The island republic is bouncing back from a difficult 2025, and investor confidence is high; however, structural issues remain. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Looking to bounce back after a disappointing 2025, the Dominican Republic’s economy still faces significant hurdles, including the conflict in the Middle East and internal…
I still think about the juicy condemnation of the design industry in Edwin Heathcote’s Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. In the heroic era of design, from the early to mid-20th century, it became a kind of cliché to put a claim on everything. Every single thing on Earth not produced by nature…
Ask any financial advisor what to do with a stock position worth more than half your net worth, and the answer is always the same: diversify. Yet founders are somehow expected to ignore that advice entirely, simply because the concentrated position happens to be the company they built. This double standard is exactly why founders…
Aesthetic dentistry isn’t some artsy guess anymore; it’s straight-up science with numbers and biology backing it. No more just trusting the ceramist gut feel for facial balance. Now clinics run hard math on how teeth play with your jawbones, gums, lips, everything. It’s basically smile design, lining up tooth sizes, lip moves, and skull setup perfectly….
Car rental in Austria can make a trip easier, faster, and more flexible. We can move from Vienna to Salzburg, reach Alpine villages, visit lakes, and plan ski routes without waiting for trains. Yet many tourists lose money because they book too quickly or miss small rental details. We often see the same mistakes. The…
Falling job-growth numbers drive more people to the gig economy to supplement their income. The preliminary and seasonally adjusted job-growth numbers for July issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on August 7, paint a picture of a continuing slowing economy, as the agency reported an overall loss of 23,000 non-farm jobs over the…
This article originally appeared in our World News Media Congress 2026 report. Read more about it, and WAN-IFRA Members can download the full report on our Knowledge Hub. “From day one, Brut made a choice. We would be a video-native media only,” said Etienne Mélou, Long-Form Editor-in-Chief and Producer at Brut. Since its creation in…
If you haven’t been following the sports news recently, know that there have been major ructions at the heart of the US college football system. In essence, the SEC – arguably the strongest and most influential conference in the collegiate system – has threatened to form a breakaway league, one that is free of control…
On 22 July 2011 Norway experienced its deadliest terrorist attack since the second world war. Fifteen years on, most Norwegians are clear about the facts surrounding that historic day: who Anders Behring Breivik was, and the two deadly attacks he is imprisoned for. Ask an AI chatbot this, and it will tell you. It will…
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you. Most of us install a dependency once and never look at it again. It does its job, the tests pass, and…