Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne wrote on X overnight that Canada has withdrawn its controversial Digital Services Tax (DST) on Silicon Valley tech giants, such as Alphabet and Meta, in order to restart stalled trade negotiations with the Trump administration. It’s another win for President Trump, as his ‘Art of the Deal’ tactics continue to bring […]

Americans were stunned last week when foreign-born, self-proclaimed socialist Zohran Mamdani used CNN as a platform to denounce capitalism—the very system that transformed this country from frontier towns into a global superpower. Capitalism has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, built a middle class, and fueled rapid technological innovation—outcomes impossible under socialist regimes, as […]

You are receiving an unlocked version of today’s TMD. Happy Monday! We’re hosting our next Dispatch Premium Town Hall this Wednesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. ET on Zoom. This time around, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg will preview our newest initiative: The Next 250, a year-long discussion of America’s founding principles leading up to […]

Authored by Joe Brettell via UtilityDive.com, The promise, peril and possibilities of artificial intelligence continue to capture the cultural and business zeitgeist worldwide. Hardly a conference or long-form interview can be held these days without a panelist or pundit commenting on the technology’s implications for their profession. Yet despite being the hottest topic in every […]

U.S. Census data analyzed by Harvard University shows that a third of all U.S. households, whether they are buying or renting, spend more than the recommended one third of their income on housing and utilities and therefore qualify as cost-burdened. While the overall rate of households burdened by housing cost in the U.S. was 32.7 percent […]