Microsoft’s mammoth AI bet will lead to over $100 billion in data center leases
As Microsoft investors get ready for quarterly earnings this month, there’s one particular metric that’s become increasingly important: finance leases. A finance lease lets a company pay for an asset over years, rather than all
East and Gulf coast ports shut down as thousands of workers go on strike
Tens of thousands of longshoremen went on strike at midnight ET, shutting down major ports along the East and Gulf coasts and choking off deliveries of everything from produce to auto parts. Consumers
Republicans keep inventing new ways to scapegoat immigrants
It is necessarily true that a crime committed by someone in the United States without authorization is a crime that would not have been committed had that person not been in the
Trump and his allies are not planning to concede another electoral loss
The reason that it is important to ask Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) whether he accepts that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election is not to establish whether Vance accepts reality. At
The one Vance debate moment that thrilled Republicans
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Many Republicans who watched the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night would say Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had the best of his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim
Vance used past GOP climate inaction to argue for climate inaction
Given the disastrous damage wrought by Hurricane Helene — a storm that rapidly grew to a Category 4 storm thanks to unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico — the issue
Vance probably ‘won’ the debate. But Walz might have gained more.
A lot of the conventional wisdom has it that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) had a better vice-presidential debate than Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night. And instant post-debate polling suggests
JD Vance is Trump 2.0
As Donald Trump consolidated power over the Republican Party in 2015 and 2016, his opponents, then still confident that he would not be president, mused at how much more dangerous a candidate
PepsiCo to buy tortilla chip maker Siete Foods for $1.2 billion
PepsiCo said Tuesday that it’s buying Mexican-American food company Siete Foods for $1.2 billion, marking the company’s first food acquisition in roughly five years. Like many food companies, Pepsi has been trying to shift
PepsiCo to buy tortilla chip maker Siete Foods for $1.2 billion
PepsiCo said Tuesday that it’s buying Mexican-American food company Siete Foods for $1.2 billion, marking the company’s first food acquisition in roughly five years. Like many food companies, Pepsi has been trying to shift