President Trump to honor Iran strike flight team...

Speaking in Iowa on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the military flight team that launched the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities will be honored at the White House on July 4th.

Low-trust America

Good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods differ in many ways, but the most important may be the trust gap. You can tell a place is nice to live in because children leave their bikes on front lawns, and front doors are often unlocked. Happy countries also differ from unhappy countries in many ways, but trust might […]

The merchant of America gets married in Venice

The most famous merchant of America, Jeff Bezos, got married in Venice over the last weekend of June. While the world gawked at the $50 million price tag of the festivities, the 90 private jets of 200 fellow billionaires and Hollywood celebrities who descended on the Italian islands, and the gilded and garish parade of […]

Sex sells, even for sandwich shops

People are decreasingly literate and increasingly desperate. Pair that reality with a fast food coupon, and you have modern advertisement. For Jimmy John’s, sub sales are the goal of the beach read campaign accessed through its Summer Menu of Ultimate Temptation, or SMUT. Use a promo code to order one of the four items on […]

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