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Donald Trump didn’t invent American interest in Greenland, but he did put it on billboards. In August 2019, after Denmark’s prime minister called the idea of selling the island “absurd,” he canceled a planned state visit and posted a meme of a gold Trump Tower Photoshopped into a Greenlandic coastal town, captioned “I promise not to do this to Greenland!”1 It read, at the time, as a punchline — the kind of story that gets a segment on late-night television and then quietly disappears. I wrote about it that way in the original version of this piece. ...

🪞 Reflection We Always Have Options It’s easy to forget we have choices. The pace of life, the pressure of obligations, and the sheer weight of habit can convince us that the path we’re on is the only path available. But the truth is simpler and more freeing: we always have options. Sometimes those options are small, almost invisible. Choosing to go for a walk instead of doom-scrolling. Reaching for water instead of another cup of coffee. Deciding to listen rather than rush to reply. These are choices, too—small turns in the day that can shift our mood, our energy, even our outlook. ...

Last Saturday, as President Trump celebrated his 79th birthday with a military parade in Washington, D.C.—at a reported cost of $25–45 million—something far larger and more democratic was unfolding across the country. In all 50 states, in U.S. territories, and even abroad, the No Kings movement organized what may be the largest single-day protest in American history. Backed by more than 200 organizations—including Indivisible, the 50501 Movement, ACLU, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and the American Federation of Teachers—the protest united an estimated 4 to 6 million people across more than 2,100 locations. ...