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President Donald Trump has always been a master marketer. He is particularly adept at lending his name to products and buildings, which has proven to be a lucrative business. Now in office, he’s bringing that same licensing mindset to the very act of governing. Last week, the State Department said it renamed the U.S. InstituteContinueContinue reading “Why the U.S. Institute of Peace is now the ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’”

Judge a book by its cover, and you might think that American Canto, the memoir by Vanity Fair‘s outgoing West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi, is destined to be a classic. The memoir, which chronicles Nuzzi’s drama-filled life and career as a political reporter in the Trump era, features a strikingly simple cover that serves asContinueContinue reading “‘American Canto’ was designed to be a modern classic”

You don’t have to choose between healthy eating and loving food if you follow ‘hara hachi bu,’ the Japanese 80 percent rule.  source https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/this-rule-from-japan-helps-you-eat-healthy-and-enjoy-food-dieticians-agree/91272958

Artificial intelligence is the most exhaustively covered technology since the dawn of the internet. As any tech editor will tell you, it can be challenging to find stories about AI that are not merely new but big. So when our editorial director, Jill Bernstein, forwarded me a pitch from journalist John Pavlus, who wanted toContinueContinue reading “The AI players to watch in 2026”

When Levi’s CEO Michelle Gass was in Japan last summer, she and chief product officer Karyn Hillman wandered down the street from the brand’s store in Tokyo’s trendy Harajuku neighborhood to a small, unassuming vintage shop called BerBerJin. They took the stairs down into its cavernous basement, where it keeps racks and racks of itsContinueContinue reading “How Levi’s sells Americana to the world”