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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. March is Women’s History Month, so today, I thought I’d share some recommendations for books about women in history that also complete 2026 Read Harder Challenge tasks. We have memoirs and biographies about famous women in history, little-known women’s history, […]
Chairman & CEO Paramount David Ellison attends the UFC 324 event at T-Mobile Arena on January 24, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jeff Bottari | Ufc | Getty Images If there’s one thing that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison knows well, it’s an impossible mission. Ellison, producer of five of the “Mission: Impossible” films, has […]
A 1963 Chevrolet K20 pickup truck and a new Chevrolet Silverado EV sit outside General Motors’ new world headquarters on Jan. 6, 2026 in Detroit. Michael Wayland | CNBC DETROIT – Outside General Motors‘ new world headquarters, between the 12-story building and the city’s first new skyscraper in more than 30 years, sit two red […]
Jodie Foster, Billie Perkins, and Robert De Niro perform a scene in Taxi Driver directed by Martin Scorsese in 1976 in New York, New York. Michael Ochs Archives | Moviepix | Getty Images In the dwindling days of the California gold rush, the wife of a local miner faced a problem. Her husband’s denim work […]
For most investors, the forecasting power of valuation metrics is pure gospel. With the price-to-earnings ratio of US stocks hovering near 30, many are starting to taking it on faith that these are the last days of the bull market. Yet valuations don’t predict stocks’ direction – and they never have. Heresy? More like history […]
“America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a radical transformation would help him win reelection against a Democratic Party in which socialists like Bernie Sanders were growing in numbers […]
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War by Lyndal Roper, an excellent new history of one of the largest popular uprisings before the French Revolution, won this year’s Cundill History Prize and its $75,000 prize. The award, which is administered by Montreal’s McGill University, is given to “a work of outstanding history writing” […]
Silicon Valley’s earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence. Startup accelerator Y Combinator — known for backing Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe — this week held its annual demo day in San Francisco, where founders pitched their startups to an auditorium of potential venture capital investors. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and […]
As the ransomware industry evolves, experts are predicting hackers will only continue to find more and more ways of using the technology to exploit businesses and individuals. Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao | Moment | Getty Images Ransomware is now a billion-dollar industry. But it wasn’t always that large — nor was it a prevalent cybersecurity risk like […]
