Justin Bieber’s Coachella Set Is a Masterclass in Nostalgia Justin Bieber has divided the internet after traipsing around a mostly barren stage in front of one of the largest crowds in Coachella history on Saturday. Donning a simple red hoodie, cutout boots an...

Love it or hate it, Justin Bieber's Coachella set couldn't have arrived at a more culturally perfect time. Nostalgia is everywhere, and his fandom genuinely wants to see him come out on top.

🔓 Read my latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com here:

and just when you think it couldn't get weirder, it does! my latest:

I did not go to Iowa because my tour was on a -15 windchill day and the guide wasn't allowed to have our group outside for more than a few minutes at a time. We kept needing to duck into odd buildings for her to say stuff and I couldn't feel my toes!

Health-Care Costs Are Forcing Terrible Trade-Offs Earlier this month, as I waited to pick up a prescription at my local CVS, I watched a man leave without his elderly father’s medication. The pharmacist had tried several tricks to lower the cost. It ...

On a recent visit to CVS, I witnessed a depressingly common scene: a man leaving w/out a prescription bc the cost was out of reach. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is about the trade offs people are making to afford health care, whether that's meds, ER visits, or insurance coverage itself. 🎁

Upper Colorado basin snowpack has deteriorated drastically in the week since I wrote this column. This is a massive problem for water availability in the months to come

Harry Styles Is Selling Sex — Even If Wall Street Won’t The pop star’s brand Pleasing treats pleasure as a form of well-being. But banks, regulators and social platforms remain wary.

Would you pay $300 on eBay for a Harry Styles vibrator? Fans would — and did.

Read my latest piece for @opinion.bloomberg.com on the pop star's wellness brand Pleasing and the ghost market Wall Street still won't touch:
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Eeep! The lovely team at @opinion.bloomberg.com organized a photoshoot for my daily newsletter.

If you're wondering: Yes, I got a blowout. No, my hair will never do this glorious flippy thing again. So please subscribe here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

“Our nation is back — bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,” President Trump said to start his #SOTU address.

📊👀 But what does the data say? See it all here: bit.ly/3OxrLC6

“.. Presidents of all stripes treat the State of the Union as if it’s some sort of endurance sport that’s going to land them in Guinness World Records.”

@jesskarl.bsky.social #SOTU
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Claude Can’t Pay for Your Retirement AI seems poised to drain our wallets, not leave us flush with cash for senior center bowling excursions.

on the era of multi-agent claudeswarms...

mass deprivation of food will do that to a country, yeah

Is Gen Z Romanticizing Cigarettes Again? Younger generations are witnessing more celebrities smoke on social media — and adults aren’t paying close enough attention.

To Gen Z, vapes have long been the villain. They never experienced the graphic anti-smoking ads of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Instead, cigs tick the nostalgia box for them.

How can we avoid a slide back? Read my take with @lisamjarvis.bsky.social & @taylortyson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

But: Haven't cigarettes always been aesthetic?

Old Hollywood used them all the time to signal style. That allure remains to this day — but what's different about the 2020s is that cigarettes are surfacing in digital spaces that parents and health officials aren't always privy to

Looking at the data, cigarette use is still at an all-time low among teens and adults. This is great news!

But as smoking becomes more normalized in pop culture, there's a real worry that the imagery will end up influencing behavior down the line

🧵Not a day goes by where I don't see a cigarette on my social feeds. They're at birthday parties, celebrity weddings and even in ... cakes (see pic).

Is Gen Z being influenced by these romanticized images? Let's find out ➡️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

In my latest newsletter for @opinion.bloomberg.com, we play a little game of “Spot the Difference" with two photos from the Oval Office taken 171 days apart.

What did you notice first? The mantle? The posture? Or maybe was the wardrobe change... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Taylor Swift Can Sell More Than a Song For luxury brands, being involved in viral pop culture moments can pay off in a major way.

Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album appears to be her flashiest yet, and fans are already fawning over the fashion moments of her showgirl era, says @jesskarl.bsky.social.

But beyond Swift, do pop culture moments actually matter for companies in the long run?

Maybe Joe Rogan Oversold the Texas Dream Comedians aren’t the only ones realizing that life in the Lone Star State isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Nobody wants to live in “a boiling pot of evil goo.”

Read @jesskarl.bsky.social ⬇️

Kind of surprised there isn't much talk about the huge amount of inflation in hot dogs in today's CPI report. Up 9% in June, the most since 2002:

#SkinnyTok Rebranded Eating Disorders Dangerously Fast Social media influencers mask their harmful content with seemingly-innocuous healthy buzzwords to reach a broader audience.

TikTok may have banned #SkinnyTok, but influencers pushing a "disciplined" lifestyle are keeping the restrictive eating trend alive. How can we police content that’s cloaked in euphemisms like “wellness” and “self-care”?

NEW column by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social and me:

Road To Nowhere A few years ago, David Byrne — a New York City mascot who once had a band — took a planned break during his Broadway run of “American Utopia” to ask everyone in the audience who had actually voted in ...

NYC's mayoral primary is going to be a test of voter turnout. I wrote about voting deadlines and how to register to vote — and why it's so important for millennials and gen z to actually show up this time. lindseyadler.substack.com/p/road-to-no...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

🍕 15 years ago today, a Florida man paid 10,000 Bitcoin for two large Papa Johns pizzas.

In today’s dollars, that’s roughly $1.1 billion, which is nearly enough to buy Papa Johns ✨ the company ✨

Let’s Abolish the 1 a.m. Meeting If you thought the Committee on Rules’ crack-of-dawn gathering was strange, just look inside Trump’s thousand-plus-page bill.

NEW from me for @opinion.bloomberg.com: If you thought the Committee on Rules’ crack-of-dawn meeting was strange, just wait 'til you see what's inside Trump’s thousand-plus-page bill
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

> @jesskarl.bsky.social
@opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Everyone Has a Substack. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The newsletter platform is headed for the same pitfalls as podcasts. But it still has time for a course correction.

To avoid that fate, Substack needs to reckon with its role in the information ecosystem, says @jesskarl.bsky.social.

Here’s how:

Substack is showing impressive growth with 5 million paid subscribers and counting 📈

But that raises concerns about potential incoherence and the spread of misinformation

Say Goodbye to Temu’s Cheap Thrills Trump’s closure of the “de minimis” loophole blew a maximal hole in the business plans of direct-from-China retailers.

Super Bowl ads are gonna look a lot different this year

the whelms are whelming

Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

Fed source to me: “It’s like a bank heist and the bank is America. Not really being hyperbolic to say control of those systems would allow an extremely fast collapse of the economy. Imagine it’s a plumbing system and someone takes a sledgehammer to the central pipe.”