Rubicon

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Miller served for a decade as chairman of Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that helps communities around the globe recover from disasters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Schneiderman said it is "highly unlikely that the US will choose to use nuclear weapons against Iran. It is the ultimate Rubicon to cross."

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

More recently, Hormuz and the Persian Gulf have been a Rubicon for American presidents, sometimes defining their foreign policy and taste for exercising military power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

“The world’s most important commodity has crossed the Rubicon, and the ripple effects are only beginning to spread,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, said in a Sunday note.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 8, 2026

Thus I have moral certainty that Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and moral certainty that Pascal accurately reported the Puy-de-Dôme experiment.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton