There's a resource race underway that will define the geopolitical landscape for the next several decades, and most people outside of government and mining circles have barely heard of it. It's not about oil. It's not about natural gas. It's about the minerals that power the technologies we've decided are essential to the future: lithium for batteries, cobalt for electronics, rare earth elements for wind turbines and electric motors, copper for virtually everything electrical

For decades, the healthcare industry has been one of the most insular, resistant-to-change sectors in the economy. Regulation, entrenched interests, and the genuine complexity of delivering medical care have created an environment where innovation is slow, costs are high, and the patient experience has been, to put it charitably, an afterthought. That's changing, and the agents of change aren't coming from within the industry. They're coming from technology, retail, and consu

When people think about mergers and acquisitions, they think big. Mega-mergers between household names. Multi-billion-dollar deals that make front-page headlines. The acquisition of a social media company by a billionaire. These are the deals that dominate the conversation. But the most significant M&A activity in 2026 isn't happening at the top of the market. It's happening in the middle, among companies with revenues between $10 million and $500 million. And this middle-mar

After three years of corporate tug-of-war, the return-to-office battle has reached something like a resolution. But it's not the resolution that either side wanted. The fully-remote evangelists predicted that offices would become obsolete, that companies would embrace distributed work permanently, and that the old model of commuting to a cubicle five days a week would be relegated to history. The fully-in-office traditionalists predicted that the remote work experiment would