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Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.

There are three types of China shock discourse. Each has a distinct temporal register. China shock 1.0 was a phrase coined by US academics in the 2010s to retrospectively summarize the impact on particular US labour markets, which they identified through painstaking empirical investigation. China shock 2.0 on everyone’s lips in Europe in the mid 2020s is an alarm raised by trans-Atlantic policy thinkers warning of a coming disaster which they project onto Europe’s ailing car industry. The third type of China shock discourse - commonly known as the “China squeeze” launched most recently by Indian economists Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in the pages of Foreign Affairs - mobilizes a different, more speculative temporal register: the counterfactual realm of alternate history. The China squeeze argument asks not what has happened, or what is going to happen, but what might have been. Specifically, what options for economic development might have been open to Global South economies like India or the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, had it not been for China’s spectacular industrialization since the late 1990s and the persistent competitiveness of China’s manufacture in low-skilled segments. Chatterjee and Subramanian’s argument is that whilst China has built a powerful position in electrical machinery and other high-skill manufacturing, which is now delivering China Shock 2.0, it also continues to run a trade surplus in low-skill, labour-intensive manufacturing. This surplus is large and has remained largely unchanged in fifteen years. Indeed, in the 2010s, in trade with low-income countries, China’s surplus rapidly increased. On their reading, this squeezes low-income producers in low-skill sectors in which they “should” be able to compete. Source: “China’s Mercantilist Squeeze on Developing Countries” Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian. Peterson Institute for International Economics 26-7 May 2026 Chatterjee and Subramanian’s wording is telling: (emphasis mine) The canonical trajectory of economic development in the post-World War II period is for countries to transition from agriculture to manufacturing, first in low-skilled manufacturing and then later on to high-skill manufacturing (Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi 2013). At the global level, this implies that high-income countries (HICs) that once specialized in low-skilled activities cede manufacturing export space to poorer countries that come along to occupy that space. In 1965, advanced economies accounted for about 60 percent of global value-added exports in four key low-skilled manufacturing sectors, i.e., apparel, leather, textiles, and footwear. Over time this share declined and began to be occupied first by the East Asian tigers and, beginning in the late 1990s, by China. Today China accounts for about 50 percent of the global market. The question is whether China, with its rising prosperity, is continuing to behave like its richer counterparts and ceding export space to poorer followers or to behave unlike them and continuing to occupy space. In terms of the conceptual maneuvers it performs, of the three China shock discourses, the “China squeeze” argument is by far the most ambitious. After all, it bases its critique of China on a counterfactual imagining of the world. Like any counterfactual argument, to construct this alternative reality it must rely on a heuristic model. To make their argument Chatterjee and Subramanian mobilize two key claims. The first reference point is the actual history of rich-country industrialization, what they refer to as the “canonical path”. The idea is that countries transition from agriculture to light industry and low-skilled manufacturing and from there up the value chain. To make this useful as a standard of comparison and a means to construct a normative standard, they adjust sectoral export shares for two factors: 1. the underlying level of economic development of the exporting country, as measured by national income and 2. the degree to which the sector in question is internationalized. The idea being that for a high income country to have a high export share in low-skill sectors is anomalous and even more so if that particular product is highly internationalized and thus suitable for being “conceded” to lower-income competitors. Where should this process end? Here Chatterjee and Subramanian introduce their second benchmark. Their normative idea of a global development path is one in which, in due course, low-skill manufacturing exports are distributed in proportion to a country’s share in the global labour force. They imagine, in other words, a world of proportional, polycentric global development without much national specialization in low-skill manufacturing. A useful benchmark is that, in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, a country’s share of world exports should be broadly commensurate with its share of the world’s low-skilled labor endowment. … In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, this would be true if value added per worker and export propensities, i.e., fraction of output that is exported, are the same across countries. It is this pleasant liberal vista of orderly global development, progressing towards a general distribution of low-skilled manufacturing against which they judge reality and conclude that the low-income countries are suffering a “China squeeze”. China is not exiting low-skill sectors fast enough Allowing for its gdp level and the degree of globalization, China’s share of low-skill manufacturing exports is far higher than it “should” be. Relative to population, its low-skill share of exports is far too high. That in turn yields the conclusion that huge numbers of jobs - the authors suggest tens of millions - are being hoarded by China. For the four sectors captured in figure 4, this excess in value-added exports is $110 billion in 2022. For all low-skilled sectors overall captured in appendix figure D.1, excess value-added exports amount to $365 billion. The crowding out of LMIC exports by China is therefore substantial. Both these claims have in common that they are strong structuralisms. The first is that development paths ought to resemble each other. The second is that broadly speaking as far as low-skilled manufacturing is concerned, all countries are alike. If the world currently diverges from the distribution of trade implied by these assumptions, if China is not following the advanced economy path and has huge exports, this must be the result of “policy”, which the authors then put in question as illegitimate or unfair. Thus the naturalistic construction of a canonical path leading to a “level” distribution of low-skilled manufacturing reveals itself to be a polemical tool. From the point of view of China shock polemics, this discourse is no doubt welcome. But as an account of economic history, it must surely