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Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Randi Weingarten: the fastest fix for the affordability crisis is a working-class tax cut

Elect a Congress that will put cash back in wallets.

By Randi WeingartenNovember 1, 2026

Christine Buttorff (left) and Petra W. Rasmussen (center), policy researchers at RAND, and Erin L. Duffy (right) of the USC Schaeffer Center

RAND and USC health researchers: Even big self-insured companies can’t rein in health costs

By Christine Buttorff, Petra W. Rasmussen and Erin L. DuffyNovember 1, 2026

Miriam Vogel, president and CEO of EqualAI

EqualAI CEO: Your AI assistant is acting in your name. Who signed off?

By Miriam VogelOctober 31, 2026

Ellen Zentner, chief economic strategist at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Morgan Stanley’s Ellen Zentner: Women are reshaping the economy. Markets haven’t caught up

By Ellen ZentnerOctober 31, 2026

Ben & Jerry’s CEO: democracy is on the ballot, and business must show up

By Jochanan SenfOctober 31, 2026

Joe Mohen, chairman of Neocortex Robotics, and Robert B. Cohen, chief executive of AI Economics.

Our AI agent experience: we scrapped the multiple $60,000 salary marketing jobs and hired one person at a far higher salary

By Joe Mohen and Robert B. CohenOctober 31, 2026

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Chart ranking 99 countries by their 2026 spike in food, housing and transport prices; 10 cross the IMF spike line and the U.S. sits just under it.

We’re not in a cost-of-living crisis — yet

By Anthony FoxOctober 31, 2026

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Let 17-year-olds change their minds. In the age of AI, it’s their best career move
By Matt vandenBergOctober 23, 2026

How Southeast Asia can realize its commercial promise amid geopolitical rivalry

How Southeast Asia can realize its commercial promise amid geopolitical rivalry

By Lynn KuokOctober 31, 2026

Anthropic’s IPO filing spends 69,800 words on AI’s risks to investors and says little about the risks to the rest of us

By Bhaskar ChakravortiOctober 30, 2026

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Jeff Raikes: the midterms’ real business risk are not which party wins, but whether the rules hold

By Jeff RaikesOctober 30, 2026

The nonprofit sector has a scaling problem

By John SimonOctober 30, 2026

Stavros Gadinis, professor of law at UC Berkeley Law School.

Berkeley Law professor: Anthropic’s IPO puts AI accountability to the test

By Stavros GadinisOctober 30, 2026

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Twilio CMO: We shrank 2 weeks of work down to one day with AI. Then the unsexy work began
By Chris KoehlerOctober 23, 2026

Scoring a decade of Wall Street and political-risk forecasts: being wrong wasn’t their biggest problem

By Erika MouynesOctober 30, 2026

The hidden financial engine behind America’s building boom

The hidden financial engine behind America’s building boom

By Monica NingenOctober 29, 2026

Chart showing enterprises running three or more AI model families rising from 68% to 81%, and closed versus open-weight model prices per million output tokens.

Rent the model. Own the harness. Own the network.

By Stephen MesserOctober 29, 2026

Anthropic’s IPO filing raises a costly question: Who can say no?

By Rohan SharmaOctober 28, 2026

Zocdoc CEO: will AI agents make your business more valuable or more vulnerable?

By Oliver KharrazOctober 28, 2026

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We served opposing presidents, but we agree on how to fix the data-center mess
By Neil Chatterjee and Michael S. ReganOctober 23, 2026

The AI payoff is real. The timeline is the problem

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, David Siegel and Stephen HenriquesOctober 28, 2026

Is Costco the next healthcare disrupter?

Is Costco the next healthcare disrupter?

By Jeffrey I. ColeOctober 28, 2026

Climate VC fundraising is on track for its worst year since 2015. That’s the best thing that could happen to climate tech

Climate VC fundraising is on track for its worst year since 2015. That’s the best thing that could happen to climate tech

By Jake RozmarynOctober 28, 2026

Samsung Electronics exec: the investments that endure build more than factories

By Paul ChoOctober 27, 2026

Dvir Ginzburg, founder and CEO of Encore AI

If you block an AI agent, you are teaching it to recommend someone else

By Dvir GinzburgOctober 27, 2026

The Netflix layoffs reveal what corporate America is getting wrong

By Paul HardartOctober 27, 2026

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Raised to swipe, ready to bet: How prediction markets exploit kids’ digital conditioning

By Amy L. KennedyOctober 27, 2026

Jay Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of Synack

NSA official turned founder: AI multiplies attackers’ expertise while defenders are still short on talent

By Jay KaplanOctober 27, 2026

Family discusses inheritance plans.

I helped a billionaire couple tell their kids they’d already received their inheritance. They didn’t take it well

By Christina WingOctober 27, 2026

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Former Trump official: intellectual property is the ‘great equalizer’

By Coke Morgan StewartOctober 27, 2026

A one-person quorum: no discussion, no dissent, no disclosure at the SEC

A one-person quorum: no discussion, no dissent, no disclosure at the SEC

By Andrew BeharOctober 26, 2026

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This open enrollment season, employees are looking at benefits differently

By Orla NixonOctober 26, 2026

Only 46% of employees trust their leaders. A BCG partner says the fix is simpler than CEOs think

By Deborah LovichOctober 25, 2026

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I didn’t move to Mexico to save money. I moved to buy back my future

By Lance B. FulfordOctober 25, 2026

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Americans say the economy is bad but keep spending. Don’t mistake the midterm polls for a forecast

By Kari ButcherOctober 25, 2026

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The experience economy keeps defying expectations. Maybe we’ve been looking at it all wrong

By Davis NoellOctober 25, 2026

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Every child will get AI. Not every child will get a teacher

By Dmytro KorchevskyiOctober 24, 2026

Rick Lazio: We’ve lost an auto race before, China’s EV climb should worry us

By Rick LazioOctober 24, 2026

Daniel Kjellén is CEO and co-founder of Freda

I sold to Visa for $2 billion. I could be on a beach right now, but I’m risking my own money to solve the problem that held my first company back

By Daniel KjellénOctober 24, 2026

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Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden's capture $100 million—but she says you don't need wealth to give back

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By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 31, 2026

The Pentagon and Britain are bracing for the power to go out. The ultrawealthy got there first, with backup generators, escape homes, and stockpiles

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By Sydney LakeOctober 30, 2026

‘It’s only when you see 49-ton trucks in China running on batteries that you realize how serious electrification is’: Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on Europe’s incumbency problem

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By Kamal AhmedOctober 30, 2026