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by Victoria Johnson. Church was “the emblematic artist of the middle decades of America’s nineteenth century,” according to The New Yorker. This “lively” biography shows how he “did for America what John Constable and JMW Turner had done for Britain,” painting landscapes that defined the nation’s image of itself. Buy ...

In this special episode of Compound Interest, Semafor’s Chief Commercial Officer Rachel Oppenheim sits down with Todd Heimes, Vice President and General Manager at our season sponsor, Amazon Business. Todd and Rachel sit down to discuss how Amazon Business is reshaping how organizations buy. Heimes has been scaling Amazon since ...

The Scene It failed in a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Then, it bowed out of its pursuit of Roku, according to people involved in the sale process. Netflix is increasingly showing up in the marketplace for giant deals, marking a territory for the company that historically said it prefers ...

Wall Street is looking favorably on the prospects for a US-Iran peace deal. Oil prices fell to a three-month low Monday (although still above pre-war levels) and several major banks cut their price forecasts. Natural gas prices could also see relief if Qatar follows through on plans to return to ...

Tim’s view The US-Iran de-escalation deal may bring oil tanker traffic back to something resembling the pre-war norm, but the global energy trade will never be the same. Oil prices will very likely fall — Goldman Sachs lowered its fourth-quarter Brent forecast from $90 to $80 per barrel on Monday. ...

The News The Trump administration’s Ebola quarantine facility in Kenya is drawing criticism from public health experts who warn it could undermine the broader virus response. Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency physician and professor of public health at Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014, told Semafor that the Kenya ...

Americans who listen to partisan podcasts and influencers are more likely than others in their political party to believe that citizens with “radical views” should be able to protest the government — as long as they’re not violent. New Gallup analysis of a 2025 study with the Kettering Foundation found ...

There are “several investigations” ongoing relating to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a source familiar with the situation told Semafor, shortly after Newsom accused President Donald Trump’s Justice Department of targeting him for political reasons. But the investigations emerged out of Sacramento and not from Main Justice, according to the source, ...

Andy’s view The US is aiming for the stars again. To win its superpower competition with China, that may be its best bet. Last week’s SpaceX IPO created an instant $2 trillion-plus market behemoth, larger than the top-10 listed Chinese technology companies combined. Later this year, OpenAI and Anthropic are ...

Wael’s view Nine minutes into the 2026 World Cup’s opening match at the Estadio Azteca, Mexico’s Julián Quiñones controlled a loose ball and drove it past the South African goalkeeper. The crowd erupted. What most of them probably didn’t know was that the man who had just set the world’s ...