In this issue

The Secret of DeSantis’s Success
Attack “woke” corporate America, ignore Trump, win grassroots GOP support.

Undoing the Big Mac Revolution
McDonald’s changed the way Russia did business. Then Putin invaded Ukraine..

The Great Compuppance

○ For some billionaires used to having their own way, 2022 was a reckoning

5 mins

Japan's Carmakers Are EV Laggards

○ Not one of them is among the world’s top 20 electric-vehicle makers, risking their futures

6 mins

At This CES, Pragmatism Reigns

After years of focusing on nascent technologies, interest shifts to areas with near-term profit

3 mins

China's Tech Truce

The country's technology giants are finding out how to operate within Xi's tacit rules

5 mins

FTX Was Targeting Main Street

○ Before it collapsed, the crypto exchange saw novice small investors as its future

4 mins

The End of 'Made in the USA'?

○ Los Angeles’s fashion industry is feeling the effects of a workers’-rights push

5 mins

The Education of Susan Collins

○ For the Boston Fed’s new president, the study of economics began during family vacations

3 mins

Muffling Mumbai

Activists battling the cacophony say they can show the way for other noisy places

3 mins

New York, Decarbonized

A 2019 city law threatens big fines for landlords who don’t clean up their buildings

5 mins

Can Ron De Santis Ride 'Woke' To the White House?

The Florida governor’s attacks on business leaders who promote progressive values are finding traction with the Republican grassroots

10+ mins

I'm Leavin' It

Before the invasion of Ukraine forced McDonald's to exit Russia, the company won millions of people over to American fast food, revolutionized the country's supply chain and changed Russian enterprise for good

10+ mins

THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE

A group of former SpaceX engineers is building a pizza-making robot and taking the project very seriously

10+ mins

WHERE TO GO IN 2023

As tourists of all types are set to spend a record amount on travel this year, it's time to go big-because you're definitely not staying home

10+ mins

In a World of Data, A Power Play Over Chips

In 2022 the whole world seemed to wake up to the idea that semiconductors, rather than data, are the new oil. A confluence of factors—from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the fallout from Covid-19—has turned a thesis into a widely accepted doctrine that’s spurring almost $100 billion in new state investment.

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