Six weeks before Election Day, the political clock is ticking, the diesel pump is running, and America’s bioeconomy is confronting an investment horizon measured in decades. It’s 6:30 in the morning here in Digestville, and time to read the overnight news releases, scan the headlines, check the latest project announcements, and see what the world’s […]
A young woman is tied to the railroad tracks. A villain, having twirled his mustache and completed his wicked work, has departed the scene. Rumbling nearer and nearer is a locomotive, its iron wheels screaming against the rails as its smokestack belches smoke into the desert sky. The heroine struggles. The ropes hold. The air […]
In Shenandoah, Iowa, where the corn rustles in the night, and in the towering timberlands of Washington’s Columbia River Gorge, the Senate Agriculture Committee’s proposed 2026 Farm Bill is a blueprint for survival. Between a statutory promise penned in Capitol Hill committee rooms and a real paycheck deposited into a small-town bank account lies an […]
West of Moscow, I once stood in a sand trap that wasn’t a sand trap. It was 1990, in Nakhabino, where the Soviet Union was attempting something almost as improbable as perestroika itself: building a championship golf course. I had gone on a journey not permitted to journalists at the time, for a story that, […]
On Virginia Key, just across the water from The Digest’s home base on Key Biscayne, Flipper is getting flipped. The old Miami Seaquarium has finally closed its doors. The dolphins are gone, the crowds have departed, and a new owner is actively rethinking one of South Florida’s most iconic pieces of real estate, where the […]
Bowman Draw, Converse County, Wyoming. April 21, 2026. It is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, and blowing. Nobody at the Rocky Road well pad needs a thermometer to establish this. The coffee is doing the measuring. A few men stand around Pete Martin Drilling’s rig with paper cups wrapped in gloved hands, partly for […]
NEW DELHI — The sun has not quite made it through the morning haze when the flight to Pune begins its departure roll at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Beyond the cabin window, runway lights recede into the gray-orange dawn as aircraft queue along the taxiways, jet engines whine in continuous idle, baggage tractors dart beneath […]
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK — The Digest is reporting from just off the catwalk, close enough to see the lights reflected in the runway and hear the last murmurs from the crowd. Elsewhere, Marc Jacobs has been stirring it up, and Ralph Lauren is preparing another expression of rugged American luxury. But we’re here for […]
Sitting on a rustic wooden deck at Palaphita on the edge of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, watching a couple of swan-shaped pedal boats glide lazily past with Corcovado looming in the background, you learn quickly that a proper Caipirinha is an exercise in absolute equilibrium. Fresh lime, a spoonful of sugar, crushed ice, and […]
Somewhere between adolescence and maturity, a line is crossed, yet no one hands you a diploma, rings a bell, or hosts a party — we know the moment has arrived because, one morning, everybody has stopped applauding your pilot plant and started asking whether you can deliver 10,000 tonnes on Tuesday. You’re a Big Boy […]
