Bill Pulte walked into Mar-a-Lago with a high school posterboard and sold Trump on 50-year mortgages. By Monday, the White House was walking it back. The real story isn't whether it's good policy—it's what this reveals about how policy actually gets made.

There are two competing stories we are telling ourselves about the Tik Tok baby formula thing.

Neither is the really interesting one.

Can the AI future that OpenAI promotes (and the money required to build it) be achieved without funding support from the US Treasury?

The line between a story that moves and a story that manipulates isn't always easy to see.

It's often even more difficult to draw.

Airport security lines might be the proverbial straw for the government shutdown.

Some people like Coke.

Others like the idea of it more than they actually like it.