be regarded as nothing short of bamboozling. Development paths do not follow a regular, natural sequence. As David Fishman put it aptly, “development is not a queue”. They are always and everywhere, through and through political. Development is not so much a process, as a project. Each such project is more or less well adjusted to its context. As Gerschenkron taught uneven and combined development implies differentiation rather than simple imitation on a single parth. It may be true that Europe and the US exited relatively early from low-skill work. But clearly technology has changed. As C&S themselves point out, China no longer enjoys a low wage environment. Do they really believe that such huge differences can be accounted for either by industrial policy, which as they admit does not operate powerfully in low-skill sectors, or by exchange rate manipulation? What is overwhelmingly dominant in explaining the persistence of “low-skill” manufacturing in China are surely the network effects of complex supply chains. Indeed the label of “low-skill” may miss the point. The degree of globalization which Chatterjee and Subramanian decide to conjure away in their model of the development path - to allow for the fact that Europe and American textiles exporters did not enjoy just-in-time logistics in the 1950s - obscures the point that the networks through which Chinese factories supply the world are themselves key parts of the low-skill industrialization project. China isn’t knocking out 1970s style “cheap”. It has redefined the entire product cycle. C&S’s casual reference to “T-shirts” is telling. In today’s “fast fashion”, there is weight on both terms. Fashion and fast. China’s success in delivering on both at unprecedentedly high speed and at unprecedentedly low cost, isn’t a low-skill operation at all. If we see development trajectories not as the serial repetition of the same, but as distinctive, crafted projects that cumulate in complex agglomerations of skill, technology and labor, then this explains why the assumption that low-skilled manufacturing should follow the distribution of population flies in the face of all experience. As countless cases attest, low-wage, low-income developed economies are not by themselves the makings of a competitive production base. As Leon Liao puts it quite fairly: “International trade has never been allocated according to population. A country’s population gives it no natural claim to an equivalent share of global exports." And the remarkable fact is that Subramanian alone and with co-authors has long been making this point, not to pillory China, as is the case of the tendentious _Foreign Affair_s and Peterson pieces, but to highlight the great counterpart to China’s industrial success, namely India’s relative failure. The much-quoted Foreign Affairs piece showed low-skill export shares only for China, not for India. If you put both countries in the picture as Chaterjee and Subramanian have done on other occasions, the picture looks like this. China is far above the line, but India, almost as large in terms of population, is no less anomalous, just in the opposite direction. As far as global populations are concerned, and the imagining of tens of millions of “squeezed” jobs, it is this Sino-Indian pair that account for a huge share of the action. What this graph reveals is not China’s cheating, but India’s “greatest development failure”, at least this is the argument made Arvind Subramanian, this time in co-authorship with Devesh Kapur, in their major book, A Sixth of Humanity. Independent India’s Development Odyssey which appeared with Oxford University Press earlier this year. In this highly critical work on India’s development, China is repeatedly evoked, not to criticize but as a benchmark against which to illuminate what India’s political economy has not delivered i.e. large-scale formal employment for hundreds of millions of citizens. Kapur and Subramanian leave no doubt, if you want to understand why China, not India was the main driver of manufacturing globalization from the 1980s, don’t look to slots opening up in the division of labour thanks to the liberal mindedness of advanced economies, look to the contrasting political economy of the Maoist PRC and India’s post-independence political economy. As Kapur and Subramian note: The great divergence between China and India did not begin in 1978 with the Deng reforms—it was well underway by then. In one of the great ironies of modern history, the conditions created by Maoism turned out to be a great launching pad for industrial globalization. As the comparison of India and China in 1980 makes clear, to imagine manufacturing would be equally distributed when populations are so differently endowed in terms of educational and nutritional is fanciful. Here is the data from Kapur and Subramanian, data which I explored back at the very beginning of Chartbook. As Kapur and Subramanian insist, the striking fact is that even as India’s growth accelerated from the 1980s, structural change has not. Formal employment in India lags woefully behind. Why? As Kapur and Subramanian note, the path-dependent impact of India’s poor early start was devastating. The list of factors they mention is long and weighty: We argue for a new five-fold explanation applicable at different stages of Indian history: in the initial stages, the legacy of two key pre-1980s policies, the neglect of agriculture and the strangling of the domestic private sector, were critical. The failure of broad-based agricultural growth militated against rural industrialization, which would have been devoted to satisfying local needs that would have necessarily been labour intensive. Then, when the boom came after 1980, the thicket of regulation and broader labour protections that were legislated prematurely in a nascent democracy, underpinned by a deep ideological aversion to private capital in general and big capital specifically, became a barrier to attaining the size that would be necessary to compete globally. Similarly, the reforms after 1991, while wide-ranging, did not quite encompass non-tradeable inputs critical to manufacturing, namely, land, logistics infrastructure and power. A combination of low investment (logistics infrastructure), regulation (land) and the continued monopoly supply by state governments (power), combined with residual socialism, kept costs at 75–100 per cent above efficient supply. These factors were compounded on the supply side by the government, which dominated the formal labour market and established exorbitantly high wages at the lower end of the skill spectrum. This made their employment in the labour-intensive sector by the private sector less attractive. Finally, when the services sector and its exports boomed, wages soared even further via a Dutch Disease effect: one successful tradeable sector killed and cannibalized another less-skilled tradable sector, namely, manufacturing. Thus, scarcity-inducing policies of the planning era, precocious democracy and a Gandhian aversion to