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Yale asked the right question. Now the rest of higher education owes an answer | Fortune
Earlier this month, Yale published the findings of a year-long faculty investigation into why Americans have…
Wall Street won’t like it—but Kevin Warsh at the Fed may mark the end of your chatty neighborhood chairman | Fortune
Until yesterday, many might have hoped that Warsh’s criticism of forward guidance was an ideal rather…
White House–backed USA Rare Earth makes $3 billion acquisition in South America | Fortune
USA Rare Earth, a Trump administration–backed miner and manufacturer, is expanding into a larger global player…
America's national debt is heading to 175% of GDP. Here's why no president—including Trump—has the will to stop it | Fortune
On April 3, 2026, President Trump released his proposed Fiscal 2027 Budget. It was two months…
Musk wanted to flee Delaware. This CEO wants to fix it | Fortune
But Delaware is hard to quit. While states like Nevada, Texas, and Wyoming are becoming more…
Palantir wants to bring back the draft just as the Selective Service preps for automatic registration | Fortune
In a 1777 letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson warned that although the Revolutionary War was…
Two Southwest Airline planes narrowly avoided a collision in Nashville on Saturday | Fortune
Two Southwest Airlines planes had to take evasive action to avoid colliding Saturday in Nashville after…
Data centers now account for half of all new U.S. electricity use, just as Americans start to sour on AI | Fortune
The U.S. just had one of its most energy-hungry years in recent memory, and the largest…
Billionaire Connie Ballmer just donated $80 million to support NPR after Trump cut $1.1 billion from public broadcasting | Fortune
After an exceptionally tough year for public media, Connie Ballmer, billionaire philanthropist and wife of former…
Spirit Airlines looked like it was in the clear of reemerging from bankruptcy, but rising fuel costs threaten its exit | Fortune
Spirit Airlines’ emergence out of its second bankruptcy in as many years is under pressure as…