Starling Bank has completed its first acquisition in four years with the purchase of Ember, a London-based fintech specialising in digital tax and accounting software for small businesses. The deal, subject to final closing conditions, will see Ember’s HMRC-recognised tax ...

Oxford University spin-out OrganOx, the pioneering transplant technology company, has been sold to Japanese medical devices group Terumo in a $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) deal. The acquisition, one of the largest ever for a UK medical technology business, underscores Britain’s ...

Matt Mittelsteadt In late July, the White House released its AI Action Plan. As I noted in part one of this series, policy has pivoted toward a much-needed emphasis on innovation while still striking a relatively balanced tone on risk ...

The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel.” ...

Rate cut to “stimulate” jobs? Powell: “while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers.” ...

The median sales price of new houses sold in July was $403,800, down 5.9% from a year earlier and the lowest price since November 2024. ...

Walter Olson So far as I can see, Trump’s Executive Order today denouncing flag burning is a legal nothingburger. Under the Supreme Court’s 1989 decision in Texas v. Johnson, famously joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, the First Amendment does not ...

The very definition of socialism: government ownership of the means of production. The US federal government now owns 10% of intel. ...

Our corrupt economic system was created by people born decades before the Boomers were adults. The boomers just got lucky in a system that created vast wealth inequality. ...

Though progressive reformers were met with mixed success, the theoretical shift away from natural rights left a lasting legacy in the American political landscape. ...