size; inefficient, monopolistic supply of critical non-tradable inputs; the behemoth of government; and super-successful skill-intensive services successively undermined India’s unskilled labour employment opportunities. The employment failure seems to have been over-determined. … Less quantifiable but no less important are some of the sociological factors that have undermined manufacturing and factory jobs. Take the impact of the success of the IT sector—located in urban areas with better working conditions, such as air-conditioned offices, good schools for children and attractive entertainment options. It became a more attractive place for engineering and management graduates to flock to. … Consider manufacturing and female employment. Indian society makes it difficult for women to work, reflected in India’s unusually low female labour force participation (elaborated in Chapter XIII). Indian society, in particular the routine harassment of women in public spaces, makes it even more difficult for them to travel long distances to take up work.37 Combined with onerous regulations on creating hostels and dormitories for women—which, in turn, prevents multiple shifts of operation—factories need to be located in areas with a large female labour pool. While firms can take apparel plants to female labour or bring them to the plants by building large-scale dormitories, this raises costs. If there was a case for subsidies to encourage labour-intensive manufacturing, housing subsidies to build dormitories for women workers would be a good place to start. All of this meant, that when opportunities did open up, in part thanks to adjustments in China, India was in no position to take advantage. Here is the account of the 2020s from Kapur and Subramanian. It stands in dizzying contrast to the one-sided, “China squeeze” argument delivered in the Peterson and Foreign Affairs pieces: In 2022, for example, India’s share of global exports in clothing (the canonical labour-intensive sector) was 3.1 per cent compared to 32 per cent for China. This is extremely disappointing because China started vacating export space in this sector after the Global Financial Crisis as its wages started rising; it then vacated further space in the aftermath of geopolitical developments that led investors to seek alternative investment locations. Between its peak and today, China lost about 7.5 percentage points of global export share (worth about $43 billion in 2022); over this period, India’s export share remained stagnant at 3 per cent, while that of Vietnam and Bangladesh rose by 3.5 to 4 percentage points. China’s loss did not translate into any gain for India in terms of low-skill exports and employment. Put differently, when the conditions for dynamism and prosperity were established after 1991, and even more tantalizingly when the global export opportunities opened up, it was as if India was a high-wage economy and only skilled labour could benefit from the dynamism. It had converted its physically abundant unskilled workforce into an economically expensive resource, penalizing its use. It is not my mission here to argue for or against Kapur and Subramanian’s interpretation of India’s development trajectory. The point in this context is simply that the “China squeeze” such as it is can only be understood, in relation to the heavy burden of domestic constraints that Kapur and Subramanian so unsparingly enumerate. I am concentrating here on India because it is the great counterpart to China and the unspoken reference point of the “China squeeze” discourse. But the point is more general. Can anyone with a straight face suggest that the main problems afflicting the development of South Africa or Nigeria, the great centers of mass underemployment in sub-saharan Africa, are cheap competition from China driven by Beijing’s industrial policy and an undervalued RMB? Likewise, is the main problem of the American working-class the threat of Chinese competition or the manifest crisis of social reproduction in the United States itself? The point here, as in the discourse around China shock 2.0 in Europe, is to insist that we should not normalize the world and pathologize China, without actually investigating what is going on in America’s industrial wastelands, the German car industry, or India’s lopsided labour market. One-sided pathologization should be understood for what it is, a polemical gesture. Concepts like China shock and China squeeze are, what Reinhart Koselleck, following Carl Schmitt, would have described as “asymmetrische Kampfbegriffe”, or “asymmetrical counter-concepts” or “asymmetrical combat concepts”. If the function of arguments like the “China squeeze” is to alert elites in the rest of the world of the need to rejuvenate and energize their development projects, so be it. But let us see the resulting discourses as the mobilizing interventions that they are. Interestingly, a significant slice of China’s public sphere - the so-called industrial party - have been obsessed for the last twenty years with precisely these questions of counterfactual economic history. Since the mid 2000s, a massive online discourse developed around an alternative history in which Chinese techno-patriots were asked to imagine how they would proceed if they had the possibility of traveling back in time to transport modern technology into the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) thus averting the “great divergence” of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fantasy of course, but also a goad. The point was not directed at Westerners. The alternate history is dramatically nationalist, but few n the West had even heard of it until recently. The adherents of the industrial party are not liberal moralists. They don’t project natural ladders of international development and ask why others don’t cede space. They take the Realpolitik of global economic development for granted. Their pointe was directed against fellow Chinese. The rallying cry of the alternative narrative was this: Now that we are beginning to gain steam and push forward on our national development path, now that we are breaking out of the inferior position assigned to us even in the early years following WTO accession, do not lose yourself in humanistic imaginings about better futures. In the spirit of Deng, they called on China to embrace the hard truth of development. Perhaps one might of the Industrial Party as a cultural trend born out of desire for symbolic revenge against those who had inflicted the century of humiliation. In terms of the various temporalities of the “China shock” - retrospective, prospective and counterfactual - one might think of the Industrial Policy discourse as truly speculative, conjuring up the China shock that never was. Or perhaps one might better think of it as imagining a world in which a powerful China was no shock at all, but simply a defining fact of modern history. I love putting out Chartbook. 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Jul 27 • 7:57 AM EDT • Sports • ir.datavaultsite.com

