Business leaders look everywhere for inspiration, from eyeing their peers’ successes to tapping industry vets for insight. But Delta’s CEO, Ed Bastian, chose to form a close relationship with seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady to shape the airline giant’s…
There’s a boom in the economy: economics papers on the souring prospects of the recent college graduate in the AI-era economy of the 2020s. Harvard economists Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin found in September 2025 that the college wage premium…
President Donald Trump’s second-term appointments set a record for the wealthiest presidential administration in modern history, an early indication Trump had no problem welcoming business magnates into his inner political circle. Those individuals included Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with a…
The U.S. may continue to “obliterate” Iran militarily over the coming weeks—as President Trump repeatedly threatens—but Iran’s likelihood of maintaining some control over energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint increases daily and could ultimately equate to a “major…
The conventional fear about artificial intelligence and jobs runs something like this: the robots are coming for everything, and only the most creative, deeply human work will survive. A new paper by one of the world’s leading economists of automation…
The growing share of American office workers who have experimented with artificial intelligence in their day-to-day work have likely had a few moments of doubt as to their long-term job stability. But for all the improvements in AI over the…
President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, released Friday, calls for boosting total defense funding to $1.5 trillion—a jump that most economists say would represent one of the largest budget increases in American history, rivaling the wartime mobilization of World…
Iran shot down two U.S. military planes in separate attacks Friday, with one service member rescued and at least one missing, in a dramatic escalation since the war began nearly five weeks ago. It was the first time U.S. aircraft…
The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by…
Rick Steves, the Edmonds-based travel author and TV host whose empire of guidebooks, tours, and public television specials has made him a household name, took to Facebook on March 30 to celebrate the signing of the so-called “millionaires tax.” His…