A federal judge late Thursday blocked the Trump administration from breaking ground on a towering memorial arch for 14 days.The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan halting the work represents a major setback for one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent projects in his vision to remake Washington.The decision followed a series of steps taken earlier Thursday by the government, including the final approval of the arch by the National Capital Planning Commission in an 8-4 vote after a 9 ½ hour hearing where scores of witnesses opposed the construction.The administration said the work could begin as…
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This is precisely what I have been warning about. Anyone who believes that electing Democrats will somehow resolve America’s mounting economic and political problems is seriously mistaken. Changing the party in power does not eliminate the underlying structural problems. What we may be witnessing is not the beginning of political reconciliation, but the opening stages of an escalating ideological confrontation that threatens to divide the nation even further. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is increasingly embracing policies that risk PUNISHING SUCCESS AND WEALTH rather than encouraging investment, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Higher taxes, expanded regulation, and aggressive…
Most products, services, and systems are designed around a composite of the “average” user. That sounds logical. If you are trying to serve the largest possible market, why wouldn’t you design for the middle? The dilemma is that the composite often fails to reflect how people actually live or experience the world. Those differences can expose where products, services, and systems work well, and where they do not. Design innovation comes from many places. Accessibility should be one of them. It is a powerful lens, revealing friction, hidden assumptions, and opportunities that are easy to miss when we design only…
Is this our Golden Age? One where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace (excerpt from a poem by Richard Brautigan) More than a decade ago, I began to engage in a series of wonderful philosophical discussions with Julio Frenk (then the president of the University of Miami, now the chancellor of UCLA). From our talks an idea emerged, a fusion of computing, technology, political systems, philosophy, economics, and governance. We manifested some of the thinking in Project Alexandria (2018)…
Every workday, Luc Rene puts on a shirt and pants branded with Amazon’s logo and heads to a distribution center, where he climbs into a van that also carries Amazon’s logo across its side to deliver packages with the company’s swoosh smile emblazoned on them. When he rings customers’ doorbells, he yells out, “Amazon.” But Rene is not technically an Amazon employee. He’s employed by a delivery service provider (DSP) that contracts out his labor. That could soon change in New York City, where Rene lives and works, if the City Council passes the Delivery Protection Act. The bill would…
I spent the first half of my career as the product manager at a software company. Product teams are constantly reviewing their products, assessing: What do our customers want? What changes should we make? Do we (maybe) need to retire a product altogether because it no longer serves its purpose? Most solopreneurs don’t take the same approach. They continue to push the same products or services, or tack on new items until they have a large suite of offers they have to maintain. We rarely take anything away. I’ve gotten into the habit of an annual review to make sure…
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, it’s been a long time. I attended you May 1997 conference in London and I found the transcript on your site. You indeed said: “The UK will still be part of the EU, but they won’t have the currency risk. Under those circumstances the pound is going to rise. ” Subsequently, you have acknowledge your connection at the time with our former PM Lady Thatcher. I also think you did acknowledged that you were called it to get Mercedes and Daimler Benz out of their short pound trade that they lost $1 billion following the newspaper forecasts that…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Claims are cheap now, and buyers treat them that way. In a 2026 survey of 1,862 technology buyers, 94% of those who used AI during their purchase fact-checked what it told them. Personalization is cheap, too. When software writes the first line, a detail about the buyer no longer shows effort. Real work the buyer can check beats a claim they can’t. Send a small piece of it, and make sure it is specific enough to prove a person looked. Free work doesn’t scale. In my business, free trial conversion…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has congratulated himself on the Democratic victory in the American midterm elections, declaring, “The process of the US’s collapse has accelerated.” Read those words carefully. He did not say America’s collapse had begun. He said it had ACCELERATED. Iran’s leadership believes the United States was already in decline and that the war in the Middle East has hastened that process. We have been warning about the decline of Western civilization for decades through our Economic Confidence Model. The Iranian regime is now openly celebrating the political and economic divisions that have emerged in Washington, but…
Key Takeaways Graphic design company Canva is undergoing a restructuring that will affect 1,271 employees. Canva will lay off some employees and change roles or relocate others. One CEO called Canva’s layoff announcement “a master class.” You have just lost your job. Can your employer help you find the next one? That’s the question thousands of workers face at Canva, a graphic design platform launched in 2013. This week, Canva said that it is laying off, changing roles or relocating 1,271 employees, or about 22% of its workforce. The move is a major restructuring that arrives in the wake of…