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Nicholas Thompson
I took over one of the most prestigious media firms while training for an ultramarathon. Here’s what I learned becoming CEO of The Atlantic

Should the skinny new CEO really be running 50Ks in a green singlet in Lane County, Oregon? Shouldn’t he perhaps be meeting with advertisers in New York?

By Nicholas ThompsonDecember 13, 2025
Lauren Antonoff
Once a college dropout, this CEO went back to school at 52—but she still says the Gen Zers who will succeed are those who ‘forge their own path’
By Preston ForeDecember 13, 2025
Ryan Serhant lifts his arms at the premiere of Owning Manhattan, his Netflix show
Ryan Serhant, a real estate mogul who’s met over 100 billionaires, reveals his best networking advice: ‘Every room I go into, I use the two C’s‘
By Dave SmithDecember 12, 2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days
By Emma BurleighDecember 12, 2025
Tensed teenage girl writing on paper
40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate
By Preston ForeDecember 12, 2025
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North AmericaAt least 2 killed and 8 injured hurt in shooting at Brown University with suspect still at large
By Kimberlee Kruesi, Alanna Durkin Richer, Jennifer McDermott and The Associated PressDecember 13, 2025
North AmericaU.S., Mexico strike deal to settle Rio Grande water dispute
By Fabiola Zerpa and BloombergDecember 13, 2025
InvestingBig 12 in advanced talks for deal with RedBird-backed fund
By Giles Turner and BloombergDecember 13, 2025
AIMicrosoft AI boss Suleyman opens up about his peers and calls Elon Musk a ‘bulldozer’ with ‘superhuman capabilities to bend reality to his will’
By Jason MaDecember 13, 2025
Danish military forces participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in the Arctic Ocean in Nuuk, Greenland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.
PoliticsDanish intelligence report warns of U.S. economic leverage and military threat under Trump
By The Associated PressDecember 13, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a joint press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2023 as European leaders visit the country 18 months after the start of Russia's invasion.
EuropeEU indefinitely freezes Russian assets to prevent Hungary and Slovakia from vetoing billions of euros being sent to support Ukraine
By Lorne Cook and The Associated PressDecember 13, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez often praises the financial and social benefits that immigrants bring to the country.
EuropeIn a continent cracking down on immigration and berated by Trump’s warnings of ‘civilizational erasure,’ Spain embraces migrants
By Suman Naishadham and The Associated PressDecember 13, 2025
EconomyMore financially distressed farmers are expected to lose their property soon as loan repayments and incomes continue to falter
By Jason MaDecember 13, 2025
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RetailRyanair CEO Michael O’Leary’s 2024 list of enemies: From the Wetherspoons boss to Boeing
By Ryan HoggDecember 31, 2024
Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs and Taylor Swift react as they see Mecole Hardman Jr. #12 of the Kansas City Chiefs following the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
SuccessFBI warns crime gangs are stalking NFL and NBA stars on social media—Travis Kelce and Luka Doncic among burglarized
By The Associated PressDecember 30, 2024
This combination image shows signage of Chipotle restaurant Feb. 8, 2016, Walmart store, in Walpole, Mass., Sept. 3, 2019, McDonald's restaurant on April 29, 2024, in Albany, Ore., a Target store sign is shown in Amherst, N.Y., Aug. 18, 2009.
RetailWalmart dominated, while Target spiraled: the winners and losers of retail in 2024
By The Associated PressDecember 30, 2024
SuccessJimmy Carter’s timeless advice for success in business: Having ‘proper respect for the people across from you whose opinions differ from yours’
By Ashley LutzDecember 30, 2024
Morgan Spurlock appears at the premiere of his film "Super Size Me," on April 22, 2004.
