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Private jets are descending on the typically quiet ski town of Davos as the masters of the universe make their way to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum.Bill Gates, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon are among the business leaders scheduled to attend, along with world leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron, Argentina’s Javier Milei, and Donald Trump.It’s unlikely any of these titans will fly commercial. Last year, private aviation traffic in the region during WEF week was about five times the usual level, with more than 150 jets landing at area airports,…

At almost 70, with my son grown and building his own creative life, I realized the home I had poured myself into for two decades no longer supported the future I wanted.For almost 20 years, that house looked like the picture of stability. Teal doors, a tire swing, and a sunny studio beside the garage. It was where I raised my son as a single mother and built my photography career. Most people assumed I would stay there forever. The author decided to sell the house were she raised her son. Courtesy of the author But when my son graduated…

While raising my kids in Chicago, I saw a recurring pattern. A neighbor would welcome a second child, or a friend’s oldest would be ready for middle school. Suddenly, the city wasn’t “enough” for them anymore.Seemingly overnight, they longed for larger backyards, quieter streets, and “better schools.” Houses were listed, minivans were purchased, and then loaded to the brim. Those families disappeared into suburban cul-de-sacs.I, on the other hand, made a different choice. I stayed in Chicago, raising my son and daughter in the heart of the city.It wasn’t always easy, but it made me a stronger parent, and I…

At the start of 2025, alarms were blaring about the risk of investing in China.A new protectionist administration was taking over in the US at the same time China’s domestic real estate market was teetering. A possible US ban on TikTok, the popular social media app, imperiled ByteDance, one of the country’s biggest tech companies. American companies seemed to have surged ahead of Chinese rivals in artificial intelligence development.Twelve months later, and many of the biggest fears appear to be overblown. The Chinese government has focused on stimulating the economy, leading public companies to significantly increase their buybacks. ByteDance sold…

Brothers Tal and Oren Alexander — once among the nation’s top luxury real estate brokers — along with a third brother, are set to stand trial in Manhattan this week over allegations that the trio operated a long-running sex-trafficking scheme.Jury selection in the federal criminal trial is scheduled to kick off Tuesday in the same 26th-floor courtroom where last year Sean “Diddy” Combs was cleared of the top sex trafficking and racketeering counts against him and convicted of lesser prostitution-related charges.The case against the Alexander brothers marks the Department of Justice’s latest high-profile sex-trafficking prosecution to reach trial since the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cesar Carvalho, the CEO and cofounder of Wellhub, a global corporate wellness platform. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I became interested in consulting through some older friends while studying at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Their stories about how fast you could learn and grow in the career made me want to pursue it.I applied to all the top firms and accepted McKinsey’s offer to be a business analyst in 2010 as soon as I received it. It was the best thing I could imagine as…

A tiny Swiss ski town with a population of just over 10,000 will play host this week to a clash between two American politicians, President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and their radically different visions of the future of capitalism.Newsom announced on Friday that he will travel more than 6,000 miles to make his return to Davos, Switzerland, to speak this week at the World Economic Forum.Opponents criticized Newsom for being an out-of-touch “Davos Democrat” for attending the elite gathering of business and world leaders at least five times while he was mayor of San Francisco between 2004…

Noah Cox, a lawyer in the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office, formed the Neurocognitive Disorder Team built on the premise that prison is not always the right place for someone with this kind of disability. Philip Cheung for NPR hide caption toggle caption Philip Cheung for NPR L.A. County Public Defender Noah Cox noticed the disturbing trend. Many of his clients seemed to struggle answering even the most basic questions about the crimes they’d been charged with, questions like, “Where were you that day?” It seemed, Cox said, “like they were having troubles related to some sort of intellectual…

The AFL-CIO, the country’s largest network of labor unions representing some 15 million workers, says ICE is a threat to workers.”The Trump administration’s militarized immigration enforcement is putting innocent working people in danger,” the AFL-CIO said in a post on X on Saturday. “America’s unions have your backs.”A group of local unions in Minnesota, meanwhile, has endorsed a planned statewide economic blackout in response to ICE actions in the state.The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, first announced its endorsement alongside other regional bodies on Friday.”The Minnesota labor movement is united against the violent ICE occupation…

In July 2025, my husband, Zach, and I moved our family of four from the suburbs of Ft Worth, Texas, to Denver. After nearly 10 years of marriage, two kids, and three work-related moves, it was finally time to settle in a place of our choosing. This time, we didn’t just want a change of scenery; we wanted a change of lifestyle. But finding a house in the bustling city neighborhood of our dreams within our budget meant downsizing — drastically.Moving from our 3,300-square-foot home to a 2,300-square-foot bungalow with 1,200 square feet of actual living space (the rest being…