The Brutalist Report - fortune
- Social Security’s trust fund is nearing insolvency, and the borrowing binge that may follow will rip through debt markets, economist warns [7d]
- Confronting Asia’s growing rate of chronic conditions means tackling cultural issues as much as medical ones [7d]
- Southeast Asia’s fast-growing hospitality industry has a people problem. Here’s what leading brands are doing to get the staff they need [7d]
- One of Stanford’s original AI gurus says productivity liftoff has begun after doubling in 2025 amid transition to ‘harvest phase’ along J-curve [7d]
- Gasoline-starved California is turning to fuel from the Bahamas [7d]
- Trump’s border czar says ‘small’ security force will remain in Minnesota after enforcement drawdown. ‘We’ll get back to the original footprint’ [7d]
- U.S. literally can’t afford to lose superpower status as debt looms—so we’re stuck in an ‘increasingly loveless’ marriage with Europe, analyst says [7d]
- U.S. military tracks down a sanctioned oil tanker from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean and ‘shut it down’ [7d]
- The U.S. and Iran will hold a new round of nuclear talks as Trump sends the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Mideast [7d]
- A stock market doom loop is hitting everything that touches AI [7d]
- EU foreign policy chief pushes back on U.S. claims that ‘woke, decadent Europe’ is heading toward ‘civilizational erasure’ [7d]
- Thanks to Trump, tax refunds could $1,000 higher this season. Here are the new deductions taxpayers should know about [7d]
- More professionals are taking mini-sabbaticals, adult gap years, and other extended career breaks. Here are the creative ways they manage the cost [7d]
- The punk rock economist: why the founder of Warped Tour refuses to gouge fans [7d]
- Meet the American spies who helped mammograms save more lives [7d]
- Elites are the villains we love to hate. It’s American culture’s most paradoxical obsession [7d]
- Keke Palmer became a millionaire at 12—but even with $1 million, she’d still only pay $1,500 in rent and drive a Lexus: ‘I live under my means’ [7d]
- A billionaire and an A-list actor found refuge in a 37-home Florida neighborhood with armed guards—proof that privacy is now the ultimate luxury [7d]
- I’m the CEO of the 1980s most viral restaurant, Tony Roma’s. We’re still thriving but viral brands keep turning into pumpkins [7d]
- Adrien Brody’s multimillion‑dollar TurboTax Super Bowl ad: Intuit’s CMO explains why the software giant spends more on marketing than R&D [7d]
- Meet the grandmother living out of a 400-ft ‘granny pod’ to save money and help with child care—it’s become an American ‘economic necessity’ [7d]
- Fox News’ Dana Perino’s advice for Gen Z graduates: Stop waiting for the perfect job and just start working [7d]
- Meet Florida Man 2.0: the executive working to replace retirees and Disney tourists with Fortune 500 HQs [7d]
- Newsom pleads with U.S. allies in Europe to see Trump as temporary [8d]
- China expanding aid for Russia’s war, Western officials say [8d]
- America’s vanishing cattle herd drives 15% price hikes for beef [8d]
- Trump’s Caribbean surge nears $3 billion price tag so far [8d]
- Golfers sue over Trump’s overhaul of 100-year-old public course so it doesn’t become ‘another private playground for the privileged and powerful’ [8d]
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