Fed Chair Jerome Powell Just Broke 75 Years of Precedent With a Move That''s Likely to Frustrate President Trump. How Will This Impact the Stock Market? (news.google.com)
A Mom Complains Her College Graduate Daughter Is Wasting Money On Starbucks. Dave Ramsey Asks, ''In 30 Days, You Want To Fix 4 Years Of Damage?'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Anthony Scaramucci And Mike Novogratz Say The Tax Code Is Easy To Crack: ''Nobody I Know Who Has Real Wealth Will Pay An Inheritance Tax'' (finance.yahoo.com)
Saudi Arabia’s national oil company said its quarterly profit rose 25% as it increased exports via a pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz (on.wsj.com)
I was laid off from my banking job at 55 and left corporate America to build my own AI consultancy. Here''s what I learned in the process. (www.businessinsider.com)
“She Gave His Father A Roundhouse Kick To The Face”: 24 Stories About Incredibly Badass Moms That Have Me Convinced They’re Actual Superheroes (news.google.com)
How Reading with My Dying Mother Revealed Her Life - As a teacher, she would talk about literature with other people’s children. Finally I got the same chance. (www.newyorker.com)
Restaurant Review: Lysée - One evening a week, at Eunji Lee’s tiny Manhattan pâtisserie, Lysée, sweets are appetizer, entrée, and everything else. (www.newyorker.com)
Péter Magyar Led Hungarians out of Autocracy. Where Will He Take Them Now? - In his first substantial conversation with a foreign journalist since being elected, the new Prime Minister promised, “We don’t want to build a power machine.” (www.newyorker.com)
Is Los Angeles Finally Ready to Take the Subway? - After decades of false starts, a new rail line has opened along the city’s most congested boulevard. (www.newyorker.com)
What “The Sheep Detectives” Doesn’t Understand About Sheep - The new film, starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson, is based on a near-perfect “sheep crime novel”—but the adaptation shows disappointingly little interest in the animal mind. (www.newyorker.com)
Spirit Airlines and the Death of Leisure for the Non-Leisure Class - The low-cost carrier was a mess. But it was also an icon of budget travel, facilitating a kind of modest freedom for the masses. (www.newyorker.com)
The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again - In “Mawmaw,” the photographer Anthony Wilson pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for their children’s children. (www.newyorker.com)
Have Billionaires Gone Too Far? - “We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Chaotic New Era of British Politics - Keir Starmer’s unpopularity has led Labour to a humiliating defeat in local elections. Now, with five major parties competing for votes, the far right could be well positioned for a general-election victory. (www.newyorker.com)
Kacey Musgraves Music Review: “Middle of Nowhere” - On her new album, “Middle of Nowhere,” the singer toys with two of country music’s great themes: her home state of Texas, and solitude. (www.newyorker.com)
A Tree Grows in Marburg in “Silent Friend” - In Ildikó Enyedi’s meditative nature epic, three lonely experimenters from three different eras seek to unlock the secrets of plants—and learn something vital about themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Barack Obama in the Trump Era - The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis? (www.newyorker.com)
Growing Up with a Mother in Prison - Harriet Clark’s new novel, “The Hill,” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talks with Rachel Aviv. (www.newyorker.com)
The Pope’s First Anniversary Is Marked by More Sparring from the White House - Who would have thought that Leo XIV would make so much history so fast? (www.newyorker.com)
For Putin, Problems (and Paranoia) Keep Mounting - Drone attacks, internet blackouts, and a sudden downturn in the economy have led some prominent Russians to start openly questioning their President’s grip on power. (www.newyorker.com)
The Reign of David Attenborough - For generations of TV viewers, the beloved presenter has linked the patch of glass in our living rooms and the wide world beyond. And he’s not done yet. (www.newyorker.com)
All The President’s Contractors - Urged by advisers to focus on the domestic agenda, Trump trains his gaze on construction projects around the capital. (www.newyorker.com)
The U.K.’s Antisemitism Problem - The British government has declared antisemitism a “crisis” after a recent spate of violent attacks. But will their solutions protect Jews, or make the situation worse? (www.newyorker.com)