset industry: Who regulates what? On Sept. 15, the Senate will face a procedural cloture vote on the CLARITY Act that could determine whether Congress gets any closer to an answer. The dispute surrounding the CLARITY Act includes legitimate […]
Right now, the Chinese Communist Party is waging a secret war against Chinese Americans who fled persecution in China. The goal? To turn public opinion and the U.S. government against the Falun Gong spiritual practice. Ahead of CCP Chairman Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, I’m asking you to stand with Falun Gong practitioners […]
The scale of the AI data center build-out is staggering. Capital commitments have already hit hundreds of billions of dollars and are forecast to top a trillion by 2029, larger than the GDP of most countries. Massive campuses spread over thousands of acres are planned. As a microchip executive recently put it, “This is the […]
Today’s surge in oil company profits amid the Iran-driven energy shock has understandably generated accusations of profiteering and price gouging. I spent the first half of my career in the oil industry, so I recognize my own industry sympathies. I am also a committed free-market capitalist. But I have a gut-level discomfort with the juxtaposition […]
President Donald Trump demands a 30-foot George Washington statue replace the "Infinity" sculpture outside the National Museum of American History in Washington.
New York City was not built by people who were scared. The whole point of the city has always been the speed and grit and ambition of its people. If there was a new tool that could build higher, move faster, or make someone more money, New Yorkers grabbed it with both hands. Which makes […]
There’s a lot of money to be made by defecting to the other side. Hopping across the aisle comes with fame, fawning New York Times profiles (that is, if the move is from Right to Left), and endless cable news hits. Just ask Liz Cheney or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But in a world of narcissistic headline-seekers, there are […]