Former Bengals draft pick joins AFC North rival

A former Bengals draft pick will line up against his old team next season

Jul 27 • 5:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

I’m a doctor. Here’s why I wear sunblock indoors.

Plus, four tips for buying an effective sunscreen.

Jul 27 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • washingtonpost.com

Tadej Pogacar opens door to Vuelta participation after making more Tour de France history

Pogacar secured a record-equalling fifth yellow jersey but is yet to taste Vuelta success

Jul 27 • 3:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

This Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibit shows the business of craft launched in Philly 150 years ago

“Workshop of the World” shows of the Centennial Expo kickstarted the region’s industrial craft legacy.

Jul 26 • 6:15 AM EDT • Business • whyy.org

Political consultant Clint Reilly built a lasting legacy

Clint Reilly helped elect a who's who of California Democrats and trained generations of political consultants. He was a genius in the business of campaigns.

Jul 26 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com

Automakers are entering their decluttering era

Legacy automakers are pruning vehicle lineups and building cars with fewer parts. They're facing rising costs and cheaper Chinese competition.

Jul 26 • 5:31 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Ty Simpson agrees to rookie deal with Rams

Jul 25 • 2:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The next chapter: My 50th reunion at Harvard Business School

At this reunion, the conversation was about legacy and what we want to do with the years we have left, and what we hope to leave behind.

