Opinion Category: Business

Model and media personality Chrissy Teigen is the latest Twitter user to earn a unique badge of honor: being blocked by the President of the United States. On Tuesday, Teigen tweeted: “After 9 years of hating Donald J Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw.” Included in that tweet was a […]

After months of working behind the scenes, President Trump’s senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner gave a long-awaited defense of his interactions with Russians this week. As it turns out, that defense is barely moving the needle on Twitter. Kushner met with the Senate and House intelligence committees, released an 11-page statement and gave a public address […]

President Trump has directed his ire at foes and friends alike since assuming office, but his latest target is somehow still surprising. That would be Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of Trump’s earliest supporters during what was then a long-shot presidential campaign. POTUS has been fuming that Sessions recused himself from the ongoing Russia investigation […]

Given the annexing of Crimea and Kremlin meddling in the U.S. election, which has set off investigations preoccupying Washington, it’s no wonder that America’s relationship with Russia is in frosty waters. Gone are the days when George W. Bush looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and “got a sense of his soul.” Even former Russian leader […]

For most of the 2017 NBA offseason, the Cleveland Cavaliers appeared to be the best team in the Eastern Conference, but a recent trade request by star point guard Kyrie Irving has thrown that assumption out the window. Last week, reports emerged that Irving was tired of playing second banana to LeBron James and wants […]

Michael Phelps has bested the world’s greatest human swimmers, but on Sunday he put his skills to the test against one of the sea’s fiercest predators, a Great White shark. At least, that’s the way the Discovery Channel advertised Sunday night of its annual “Shark Week.” But instead of a face-to-face match between “Great Gold” […]

President Trump’s newfound interest in pardons has his supporters on the defensive and most of Social eyeing the situation skeptically. On Saturday morning, Trump tweeted, “While all agree the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.” The Washington Post […]

As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans scramble to find a solution to the healthcare debacle, Social is souring on their plan by the minute. From July 10 until July 21, sentiment related to “healthcare bill” showed brief glimmers of recovery, only to drop further and further. On July 10, 42 percent of responses […]

President Donald Trump’s inner circle has had plenty of shake-ups, but the latest addition and subtraction is getting dismal ratings on social media. Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci was named White House Communications Director on Friday, finally seeing returns on his early support of Trump. On the campaign trail, he rallied countless donors to the […]

O.J. Simpson was once the fastest player to grace the San Francisco 49ers’ roster, but not even the legendary running back could outrun the law after narrowly escaping its clutches in his infamous 1995 murder trial. He was jailed in 2008 for an armed robbery in Las Vegas, but after serving nine years, the Nevada […]

A Canadian dessert destination has stirred up Internet interest with a bizarre food combination. Ontario-based Sugar Sugar recently introduced a cotton candy burrito filled with ice cream. Storeowner Martin Lacombe told Insider he thought the cotton candy would melt, but with enough layering, that turned out to not be the case. Anyone daring enough to […]

Faux Mexican chain Chipotle is a bit under the weather — just like a bunch of its customers. More than 130 people have now claimed they were sickened after eating at the restaurant and at least one case of norovirus, a foodborne illness that dogged the company back in 2015, has been confirmed. In addition, […]

Over the weekend, we got a reminder that other countries around the globe aren’t as liberal as the West. American allies such as Saudi Arabia are highly conservative, and strict public dress codes are enforced. In Saudi Arabia, all women (including foreigners) are required to wear long robes known as abayas whenever in public. But […]

Game of Thrones fans are not thrilled after the show opted for an Ed Sheeran cameo during the season premiere last weekend. The British pop star showed off his singing chops in a brief scene, along with a couple of quick lines. Although that was the extent of his involvement, the reaction on Social was […]

The Texas state legislature, despite seeing the fallout from North Carolina’s divisive HB-2 “bathroom bill” (at least partially repealed last March), is considering legislation mandating that people use the rest room corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate — no matter what gender they identify as currently. Lone Star lawmakers will be discussing State […]

Self-driving cars might be the stuff of Uber’s dreams, but Elon Musk warned a panel of U.S. governors this weekend that the technology behind them could become a nightmare. In fact, unless regulations are imposed on artificial intelligence, it could destroy the job market, Musk warned. And in a capitalist economy that depends on a […]

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith has increasingly made his disapproval of President Trump known over the last few months, but last week he really let loose. While speaking to fellow Fox News host/Trump skeptic Chris Wallace, Smith hammered the Trump team for not immediately coming clean about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Kremlin-connected Russians. “The […]

