For decades, the story of American higher education has been about women pulling ahead. Now a new study shows that shift is also reshaping who marries whom—and it’s women without college degrees who are paying the price. Fortune has been…
I have spent two decades teaching humanities and social sciences at Amherst College, and my classes have always been built on one assumption: that students would do the reading. Long, dense texts, week after week. Lately, that assumption has started…
In 2025, Americans placed roughly $166 billion in bets on sporting events. That’s more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries generated in revenue combined. The North American box office totaled $8.87 billion in 2025, which is…
Peter Cancro was still in high school when he took a leap of faith and took out a six-figure loan to buy a small sandwich shop on the Jersey Shore where he had worked since he was 14. By the…
A controversial, self-styled tech prophet had been searching the world for a place to set up a nomadic education community. Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer for Coinbase, thought he’d found one in Malaysia—specifically, in a largely uncompleted complex…
A week after Iran killed American troops in Jordan, crossing President Donald Trump’s red line for restarting all-out war, the U.S. military didn’t launch airstrikes on the regime. Friday came and went without an announcement from U.S. Central Command about…
AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of memory chips, for supplies to make its own semiconductors, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae Won said. Chey, while sitting on stage with Anthropic Chief…
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh apparently relishes a good debate, and the upcoming policy meeting is expected to see some robust back-and-forth. The Federal Open Market Committee convenes Tuesday and Wednesday, marking his second meeting as chair. After his first…
A Canadian woman was arrested and accused of espionage while working as an intern in the operational headquarters of the NATO military alliance, Belgian authorities said Saturday. Belgium’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said it launched an espionage investigation after NATO’s security services tipped off Belgium’s…
France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people to…