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Musk’s new ‘trillionaire’ status is a good thing, actually

I am not a huge fan of Elon Musk as a political activist or commentator. I think he’s made Twitter — sorry, X — worse. His support for the nationalist right in Europe has been ugly. His tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency mostly amounted to a missed opportunity and often descended into little more than performative vandalism. His personal life is not exactly consonant with my preference for bourgeois family values. Though, one can hardly accuse him of being a deadbeat dad. On the other hand, I am a huge fan of his accomplishments in business and engineering. He ...

Dybantsa hopes to go No. 1 in NBA draft

NEW YORK — For anyone seeking clues in the final hours before the NBA draft, AJ Dybantsa's Father's Day message to his dad apparently wasn't one. In the first of two pictures that went along with the posting on X, Anicet Dybantsa Sr. ("Ace") is holding young AJ in front of the White House. ...

Tkachuk among six heading to HOF

Keith Tkachuk waited more than a decade and a half from the end of his NHL playing career to get the call from the Hockey Hall of Fame. When it finally came, the timing only gave his family more reason to celebrate. Tkachuk was elected to the Hall of Fame on Monday, less than 24 hours ...

The ‘debate’ over global poverty continues

The new "Global Justice Report" by the World Inequality Lab in France -- which calls for caps on economic growth in rich countries, top income-tax rates of 90% and a World Sovereign Fund to redistribute wealth to the Global South -- has reignited one of the oldest debates in economics: How do we actually lift people out of poverty? The data have never left much question. The answer is economic growth. Nonetheless, many development economists have spent decades arguing that growth isn't enough or as important as development aid. The French report is simply a radical expression of a ...

Apology Tour: Americans abroad experience humility and humiliation

For Americans traveling in Western Europe this summer, it's a time of real humility, and some humiliation. You have to be quite the American exceptionalist to defend America these days, when what seems truly exceptional about our country is a presidency that is openly, even flagrantly, corrupt. It's a strident word to use, but it is, as the expression goes, what it is: the president and his immediate family pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits to Trump family businesses that can politely be called speculative, payoffs and protection money from foreign and domestic ...