Brooke Sample

Brooke Sample is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion and member of the editorial board. She was previously an editor at Metal Bulletin, Bauer Media Group and the Virginian-Pilot. Want to Make America Great Again? Buy TMTG because that’s essentially what you’re buying into. updated 4 hours ago Let’s call it what it really is: a debt subsidy for the wealthy. Cubans are hungry, tourism is suffering, the power is out and young people are fleeing: The country’s communist leaders are facing a reckoning. If your 8-year-old is begging for Olivia Rodrigo tickets, start by listening to the 21-year-old’s lyrics and learning about the show’s opening acts. Communicate simply, avoid bad people and don’t get wrapped up in the mythos of “big risk, big reward.” Prime users paid upfront for ad-free video streaming. The company then went back on its word. How does that reward loyalty? If you don’t open your eyes to the plausibility of defeat, then you run the risk of one day having to endure it. Anxiety-ridden Gen Zers and millennials are inundated with money messages that don’t reflect everyday reality. Users weren’t afraid to call out the dangers of the trend. Has the internet finally begun to evolve? Radical politics are taking hold in a country that has long prided itself on cohesion and shared prosperity. Bitcoin is way up for the year, something we didn’t see coming. The secret? Fintech doesn’t need exchanges. AI systems are becoming more sophisticated by the minute. Perhaps giving them more responsibility should give us pause. Kids who entered their freshman year of high school in 2020 are about to graduate, and they desperately need help. With every passing year, we have less faith in data, our leaders and each other. How did we become so broken? Plastics consumption isn’t going down. Companies are just importing what they need to make stuff. We’re struggling to protect kids from bad content, maintain our privacy and solve our mental-health crisis. An imminent volcanic eruption in Iceland is a dramatic reminder that human-driven pollution is driving climate change. Consumers say they’re afraid about jobs and inflation, and they’re not wrong. We’re also in unprecedented times. China’s leader has options ranging from coercion to invasion, with plenty of in-betweens. Big payrolls bought teams some big talent but couldn’t get them to the World Series in 2023.