After 25 years in showbiz, Dakota Fanning is as booked and busy as ever
From the outside looking in, Dakota Fanning — as a household name for roughly two decades and an actor with...
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‘Your Excel Skills Suck’: The Power Users Turning Spreadsheets Into a Spectator Sport
For many people, Microsoft Excel is to be avoided at all costs. Maybe you lied about being “proficient” with the...
Forget New York, some of the most ambitious literature in America is happening in California
When the Booker Prize longlist was recently announced, it included a book with the memorable title “May We Feed the...
The Iranians have Trump right where they want him and suggest he seek ‘a dignified exit’
Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Bond vigilantes blow through Scott Bessent’s red lines. Does Iran have Trump cornered? The...
What to Know About the Pentagon’s Crackdown on Universities’ Foreign Research Ties
The Chinese national flag is pictured at half mast to mourn the death of China’s former premier Zhu Rongji at...
America has 3 billion words of legal code riddled with ‘policy sludge’
Daniel E. Ho is a professor at Stanford University, where he directs the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab. Every year,...
‘Guys, pause!’ CNN host breaks up skirmish over Trump-endorsed ‘dirtbag primary’
CNN host Audie Cornish had to break up an argument on-air Wednesday morning as pundits hurled insults over the value...
Rethinking the haphazard marijuana social experiment
Unfortunately, the structure of certain atoms makes nuclear weapons possible. Any list of other regrettable aspects of reality should include...
Microsoft AI’s CMO is leaving as the company rethinks consumer marketing efforts
Andréa Mallard is leaving Microsoft AI, where she served as chief marketing officer. Roger Kisby/Getty Images for PinterestMicrosoft AI's chief...
Hayden Panettiere ‘moved slow’ on set of final film amid ‘severe’ health issues months before death
Hayden Panettiere “moved a little slower for her age” on the set of her final film, 2026’s “Sleepwalker,” according to...
Terrified Trump officials flee in ‘dramatic exodus’ as pressure builds to bend law: report
The U.S. Treasury under Secretary Scott Bessent has seen a “dramatic exodus” of officials in President Donald Trump’s second term,...
We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn’t Spot It
“Would you like a glass of champagne?” Even though I’m painfully thirsty and nervous beyond belief, I decline the salesperson’s...
The battle over a tiny fish that runs the East Coast food web
Mark Robichaux, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is a fisherman and author. Something is going wrong along...
How to save $2,000 a month in L.A.: rent
Some Los Angeles-area renters may carry the secret shame of not owning their homes, but maybe they should be bragging....
There’s real logic beneath Trump’s split nuclear strategy
Victor Cha is the president of the geopolitics and foreign policy department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...
