By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – November 4, 2025 Manufacturing job losses in the 2000s affected politics. Disruptions to desk jobs will too. While this isn’t the first such transformative moment in American history, it may turn out to be the fastest. Four of America’s largest tech firms—Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon—combined have had capital expenditures of $360 billion...

By: Sierra Dawn McClain – wsj.com – October 29, 2025 Farms automate harvests of corn and other crops, but the technology still needs work. It’s harvest time in America’s major apple-producing states, including Washington, New York and Michigan. The Agriculture Department projects the U.S. crop this year will surpass 11 billion pounds—nearly all picked by hand in brisk fall air....

By: Jonathan Rosenthal and Neal Zuckerman – wsj.com – October 22, 2025 Wright’s Law is being rewritten, and leaders who don’t adapt to this new world will be replaced. Artificial intelligence has accelerated this principle. It is rewriting Wright’s Law, which assumes that experience follows production: You make mistakes, learn from them and improve. AI makes it possible for experience...

Bud Light’s partnership with Dylan Mulvaney was costly. One of Wall Street’s most celebrated companies, NVIDIA, may be stepping into similar territory.

By: Dawn Buckingham, MD – nxtbook.com – September 2025 In the heart of Galveston, tourists continue to whisper of pirate Jean Lafitte’s hidden treasure. Legend tells of his gold buried deep beneath the sandy shores, a fortune waiting to be found since he was forced out of Texas in the early 1800s. Yet, today, new treasure has been unearthed in...

By: Kristen Waggoner – wsj.com – October 5, 2025 The ADL withdrew its smear of Charlie Kirk. The SPLC should follow its example. The Anti-Defamation League last week retired its “Glossary of Extremism” amid backlash for having designated Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA as an extremist organization. The ADL isn’t alone in applying such inflammatory labels. Months before Kirk’s assassination,...

By: Patrick Coffee – wsj.com – September 26, 2025 AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say. Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll farms that spammed influential personalities like X owner...

AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

By: Suzy Welch – wsj.com – September 24, 2025 Hiring managers prize achievement, learning and work. Today’s youth value pleasure and individuality. It started innocently enough, with a class I created about how to find your purpose—which, I posited, lies at the intersection of your values, aptitudes and economically viable interests. Intrigued by what I was learning about Generation Z...

By: Allison Pohle and Chip Cutter – wsj.com – September 15, 2025 Campaigns to alert employers to contentious posts are posing new challenges for bosses; ‘This is very different’ from past political controversies at work. Workers across the country who’ve mocked Charlie Kirk’s death online have quickly learned their words can get them fired. From American Airlines to Nasdaq—and in...