Jul 25 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • sandiegouniontribune.com

Mike Vrabel’s second act will define his Patriots legacy

Reaching the Super Bowl once proves you're a good coach. Sustaining excellence—proves you're great. Which one is Vrabel?

Jul 25 • 5:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Gresham health clinic identified as measles exposure site

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Gresham health clinic has been identified as a measles exposure site, Multnomah County officials announced on Friday. The facility was identified as the Legacy Go Health U…

Jul 24 • 9:40 PM EDT • Health • koin.com

Measles exposure location confirmed at Gresham urgent care

Measles exposure alert in Gresham: Multnomah County says visitors to Legacy Go Health Urgent Care on NE Glisan July 23, 4 to 8 p.m., may have been exposed.

Jul 24 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • katu.com

Patrick Kane Rejoining Blackhawks Is Not Just A Legacy Decision

Jul 24 • 6:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Honoring a legacy of compassion in health care: OHIO announces the creation of the Anita Chesser Potts Memorial Scholarship

The new scholarship fund creates a lasting tribute to the late Anita Potts, one of the early graduates of Ohio University’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Jul 22 • 5:04 PM EDT • Health • news.ohio.edu

⚽️ Y! Sports AM: Lasting legacy

The 2026 World Cup is gone, but those five magical weeks across the U.S., Canada and Mexico won’t soon be forgotten.

Jul 22 • 8:21 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Model the Transformation You Expect Employees to Deliver

Leaders must model the transformation they expect others to deliver. Yet many leadership teams undermine their own ambitions by promoting agility, experimentation, and innovation while continuing to govern through legacy processes that reward predictability and risk avoidance. Employees notice the disconnect and follow what leaders do, not what they say. The most successful transformations occur when senior leaders personally sponsor the organization’s most uncertain initiatives, devote meaningful time to change, embrace learning, and demonstrate a willingness to change course when evidence demands it. Executives can test whether they are truly modeling the by examining how they spend their time (the calendar test), how they manage ambiguity as an executive team (the uncertainty test as a team, and whether they openly retire initiatives that no longer create value (the cancellation test).

Jul 22 • 8:15 AM EDT • Business • hbr.org

Margaret Thatcher’s legacy: is Andy Burnham stuck in the past?

PM says Iron Lady caused Britain’s problems but is his ‘neoliberalism’ critique just ‘1980s karaoke’?

Jul 22 • 8:07 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com

TECfusions, a Rapidly Growing Developer and Operator of AI-Ready Data Centers and Power Infrastructure, Signs Business Combination Agreement with Apex Treasury Corp.

TECfusions is positioned where accelerating AI data center demand meets a scarcity of power-secured capacity. Company ethos centered on the fusion of ‘Technology, Environment, Community’ focuses on delivering AI-ready capacity while advancing environmental redevelopment and local community outcomes. Unique adaptive reuse strategy designed to convert legacy industrial sites into AI-ready, power-enabled data center infrastructure, accelerating deployment in power-constrained markets. The Transacti

Jul 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Bucs' Trotter Named Training Camp ‘Rookie to Watch’

As Todd Bowles faces a make-or-break season, second-round pick Josiah Trotter emerges as the heir to Lavonte David’s legacy in a revamped Tampa Bay defense.

Jul 22 • 1:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

California’s Business Tax Credit Cap Needs More Targeted Changes

California’s scramble to rework its business tax credit cap shows that the state is directionally correct to resist subsidy bidding wars but wrong to rewrite the economics of credits already issued after companies have already relied on them, writes Andrew Leahey.

Jul 21 • 4:30 AM EDT • Business • news.bloombergtax.com

50 years of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards: How NCAA champions built the Honda Cup’s legacy

Forty-six women have won the Honda Cup. Forty-four won a national championship or reached the Olympics. Inside 50 years of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards.

Jul 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • ncaa.org

By Scrapping Studios and Doubling Down on Decades-Old Franchises, Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never Recapture

Xbox's big reset has scrapped studios building original ideas in favour of doubling down on legacy IP - but how will it find its next big franchise if it only focuses on the old?

