Three years ago, when I met someone 21 years my junior in an online class, I never thought we’d become close. Each week in a writing class, we filled the video call with highly personal details about our lives as we learned how to tell our stories. We spilled our emotions in front of dozens
Abdul El-Sayed won a hard fight in Michigan’s Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate against Rep. Haley Stevens. He eked out a win by 15,000 votes, or about 1% of the almost 1.5 million votes cast during the election on Aug. 4, 2026. El-Sayed had a consistent populist message during the primary campaign. He told
Bill Marler’s business is booming — and that’s not great for the rest of us. Marler is a food safety lawyer, defending people who’ve been sickened by foodborne illness. He has been doing this for 33 years, with such high-profile wins that he’s become a towering figure in the food safety world. This year, he’s
The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention. It also helps dictate how much ordinary people have to pay on their mortgages and car loans, as well as how much they earn from their savings accounts and 401(k) plans. This week rising bond yields forced the U.S. Treasury Department into an unusual
For Molly Sims, years in the makeup chair led her to this moment. The YISE Beauty founder chatted exclusively with E! following the launch of her latest product innovation, the Xtremely Quenched Peptide Instant Glow Moisturizer, which comes on the heels of a slight change for the brand: the name. “So many people couldn’t pronounce
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation for our Cost of Living video series with Devonte Duncan, 27, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I started making six figures, I remember my friends and I would go out to eat, and the
