President Donald Trump is acting like the CEO of USA Inc. Is it the strategy America needs?
This essay appeared in the Jan. 24, 2025 edition of the Fortune 500 Digest newsletter, which rounds up the headlines...
Days after saying ‘it’s a good thing’ for Mark Carney to sign a trade deal with China, Trump vows a 100% tariff on Canada for doing so
President Donald Trump continued to deliver trade whiplash, saying Saturday that the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on Canada...
Hurricane-level ice storm cancels over 9,000 weekend flights with half of America under warning
More than 9,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major...
This millennial founder got rejected 73 times before building a 9-figure coffee company. One more no, ‘I would have figured out how to sell a kidney’
Skepticism around higher education is growing. Amid a shaky job market, more than one-third of Gen Z graduates now say...
From $40 billion to $225 billion: Inside the Trump housing plan to radically change the mortgage bond buying plan
President Donald Trump’s federal housing finance director, Bill Pulte, quietly granted government-backed lenders the authority to nearly double a $200...
Three-way-talks between Ukraine, Russia and U.S. held in Abu Dhabi in diplomatic first
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region would be a key focus as negotiators from...
Trump’s National Defense Strategy declares ‘sharp shift,’ tells allies to take care of their own security
The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own...
‘I’m not sure about what’s going on with the United States’: Alaska’s Murkowksi says Trump rattled Davos about a ‘new world order’
President Donald Trump gives. And he takes away. Offended by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s increasingly assertive posture toward the...
Meet Bad Bunny, Super Bowl headliner: Son of a truck driver and English teacher used to work at a grocery store before becoming a SoundCloud superstar
It’s official: Bad Bunny will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Feb. 8. The Puerto Rican musician joins...
When companies take off like a rocket, how can founders steer the ship?
Fast growth is exhilarating. It is also unforgiving. Especially in AI, many companies are seeing hyper-growth, changing the leadership job...
AI productivity gains are making the rich richer, and they’ll wipe out jobs—but the IMF chief sees a silver lining for low-wage workers
Productivity gains from artificial intelligence are disproportionately boosting high earners, but an argument exists that the dynamic can lift low-wage...
Meet a 23-year-old electrician who was a ‘good student’ but skipped college to join Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution. He makes 6 figures
Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good...
Why Meta is positioning itself as an AI infrastructure giant—and doubling down on a costly new path
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network Threads two weeks ago to announce Meta Compute, a new “top-level...
Anthropic’s head of Claude Code on how the tool won over non-coders—and kickstarted a new era for software engineers
It’s been a good few weeks for Anthropic. The lab is reportedly planning a$10 billion fundraising that would value the...
Meet TikTok’s new U.S. CEO: Adam Presser, a Harvard business and law grad with an affinity for Chinese movies
Double Harvard grad Adam Presser is taking the helm of TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture—and he’s looking to turn a...