Jul 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Neosphere of The Deep-blue Sky: Legacy announced for Switch, PC

Kogado Studio has announced Neosphere of The Deep-blue Sky: Legacy, its second remastered title in the Aoi series following Tristia: Legacy. It will launch for Switch and PC via Steam and Windows i…

Jul 19 • 11:31 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com

England's huge World Cup payday revealed after France victory

The Three Lions secured a major payday after defeating France in a thrilling third-place playoff

Jul 19 • 6:13 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘Good Trouble Lives On’: ICE protestors rally at Liberty Square Park

Utahns joined in on a national movement called “Good Trouble Lives On” Saturday, honoring former Congressman John Lewis and his legacy of nonviolent civic action, education, and advocac…

Jul 19 • 1:28 PM EDT • Politics • abc4.com

Denny Sanford leaves legacy in healthcare and beyond

Philanthropist, businessman, and Sanford Health namesake T. Denny Sanford has died age 90. He donated nearly $2 billion to Sanford Health.

Jul 18 • 12:05 PM EDT • Health • news.sanfordhealth.org

Surrogacy Scandal Upends German Politics

Jens Spahn, a top leader of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party, resigned his post after announcing having had a baby by surrogate, which is outlawed in Germany

Jul 18 • 10:07 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Opinion | The ‘Devil’s Bargain’ at the Heart of American Politics Now

This week: the Todd Blanche hearing, Lindsey Graham’s legacy and progressive infighting.

Jul 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Will Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ independent streak define his legacy?

Sometimes aligned with his party and at other times apart from it, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has spent much of his tenure charting his own course. That independent streak carried through fights over labor policy, rural anger over wolf reintroduction and ultimately his decision to commute Tina Peters’ sentence, a move that reshaped his standing […]

Jul 18 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradopolitics.com

Video: Opinion | The ‘Devil’s Bargain’ at the Heart of American Politics Now

This week: the Todd Blanche hearing, Lindsey Graham’s legacy and progressive infighting.

Jul 18 • 6:55 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

LeBron James Commands NY Attention at Fanatics Fest

LeBron James takes center stage at Fanatics Fest in New York, cementing his legacy as the city's newest sports icon per ESPN NBA reports.

Jul 18 • 2:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Horse Trading Days cancels Saturday entertainment

Entertainment at Horse Trading Days Saturday night, July 18, has been canceled due to expected severe thunderstorms and high winds, according to a Facebook post. An announcement posted around 1 p.m. S...

Jul 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • butlereagle.com

Mechanicsburg business owner killed in crash, leaving behind a lasting family legacy

Jul 17 • 6:04 PM EDT • Business • local21news.com

Michigan football trending for elite legacy recruit out of Ohio

Michigan football is trending to land Ohio legacy recruit Asa Burch, a four-star edge rusher from Warren Harding.

Jul 17 • 2:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

A Legacy of Belief: Celebrating 30 Years of BCSD’s National Youth Sports Program

For 30 years, BCSD’s National Youth Sports Program, guided by the leadership of retiring Youth Services Supervisor Lewis Neal, has provided Bakersfield students with opportunities to build confidence, leadership skills, healthy habits, and lasting...

Jul 17 • 1:30 PM EDT • Sports • news.kern.org

How MLS Plans to Take the World Cup Baton Forward

MLS Commissioner Don Garber on the World Cup, Messi in the final, and his 28-year legacy at MLS.

Jul 17 • 11:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

More Trust and Estate Disputes Are Becoming Business Litigation

As more families transfer business interests, commercial real estate, and other complex assets, trust and estate advisers may need to brush up on partnership law, corporate governance, contractual rights, tax planning, or real property law, FBFK Law’s Holly Gilani says.

Jul 17 • 4:30 AM EDT • Business • news.bloombergtax.com

Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Komani classic rises again from Paris sewers and Joan of Arc is a boss

Evil Empire creatives explain how it is playing to today’s ‘metroidvanias’ and honouring the original’s legacy with much fresh slaying to be done

Jul 17 • 3:00 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com

CORE Business Interiors honored for building a family legacy

CORE Business Interiors is recognized for family leadership, business growth and community service in the Central Valley.

Jul 16 • 6:45 PM EDT • Business • thebusinessjournal.com

Goldenvoice's Ocean Way fest gets Olivia Dean, the Killers to Santa Monica. Take the E, there's no parking

"There’s a creative legacy here that’s unlike anywhere else," said Goldenvoice's Nic Adler. "Ocean Way Festival is our opportunity to celebrate that history."

