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ESG Funds Quietly Die While No One Was Looking
Turns out investors prefer returns to lectures. A retrospective on the most expensive virtue signal in finance history.
Rachel Owens · 8 min read
PremiumWe Did the Math on the Green New Deal. It's Worse Than You Think.
Eight trillion dollars, zero working battery storage at grid scale, and a generation of blackouts on the menu.
Rachel Owens · 11 min read
We Were Energy Independent. Then We Chose Not to Be.
A short, painful timeline of how America gave away the most valuable strategic asset it had — on purpose.
Rachel Owens · 8 min read
The Quiet Small Business Boom No One Is Allowed to Mention
New filings hit record highs in red states. The same outlets that ran 'small business apocalypse' headlines have suddenly lost interest.
Rachel Owens · 6 min read
Standing With Israel Is Not Optional. It Is the Test of the West.
From Jerusalem to Washington, the line between civilization and barbarism runs through this war — and we should be honest about which side we are on.
Hannah Grossberg · 10 min read
The Working-Class Realignment Is Real — and the Right Is Winning It
Hispanic, Black, and union households are walking away from a Democratic Party that mistook lecturing for leadership.
Hannah Grossberg · 9 min read
PremiumInside the Campus Antisemitism Crisis Universities Refuse to Name
Jewish students are being told to hide their stars and their politics. Administrators are too busy issuing statements to notice.
Daniel Reyes · 12 min read
PremiumThe Abraham Accords Were Just the Beginning
Quiet diplomacy across the Gulf is doing what decades of State Department summits could not. The peace is being built in Hebrew, Arabic, and English — without Tehran.
Ari Levin · 11 min read
The Courage Deficit in Corporate America
For a decade, CEOs handed their companies over to activist staff and called it leadership. Shareholders — and the country — paid the bill.
Hannah Grossberg · 6 min read
PremiumBorder Truths Washington Spent Five Years Refusing to Say
An on-the-ground report from three small towns that built the policy the federal government wouldn't.
Maya Chen · 12 min read
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