Yesterday
Ten thinkers on what to make of Trump’s 100 days
Ten experts assess the start of Trump’s second term – to make sense of all that has happened so far and what might come next.
How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong
Titans of finance and business are beginning to realise they misread the president’s second-term priorities.
This Month
It’s time to ditch your mind-numbing, pointless career
The bestselling Dutch historian makes a persuasive case for ambitious people to quit their corporate jobs and make a difference in the world.
An age of extinction is coming. Here’s how to survive
The digital era is killing us softly by distracting us from the activities that sustain ordinary life and making existence at a human scale seem obsolete.
April
Why Palantir’s billionaire founder asks ‘why’ five times
In a new book, Palantir’s co-founder says effective leaders must reject intellectual fragility, take in the facts and resist the urge to impose one’s view on them.
An empathetic CEO took her firm from $90m to $8b. KKR noticed
A private equity firm’s experiment in employee ownership spurred it to look deeper into why some bosses are better leaders.
Trump’s plan to seize Ukraine’s minerals is a strategic debacle
The West just has to wait a little, tighten the screws at the right moment, and Putin will be forced to the table on our terms. Instead, Trump offers him a real estate joint venture.
China has an army of robots on its side in the tariff war
Enormous investments in factory equipment and artificial intelligence are giving Beijing an edge in car manufacturing and other industries.
What does a 900-year-old monarchy bring to modern private banking?
Like all royals on whose door this correspondent has ever knocked, getting an audience with Liechtenstein’s Serene Highness is not necessarily the easiest of feats.
Europe could end up more like 1980s Qld than 1930s Germany
There’s a problem with being on the lookout for a rerun of the 1930s: you could miss what’s actually happening.
For a revealing insight into Nvidia, this book is unrivalled
Jensen Huang’s brainchild, Nvidia, has had astronomic success making microchips. Stephen Witt’s “The Thinking Machine” tells the inside story.
Under Trump, America is becoming unrecognisable
Understatement and confidence, decency and expectation; that certain idea of the United States for which the country was once so admired, is evaporating.
Minecraft’s creator sold it for a fortune. Then things got strange
Markus ‘Notch’ Persson built the world’s biggest video game. He sold it for billions for the sake of his “sanity”.
What is Elon Musk’s IQ?
The questionable measure of intelligence has now been uncoupled from any test and functions as a general-purpose human ranking system that implies invincibility, prosperity and virility.
Inside the Gen X career meltdown
“It’s the end of work as we knew it”: When they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
Why Trump’s tariffs won’t last long
The cumulative pressure from households, businesses, markets and Republicans on Trump will mount even faster now that the tariffs are in full flow.
Albanese ‘uncomfortable’, Dutton ‘no interest’: Our foreign policy fail
Both major parties tell us that Australia today faces its most dangerous international environment since World War II. Both want to do nothing about it.
The White Lotus is the first great post-‘woke’ piece of art
The show canvasses the last remaining taboos and puts them all on-screen, with a luxury hotel or a superyacht as the backdrop.
Elon Musk applies physics to politics. What could go wrong?
What is Elon Musk’s endgame at DOGE, and where does his political philosophy ultimately lead? It’s not clear anyone knows — including Musk himself.
Turkish democracy is fighting for its life
The jailing of President Erdogan’s main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu follows a familiar trajectory. It could also backfire spectacularly.