Jul 16 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

At the Podium: Duce Robinson’s Comments from ACC Kickoff

The 6-foot-6 All-ACC receiver details passing on the NFL to refine his route tree, embrace a fourth starting quarterback, and cement a lasting legacy in Tallahassee.

Jul 16 • 12:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

Jul 15 • 3:59 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com

U.S. Mint making $1 gold-colored coin with Trump's image

The coin commemorates the country’s 250th anniversary and honors "the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said

Jul 15 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

U.S. Mint making $1 gold-colored coin with Trump's image

The coin commemorates the country’s 250th anniversary and honors "the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said

Jul 15 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame Inducts Eight into 2026 Class

Grambling's Legends Sports Hall of Fame inducted its 18th class Saturday inside the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center, honoring eight former student-athletes whose achievements helped shape the rich athletic legacy of Grambling State University. The Class of 2026 includes Reginald Baldwin and Aa

Jul 15 • 12:04 PM EDT • Sports • news.gram.edu

Player availability report, presented by Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute: Orlando Pride vs Boston Legacy FC

Here is this week's player availability report, presented by Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, for Wednesday's home match vs Boston Legacy FC

Jul 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • orlandocitysc.com

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday

LegacyHive is a PoC for a Windows ProfSvc privilege escalation flaw that works after the July 2026 update, but the public build needs extra credential

Jul 15 • 7:02 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com

Shane Ryan defends Rory McIlroy ‘legacy’ question after internet blowback

The final of golf’s four major championships begins later this week at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, and players are fulfilling their pre-tournament media obligations. As one would expect before an Open Championship, golf fans were hanging on every word six-time major winner Rory McIlroy gave to the press. But it was one…

Jul 14 • 9:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Lindsey Graham's career and influence on American politics

Learn about the life and legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham

Jul 14 • 3:56 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

WATCH: GOP senators rally behind Lindsey Graham's sister as successor, remember late senator's legacy

GOP senators rallied behind Darline Graham Nordone after Gov. Henry McMaster appointed her to fill her late brother's South Carolina Senate seat.

Jul 14 • 1:14 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Scenes From Rise Family Office's Athlete Enterprise Symposium

Professional athletes joined investors and executives for conversations on entrepreneurship and financial legacy.

Jul 14 • 1:06 PM EDT • Business • dmagazine.com

Lindsey Graham’s legacy: Israel advocate, Trump ally, Iran war supporter

Jul 13 • 5:04 PM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

Lindsey Graham Was Once Named the 'Guardian of Small Business.' These Are the Defining Moments of His Legacy

The senator helped shape policies that lowered corporate tax rates, playing a key role in the wider business landscape.

Jul 13 • 12:07 PM EDT • Business • inc.com

NBA analysts dive deeper into evaluations of Darius Acuff

Now that Darius Acuff has played some NBA games, experts have more to go on

Jul 13 • 11:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Steelers Great Gives Blunt Take on Aaron Rodgers’s Legacy

Pittsburgh Steelers great Jerome Bettis gives his take on what Aaron Rodgers's legacy is at the end of his NFL career. The post Steelers Great Gives Blunt Take on Aaron Rodgers’s Legacy appeared first on HEAVY.

Jul 13 • 1:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Why Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death could impact Texas politics

Following the death of longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), political leaders across the country, including in Texas, are reflecting on the senator’s legacy and what his death could mean for the political landscape ahead of the midterm elections. READ MORE: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/why-sen-lindsey-grahams-death-could-impact-texas-politics/

Jul 12 • 10:55 PM EDT • Politics • kxan.com

Sen. Lindsey Graham leaves political legacy in New Hampshire

Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died Saturday night, leaves behind a political mark in New Hampshire through years of campaign visits, media appearances, and personal friendships.

Jul 12 • 7:50 PM EDT • Politics • wmur.com

Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

It’s the origins of the Neural Engine in Apple Silicon.

Jul 12 • 12:27 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Thank you and goodbye to Knight's game-changing legacy

Heather Knight leaves behind a legacy to English cricket that goes far beyond the numbers on the field, writes Ffion Wynne.

Jul 12 • 10:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Fans protest decision to exclude O.J. Simpson from new stadium's Wall of Fame

His legacy is overshadowed by his arrest in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

Jul 10 • 4:56 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com