SuccessEntrepreneurs, celebrities, and politicians we lost in 2024: A month-by-month retrospective
By The Associated PressDecember 30, 2024
MacKenzie Scott
SuccessMacKenzie Scott’s game-changing philanthropy still mystifies nonprofits: ‘Her gifts are super generous, but unfortunately, they don’t provide long term sustainability’
By Thalia Beaty and The Associated PressDecember 30, 2024
Bernard Arnault, Ana Botín and Sharon White
FeaturesThe people we think shaped European business in 2024
By Prarthana Prakash, Alex Wood Morton, Oliver Smith and Ryan HoggDecember 30, 2024
FinanceWhere RFK Jr. got all his money and how he gained power in Trump’s circle
By Alena Botros and Jane ThierDecember 29, 2024
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 06: Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten attends A Taste of Asia in NYC at Madison Square Park on October 06, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Jared Siskin/Getty Images for Madison Square Park Conservancy)
SuccessMost restaurants don’t make it. Here’s how Jean-Georges restaurants have survived the test of time—and even a pandemic
By Jane ThierDecember 29, 2024
Pret CEO Pano Christou
SuccessHow Pret’s CEO went from a $3 an hour McDonalds worker at 16 years old to earning $5 million last year
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 29, 2024
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SuccessGen Z grad landed an internship by wearing her university baseball cap to her pizza joint job. Now she works at Cisco
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 28, 2024
SuccessMeet the millionaires living the ‘underconsumption’ life: They drive secondhand cars, batch cook and never buy new clothes
By Eleanor PringleDecember 28, 2024
SuccessBarbara Corcoran says separate bedrooms are her secret to staying in a happy marriage for 35 years
By Ashley LutzDecember 27, 2024
SuccessHow Revelry evolved from selling sorority gear out of the trunk of a car to building a $39 million wedding-wear empire
By Sydney LakeDecember 27, 2024
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.
EconomyTrump’s MAGA base is turning on Elon Musk after he said he wants to import more skilled workers
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 27, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg squints while talking
TechMark Zuckerberg insists the 5,000-square-foot underground structure in his secret Hawaii compound is not a ‘doomsday bunker’
By Dave SmithDecember 27, 2024
TechFormer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was Google’s first female engineer—only because she tried to delete a recruiter email and accidentally opened it instead
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezDecember 26, 2024
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RetailGen Z and millennials aren’t buying lab-grown diamonds because they’re ‘sustainable’ says Pandora CEO, they only care about price and design
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 26, 2024
The Peanuts pose in front of a Peanuts inspired Christmas window.
Success‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost never aired because CBS executives didn’t like it
By The Conversation and The Associated PressDecember 25, 2024
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TechScientist says the one thing everyone hates about AI is ultimately what helped him win a Nobel Prize
By Dave SmithDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessA year after Bayer got rid of bosses and asked staff to self-organize, its CEO says attrition has fallen
By Ryan HoggDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessAmazon CEO Andy Jassy: An ‘embarrassing’ amount of your success in your 20s depends on your attitude
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 24, 2024
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta.
CommentaryThumbtack CEO: Entrepreneurial advice from a founder more than 15 years in
By Marco ZappacostaDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessFormer Harvard president Larry Summers slams Ivy League schools for putting ‘social justice’ over excellence
By Preston ForeDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessBosses: Your Gen Z and millennial workers are cringing when you use these corporate buzzwords
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 24, 2024
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Success2024: The year the remote work dial shifted in European bosses’ favor
By Ryan HoggDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessWorkers won’t accept less than $81,000 for a new role right now—despite fearing they’ll be jobless soon
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 24, 2024
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SuccessBlake Lively’s Target hair care line saw sales decline as much as 78% after alleged ‘coordinated smear campaign’ by her costar Justin Baldoni
By Jane ThierDecember 23, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
SuccessAmazon and AT&T want an end to remote work: will 2025 finally be the death of WFH?
By Eleanor PringleDecember 23, 2024
Female recruiter looks at a résumé
LeadershipRésumé gaps aren’t the job killer they used to be but applicants still need to get smart about explaining their time away from the workforce
By Emma BurleighDecember 23, 2024
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EconomyTariffs are taxes and they were used to finance the federal government until the 1913 income tax. A top economist breaks it down
By Kent JonesDecember 12, 2025
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SuccessApple cofounder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976—today it’d be worth up to $400 billion
By Preston ForeDecember 12, 2025
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Success40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate
By Preston ForeDecember 12, 2025
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