Donald Trump Jr. is getting most of the scorn/attention in recent days for his role in organizing a meeting with Russians allegedly connected to the Kremlin to collect dirt on Hillary Clinton, but President Trump’s son-in-law isn’t exactly Mr. Popularity either. Jared Kushner, along with Trump’s then- campaign chieftain Paul Manafort, attended that fateful meeting […]

The penultimate season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, and among a strong cast of female characters, it appears Arya Stark is perhaps the most respected on Social. The younger Stark sister has a 63 percent positive score over the last 90 days, which far exceeds older sister Sansa Stark’s 50 percent. Only Gilly, […]

As HBO’s Game of Thrones embarks on its seventh season, Social has grown to hold negative views of many of the male characters. Ser Bronn of the Blackwater is the only one with high marks, boasting a 70 percent positive score over the last 90 days, but he has a low volume of responses. The […]

Blue Whales aren’t considered particularly dangerous by marine biologists, but in the turbulent waters of the online universe, they have come to represent a terrifying game may have already claimed two teenage lives in the U.S. The Blue Whale Challenge takes the form of 50 daily tasks involving listening to music, waking up at odd […]

In the latest sign that no one can agree on anything except that nothing can be agreed upon, Republicans have apparently turned on the idea of college. A new Pew Research poll indicates that while 55 percent of Americans still believe higher education institutions have a positive effect, only 36 percent of Republicans feel that […]

The world runs on coffee. According to the Los Angeles Times, about 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day. But now, new studies published in Annals of Internal Medicine on Monday suggest that those 2.25 billion cups are doing more good than anyone could have suspected. One study, which had been tracking people […]

For all of recorded history, humans have had a pretty well established method of ingesting chocolate, which is putting it in their mouths and swallowing. Their reasoning has been straightforward enough: chocolate tastes good. But an Orlando-based company called Legal Lean has a different idea—it wants consumers to snort chocolate. Legal Lean’s product, called Coco […]

Neon and wrestling action from the 1980s — are they the secret ingredients to a “Peak TV” hit? Going by the success of Netflix original GLOW, that’s a yes! Starring Mad Men’s Alison Brie, GLOW follows the story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a women’s wrestling circuit that reached legendary success after its premier […]

Chris Froome of Britain entered this year’s Tour de France as the odds-on favorite to pedal away as the winner, but he’s facing an uphill climb in the race’s early stages. Froome is the first back-to-back champion since Spain’s Miguel Indurain won five in a row from 1991 to 1995. That is, of course, unless […]

President Trump’s peculiar interest in Time magazine apparently spurred the hanging of fake magazine covers at some of his golf clubs. The Washington Post reported this week that at least four of his 17 clubs had at some point decorated their walls with a “March 1, 2009,” issue proclaiming, “The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” The […]

After two straight months of falling, consumer confidence ratings ticked up to 118.9 this week, the Conference Board announced. That came despite economists expecting a continued decline to 116, according to CNBC. As it turns out, if those economists had paid more attention to Social, they might have seen a bump on the horizon. In […]

Liberals in Congress were split back in March when Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Many feared that he would prove to be a conservative jurist cut from the same cloth as his predecessor. To Washington’s surprise, it only took three […]

Tennis legend John McEnroe might be well past his on-court prime, but he’s still making headlines by spouting off about anything and everything. While promoting his new book, But Seriously, on NPR this week, McEnroe was asked why he refers to Serena Williams as the greatest female player of all time rather than just the […]

A little more than two months after the release of the Samsung Galaxy S8, Social is holding steady with its support of the smartphone. Although updated figures haven’t been released, by May the S8 had already sold more than 5 million units internationally, proving the company has successfully navigated past a Galaxy Note 7 recall […]

Phil Jackson has racked up 11 NBA championships as a coach and two more as a player with the New York Knicks in the 1970s. But his most recent stint with the Knicks as president of basketball operations has gone from bad to worse, and the fans are not happy. Since assuming his executive role […]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s appointment was greeted with cautious optimism from Social, which offered sentiments like “I am pleased” and “very supportive” about the former Montana Representative. But that welcome might be short-lived after a Monday memo from Zinke raised the possibility of dramatically shrinking the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Social has already […]

Although it looked for a while like two tennis legends might be at the tail end of their careers, 2017 has proven to be a year of reinvigoration for Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. In January, Federer bested Nadal in a five-set classic at the Australian Open. It was his fifth victory at the event […]

Ad revenue is what supports a lot of content on the Internet—but could care less. Online advertisements get 66 percent negative sentiments on Social, with “bad” and “annoying” driving the conversation. But help may be on the way, courtesy of Google, which makes billions from ads but is planning to integrate an ad-blocker into its […]