American Pursuit

In one of the more surreal episodes of his second presidency, Donald Trump used his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to revive his long-standing fixation on acquiring Greenland  — but ended up confusing audiences and the markets instead. Trump has suggested repeatedly that the United States should own  Greenland, a vast Arctic territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, on the grounds of national security and strategic rivalry with Russia and China. That push has put him at...

One year ago, Donald Trump took office branding himself as the first “pro-crypto President.”  For an industry battered by regulatory hostility and incoherence, the moment felt historic. Campaign rhetoric promised clarity, innovation, and a reset of the U.S. government’s adversarial posture toward digital assets. Many in crypto wanted to believe that politics had finally aligned with technological reality. One year later, the results are hard to ignore — and even harder to defend. A widely...

For the first time in the nation’s history, the United States in 2025 is facing the zero or slightly negative population growth, a demographic shift that marks a sharp break from more than two centuries of consistent expansion. Data tracked by the U.S. Census Bureau and analyzed by independent demographers indicate that population growth has slowed to near standstill as deaths increasingly outpace births and immigration no longer offsets that gap. While final year-end figures are still being...