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My husband and I have worked together for the last 15 years. People ask us how we keep our marriage healthy despite being together 24/7. For us, it’s easy, but like marriage itself, it does take work.This is the second time in our 25-year marriage that Paul and I have worked together. The first time, we were both employed by the same large biotech company in Southern California, although in very different roles. Today, we run a small consulting business.Indeed, those two scenarios are night and day different; however, both raise similar issues about respecting boundaries and checking our egos.The…

The 1920s brought huge changes for women. During World War I, they proved they could handle the jobs left by men who’d gone to war; the right to vote helped solidify some women’s new position in society; and the fashion pendulum swung away from constricting corsets and bustles toward shorter, looser dresses and skirts.However, despite this period of immense change, American beliefs surrounding race remained firmly rooted in the past. Black, Asian, Latina, and Indigenous women were still subjected to overt racism, violence, and prejudicial lawmaking that hindered — and even barred — their access to the rights and privileges…

Nissan’s logo is illuminated on a prototype of its new all-electric Ariya crossover. Nissan’s Z Proto performance car is reflected in the vehicle’s grille, while a redesigned Nissan Pathfinder SUV sits in the background.Michael Wayland / CNBCNissan Motor plans to introduce a new type of hybrid to the U.S. market that drives like an all-electric vehicle but is powered — not driven — by a traditional gas-powered engine. The new Nissan “e-Power” is called a series hybrid. It uses the engine as a generator to power the vehicle’s electric motors that then propel the vehicle. It operates like emerging extended-range electric…

Last year, our family of five moved interstate. We’d been living in Bright in country Victoria, Australia, for four years, and I wanted to move closer to my parents on the Gold Coast in Queensland.The Gold Coast is Australia’s sixth-largest city, home to more than 680,000 residents. Bright, on the other hand, is a small town of less than 3,000 people, so the move was a massive leap.As we packed up our lives in Bright, I had a perpetual bubble of anxiety in the pit of my stomach. Although I was excited for the move, I was also extremely nervous…

A mini burger, mini fries and mini beer, Clinton Hall’s “Teeny Weeny Mini Meal”, is pictured next to a regular-sized combo on Dec. 8, 2025 in New York City. Approximately one in eight American adults are currently taking drugs from the class of GLP-1 agonists that are now popular for weight loss, according to a November poll by the non-profit health policy tracker KFF. Some in the restaurant industry are taking note.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesThe cost of GLP-1 drugs is falling, and pill versions are hitting the U.S. market. For restaurant chains and snacking giants, higher adoption…

In 2023, Lin Koh, her husband, and their two young children moved from Santa Clara, California, to France to help care for her husband’s mother, who lives in France and has Alzheimer’s.”We were observing her decline, and we made the call,” Koh told Business Insider. The Bay Area’s high cost of living also played a role. They hoped that by moving to France, they could lower their expenses, work less, and build a more balanced life.Life in France looks very different from what it did in California. Koh and her husband, both of whom worked in tech, traded Silicon Valley’s…

I grew up in Los Angeles — Studio City, to be exact. My father was the chief audio engineer at NBC Burbank for 38 years. I met the stars he put on the air — Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, and Johnny Carson. I even sat in Tony Martin’s lap in a Christmas sleigh while he sang “Jingle Bells.” Loading audio narration… We lived in a modest house, built in 1945. I went to Hollywood High. Art’s Deli, where movie deals are made over bagels and coffee, was two blocks from my house. We had the first television in the neighborhood…

If you’ve ever felt you can’t compete with some offers when buying a home, you might be up against a collective effort from institutional investors.Landlords — even of those of the mom-and-pop variety — have been on the receiving end of grievances from prospective homebuyers who can’t enter the market because of the for-profit strategy employed by investors.”I think that people see institutional investors as a maybe strange or unnatural player in the housing market,” Realtor.com senior economist Jake Krimmel told Business Insider. “When it comes to the single-family market, this is a non-traditional actor, and the trend kind of…

YouTuber Caleb Hammer has built a career digging into people’s poor money decisions on his show, “Financial Audit.”He says there’s one mistake he sees most consistently.”It’s the cars,” he said during a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider. “People are obsessed with getting whatever big truck or SUV that has the new year on it. And they say it’s the safety features, because, you know, we were making cars one year ago that were just killing everyone. So you’ve got to get the 2027 Ford F-150 Turbo edition.”Hammer, who also sells a budgeting app, Dollarwise, and financial education courses, conceded that…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthijs van der Ham, 44, an architect and woodworker. For seven years, he and his 13-year-old son have lived in Minitopia,’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.Seven years ago, when our landlord told me the apartment on a farm where I lived with my seven-year-old son was coming off the rental market, I needed to find somewhere else to live.Around the same time, a tiny house became available at a Minitopia village in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the first of several in the region. I was already familiar with…