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Mars delivered one of the summer's most complete live experiences at MetLife, a show that proved spectacle still scales when the execution is meticulous.

Rodrigo dropped a Handmaid's Tale-inspired track through a single indie record store in Tustin, California, a move that made the physical format feel like a statement instead of a novelty.

In this novel, generations of spirits watch as their descendants debate selling their ancestral home, a meditation on what inheritance actually means.

The K-pop act discusses its album and the hard math of staying relevant when the audience is global and the cycle is brutal.

Clean, scaled tailoring for fall, a brand that knows its lane and stays in it.

Urban wear borrowed from the water, a small piece on how subcultural signifiers get translated for landlocked wear.

Smart layering for the shoulder season, practical and executed with the kind of discipline that makes clothes feel like choices.

Back-to-college spending is projected to cross one hundred billion dollars for the first time, and Urban Outfitters knows how to capture that moment.

Two new CPG bets showing up at trade shows, betting that functional ingredients and alcohol mix at retail.

From Cyclospora to E. coli, the summer's food recalls raise questions about where the system is breaking.

To create a new $699 bootcamp, Harvard Business School made A.I. versions of its faculty, a move that signals how institutions are scaling expertise.

Citing rising component costs, Amazon raised prices across its consumer hardware line, a move that signals where supply pressure is landing hardest.

Google's latest brings AI features that work but fails to justify the upgrade cycle on hardware alone.

Ottolenghi on the ingredient at its peak and how to cook with it when it's screaming.

A week of market buying in France, a meditation on what abundance looks like on a Saturday morning.

Walmart reported strong unit volume growth helping drive grocery improvement, a signal that price sensitivity is driving unit count up.

A piece on how wine gets marketed when it's not the anchor product.

The Cincinnati Open has always been the warmup to the US Open, but a $260 million renovation changed the entire conversation around the event.

Serena plays mixed doubles alongside world number two Carlos Alcaraz at the US Open, a pairing that reads as a passing of the torch.

Garfield admits to a secret Instagram and talks about what it means to step back from the machine.

The jury at Sarajevo included Emily Watson and European Film Academy director Matthijs Wouter Knol, and the picks signal where taste is landing.

A five-day trek that's become a pilgrimage for the type of person who prefers mountains to screens.

A program that prioritizes strength as the foundation for running past fifty.

A new study suggests brain immune cells devour living neurons, a finding that reframes how we think about neurodegenerative disease.

Research suggests acupuncture may have real impact on mood, a finding that reshapes how we talk about the practice.

Todd Blanche has been Attorney General for two weeks and already the DOJ's next confirmation battle is taking shape.

Adam Tooze on bond volatility and what rising yields mean for the entire debt structure.

A piece that asks the question nobody wants to answer about long-term interest rates and structural debt.

Apollo Global Management found something surprising: AI adoption is hitting wages before employment, a leading indicator of what's coming.

Outer Biosciences kept surgically discarded human skin alive and fed it to an AI model, a new frontier in biotech training data.