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Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy life as a boy-mom. Having three sons, my days are filled with excited talk of superheroes, villains, and video games. In summertime, epic battles play out in the backyard until dinner. On family movie nights, “Star Wars,” “The Hobbit,” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy run on infinite loops. Life is never boring.Although the “Boom! Crash!” of their younger years has now shifted to more nuanced language like “Bro! That’s sus,” I still can’t help but feel, as our family of five gathers for meals, that I’m often the odd “man” out.Their shared…

I was one of the first Twitter “influencers” back before it even had an app. When Facebook launched pages, I was the first gay journalist to have one after they helped me set one up, complete with the blue “verified” checkmark that actually meant something before they started selling them.I grew another Facebook page to over a million followers, and the Library of Congress archived my old blog as an important part of the internet.I spent 20 years helping to build the online journalism ecosystem into what it is today. So why can’t I find a job in digital journalism…

Marie Phelan said she had never heard of MDMA before spotting a flyer seeking veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.Now, she says the psychoactive drug more commonly known as ecstasy or molly has changed the trajectory of her life. “My experience of MDMA was that it just cracked my heart wide open,” said Phelan who enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1999 and was deployed to Iraq in 2003.”I was carrying this big heavy rucksack and I just put it down on the beach and I started unpacking it one little teeny tiny thing at a time and…

Piotr Swat | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAn experimental lung cancer drug from Akeso and Summit Therapeutics reduced the risk of death by 34% in a closely watched late-stage trial, according to results released Sunday. When combined with chemotherapy, the drug kept people with squamous non-small-cell lung cancer alive for a median of four months longer than the standard combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy, a result that was statistically significant, according to an abstract released Sunday ahead of a presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting. The Phase 3 trial was conducted in China, and a global Phase…

Thirteen years ago, I flew from Atlanta to Las Vegas for a work conference. I thought I was going to learn how to build a business: strategies, contacts, maybe some motivation. I did not know I was walking into the room where I would meet the man I would eventually marry.I was 25 and tired of dating men who looked good on paper but didn’t feel right in real life. From the outside, some of the men I dated seemed impressive: money, status, ambition, the kind of résumés many women are told to want. But something was always missing.So when…

California vs. TexasIt’s one of America’s longest-running debates: Which state is better, and in particular, the better place to live?The pandemic turbocharged this discussion, as people moved from California to Texas in droves. Recently, my colleague Alcynna Lloyd reignited the debate for BI readers.She wrote about a family that left California for Texas in search of a lower cost of living. Instead, they found themselves unhappy with much of the experience and are now planning a return to the Golden State.The piece struck a nerve.Readers left nearly 700 comments on our recently launched comments section, which gives you the chance…

Rita Ferro at Disney Upfront 2026.Courtesy: Disney Co.As Rita Ferro, Disney president of global advertising, prepared to take the stage at the company’s recent upfront presentation, she had actor Paul Anthony Kelly on her mind. Kelly recently portrayed John F. Kennedy Jr. in the limited FX TV series “Love Story,” and met Ferro at an earlier event. After a fangirl moment that included an iPhone snapshot, Ferro requested that Kelly introduce her at the annual pitch to advertisers.”That’s the Disney difference: trust, innovation and unrivaled fandom. Not just with the stories they tell, but how they operate as a company,”…

Some people placing food or grocery delivery orders are asking their drivers: Did you get my tip?Delivery services from DoorDash to Walmart Spark often ask customers at checkout whether they want to add a tip for the worker delivering their order. High-profile recent settlements have drawn customer attention to the possibility that the full amount may not reach the delivery driver, prompting some customers and drivers to strike up conversations about tips.Four delivery drivers, three who work for Spark and one who works for DoorDash, told Business Insider that the conversations about tips have become more common over the past year.Both Spark and…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christiane Schroeter, a 49-year-old professor of innovation and entrepreneurship and leadership strategist in San Luis Obispo, California. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I moved from Limburg, Germany, to the US in 1999 as an exchange student for my M.S. degree before returning to Germany to complete additional graduate work. I returned to the US in 2001 as a Fulbright Scholar to pursue my Ph.D. at Purdue University.After I earned my Ph.D. in 2005, I decided to build my career and my life in the US rather than return…

New York City has gone YIMBY.Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his new housing plan on May 26, with an agenda to build 200,000 new affordable homes, convert existing hotels and office buildings into low-cost apartments, and support the city’s tenants against “bad landlords.” He has endeared himself to the pro-housing, “yes in my backyard” cohort.The scale of the mayor’s affordable housing plans is ambitious, especially for a city as populous and expensive as New York. But City Hall has some tangible inspiration. As Mamdani repeated in a series of press conferences this week, NYC needs to be more like Austin and…