Investors will soon have another way to bet on the hottest stocks from Nvidia Corp. to SpaceX, without trading a single share. CME Group Inc. will launch single-stock futures Monday, allowing investors to hedge or speculate on more than 50 of the…
The United States paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire.…
Without warning, the dapper French gentleman groaned like a bullfrog and collapsed on the Bendor Island boat pier in the South of France. Every season of HBO’s highbrow whodunit The White Lotus begins with a murder. So it somehow felt…
When life feels chaotic and unmanageable, it often feels easier to just procrastinate or ignore snowballing problems. But one of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world says that’s not the real cure for anxiety and stress. “I…
The Trump administration has invested roughly $26.7 billion across 30 equity or quasi-equity deals, headlined by a 9.9% stake in chipmaker Intel that’s now worth $42 billion. Others include $400 million into rare-earth miner MP Materials to loosen China’s grip…
In April, I warned in these pages that companies letting AI absorb entry-level work were quietly accumulating a talent debt they didn’t yet see. Since then, new evidence is putting the problem in plainer sight. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index surveyed 20,000…
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…