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As Gen Z faces the white collar freeze in hiring, law and business school applications are soaring

Gen Z is rushing back to the classroom to dodge AI disruption as law-school applications have jumped 33% compared to this time last year.

By Jessica Coacci

October 28, 2025

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‘I can play dirtier than they can, you know’: Trump’s fury at a Canadian ad about Reagan, tariffs and trade

By Will Weissert, Seung Min Kim, and others

WASHINGTON, DC October 14: US President Donald Trump greets President of Argentina Javier Milei as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House on Tuesday October 14, 2025. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Like Javier Milei, Trump also can’t stop Argentina’s peso from falling — ‘Will the U.S. get paid back?’

AT SEA- OCTOBER 1: In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, The From front to back, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), Royal Moroccan Navy FREMM multipurpose frigate Mohammed VI (701), and Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6), steam in formation while transiting the Strait of Gibraltar, on October 1, 2025. Carrier Strike Group 12 is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operation to support the warfighting effectiveness, lethality and readiness of U.S. Naval Forces, Europe-Africa, and defend U.S., Allied and partner interest in the region. (Photo by Alyssa Joy/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

Pentagon orders aircraft carrier to Latin America, boosting U.S. military buildup in the region to more than 10,000 sailors and Marines

By Konstantin Toropin and The Associated Press

FILE – The Social Security Administration’s main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Social Security payments to go up 2.8% next year while polls show three-fourths of seniors think 3% isn’t enough to keep up with rising prices

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

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Dolly Parton once turned down a song request from Elvis Presley. That was just one business decision that helped build her $650 million empire

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Dolly Parton once turned down a song request from Elvis Presley. That was just one business decision that helped build her $650 million empire

October 8, 2025

Marc Andreessen

Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen says AI destroying jobs and making everyone poor is a ‘fallacy’—and even if that did happen, prices would drop

By Emma Burleigh

October 8, 2025

Murphy Door CEO’s small-business rule that turned the firefighter’s side hustle into $60 million in revenue

October 8, 2025

Sydney Sweeney

American Eagle CEO defends Sydney Sweeney campaign: ‘You can’t run from fear. We stand behind what we did’

By Nick Lichtenberg

October 8, 2025

Multimillionaire serial entrepreneur cried the first time she made ‘real money’—but not in a good way: ‘Wealth doesn’t erase your problems. It magnifies them’

Multimillionaire serial entrepreneur cried the first time she made ‘real money’—but not in a good way: ‘Wealth doesn’t erase your problems. It magnifies them’

October 8, 2025

Gen Z can’t afford to date—but Grindr CEO says the real problem is how apps have monetized romance

Gen Z can’t afford to date—but Grindr CEO says the real problem is how apps have monetized romance

By Orianna Rosa Royle

October 8, 2025

Air traffic control room

America’s air traffic controller shortage is even worse during the government shutdown—but job candidates can make $145,000 per year

By Emma Burleigh

October 7, 2025

Gen Z worker at office struggling

350 hiring managers gave their honest thoughts about Gen Z—and only 8% believe they’re ready for the workforce

By Emma Burleigh

October 7, 2025

Bernie Sanders

100 million jobs could be wiped out from the U.S. alone thanks to AI, warns Senator Bernie Sanders

By Preston Fore

October 7, 2025

John Ternus stands in front of an Apple Store

Meet John Ternus, the 50-year-old former swimming champ rumored to succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEO

October 7, 2025

John Chambers

Former Cisco CEO John Chambers navigated the dot-com crash—now he sees the same red flags with AI

By Jessica Coacci

October 7, 2025

A 19-year-old NBA intern landed a private meeting with LA Clippers CEO from a cold email—she told him ‘to do work that you can do for free’

A 19-year-old NBA intern landed a private meeting with LA Clippers CEO from a cold email—she told him ‘to do work that you can do for free’

By Orianna Rosa Royle

October 7, 2025

A CEO for all seasons

‘It’s always better to drink wine a year early than a day too late’: McKinsey’s CEO whisperers on successfully transitioning out of the top job

By Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra and Kurt Strovink

October 7, 2025

Robert McMahan

Colleges teach learning, but they’re not learning how to survive

By Robert K. McMahan

October 7, 2025

Photo of Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway says the key to landing jobs is be as social as possible: ‘70% of the time, the person they pick is someone with an internal advocate’

October 7, 2025

Man says Goldman Sachs put him through a gauntlet of 39 one-on-one interviews—and the decisive conversation was less than a minute

October 7, 2025

Introducing Fortune’s first-ever Most Influential Women Asia ranking

Introducing Fortune’s first-ever Most Influential Women Asia ranking

By Fortune Editors

October 6, 2025

Tired worker at their desk

These 2 kinds of employees are emerging in the AI-generated ‘workslop’ era—here’s why it may be better to write the email yourself

By Jessica Coacci

October 6, 2025

Photo of Zak Brown

Before the McLaren CEO got a $50 million payday from his team’s F1 championship, he was a high-school dropout who got his start on Wheel of Fortune

By Sasha Rogelberg

October 6, 2025

Photo of Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos tells Gen Z entrepreneurs to gain work experience before launching new companies: ‘I started Amazon when I was 30’

October 6, 2025

Author Jenny Han

How ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ writer went from library and Olive Garden shifts to building an empire with Netflix and Amazon deals

By Emma Burleigh

October 6, 2025

Jesse Itzler

This multimillionaire once cleaned meat trucks for $7 an hour, but a coffee shop encounter proved ‘You’re just one move away from changing your life’

By Preston Fore

October 6, 2025

two men in dark suits standing in front of a window

These co-CEOs swear by splitting the job: ‘The demands on a modern CEO are close to unsustainable’

By Amanda Gerut

October 5, 2025

Chess.com cofounder and chief chess officer Danny Rensch

How the cofounder of Chess.com went from being a child prodigy in a religious cult to building a 225 million player empire

By Emma Burleigh

October 5, 2025

MasterClass CEO David Rogier

MasterClass founder says CEOs who are not using AI daily are only 80% as good as their peers—he’s saved an entire day of work thanks to a custom GPT

By Preston Fore

October 5, 2025

leaders

How entrepreneurs outside the inner circle can break through

By Samantha Dewalt, Willy Das and Sarah Maokosy

October 4, 2025

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through

Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through

By Orianna Rosa Royle

October 4, 2025

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift prepares to take a ‘Showgirl’-themed victory lap as she eyes a $35 million haul and a second box-office No. 1

By Nick Lichtenberg

October 3, 2025

Graduate with his hands on his face

Already facing a student loan ‘financial reckoning,’ Trump’s changes to graduate students loans could make Gen Z’s diplomas a pricier gamble

By Preston Fore

October 3, 2025

Alexandr Wang

Gen Z billionaire Alexandr Wang tells 13-year-olds they should be more like Bill Gates, who snuck out of the house to code at night

By Jessica Coacci

October 3, 2025

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