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Fortune Archives: The midterms tsunami that overtook Congress—in 1994
A weakened president. A Congress swept by the opposition party, whose own caucus is deeply ideologically split. Fed-up voters demanding fixes for health care and the economy. Financial markets jittery. It sounds a lot like the moment America finds itself in now, following an unprecedented “Blue Tsunami” that left Democrats in control of both the U.S. House and the Senate. But it’s actually how Fortune’s Ann Reilly Dowd described Washington in December 1994, after Rep.
Fortune Archives: The man behind the crypto exchange hit with a $6.3B heist
On Thursday, a hacker drained an estimated $6.3 billion from the crypto exchange Binance. What may turn out to be the biggest crypto heist in history appears to have been carried out via a single compromised laptop, as Fortune’s editor of finance and crypto, Jeff John Roberts, explains in his account of what we know so far.
Fortune Archives: The unnerving fragility of our digital world
The systems and code that keep daily life moving tend to remain invisible, until they stop working. That’s what happened—on a spectacular scale—in February 2024, when a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare exposed just how much of American health care depended on a company that many patients, and even providers, had never heard of. Physical therapist Joe Martin, for example, hadn’t known his billing company used Change’s technology. Then payments to his New York practice stopped arriving.
Evenfall: prepare a quieter evening, then unplug
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady. What I Built At the end of the day, even choosing something calming can become another task: find a story, pick a voice, choose background audio, and hope the connection holds. Evenfall brings those choices into one quiet place. It generates bedtime stories with Gemma running in the browser, reads them using installed device voices, and synthesizes rain, ocean or brown-noise soundscapes.
Fortune Archives: Workday’s second act
Halloween is two weeks away, but at enterprise software companies, the whole year has been scary because of the so-called “SaaSpocalypse.” That’s the fear that AI agents will make the per-seat software business obsolete. Workday, the enterprise cloud software giant that provides applications for human resources, finance, payroll, and planning, knows that fear well. In 2018, though, it was the company to beat.
The making of Tim Cook: How Apple's departing CEO went from 'the genius behind Steve Jobs' to a star in his own right Original
When Fortune first put Tim Cook on its cover in 2008, senior writer Adam Lashinsky introduced him as the “under-the-radar guy” who might someday succeed Steve Jobs as Apple CEO—a “genius” and an “operations whiz,” but also a “blank slate” to outsiders. Cook himself resisted the notion that he could lead Apple: “Come on, replace Steve?
Apple’s first 50 years: Charts show how the iPhone maker became a $4.85 trillion giant Original
Apple's history is often told as a procession of blockbuster devices—and that's certainly a striking part of it. The most successful of those devices, the iPhone, remains a powerful engine for the company, accounting for about half of sales in 2025.
Apple’s first 50 years: Charts show how the iPhone maker became a $4.85 trillion giant
Apple’s history is often told as a procession of blockbuster devices—and that’s certainly a striking part of it. The most successful of those devices, the iPhone, remains a powerful engine for the company, accounting for about half of sales in 2025.
How Atlanta sold itself as an Olympics-worthy city Original
Thirty years ago, a Fortune cover story chronicled the improbable campaign that brought the Centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta. The force behind the global campaign for “this Sun Belt hustler” to host the 1996 Olympics was an extraordinary pairing, wrote John Huey, himself an Atlantan. Billy Payne, a white real estate lawyer and former University of Georgia football player, supplied the conviction that such a Quixotic campaign could succeed.
Fortune Archives: What Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ still gets right about work
This week, as the world mourned the singer-songwriter, actor, and philanthropist Dolly Parton after her death at the age of 80, I watched a movie. I wanted my sons, aged 10 and 13, to see Parton’s star turn in the 1980 social satire 9 to 5. It was a small, private tribute and honestly, I had expected the dark comedy about office life to feel a little dated.
Fortune Archives: The end of an era at Google DeepMind
Seven months ago, Fortune’s Allie Garfinkle found DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis waxing philosophical about the vastness of the universe at London’s UCL Observatory, home of the 164-year-old Fry Telescope. Her fascinating Fortune cover profile portrayed Hassabis—Nobel laureate, founder of the AI drug-design company Isomorphic, and the man steering Google’s AI efforts with Gemini—as less of a corporate executive than a scientist-philosopher. This week, the mood at DeepMind is considerably less cosmic.
Fortune Archives: Geoff Colvin’s lasting legacy at Fortune
The legendary journalist Geoff Colvin started as a researcher at Fortune Magazine on Sept. 11, 1978. Over the next 48 years, he went on to deliver some of the finest business journalism in our industry. This week, the Fortune newsroom celebrated and paid homage to Geoff as he retired from his role as Senior Editor-at-Large after working here for half of the publication’s 96 years.
Fortune Archives: The oil boom that never ended
The era of fossil fuel supremacy was supposed to be nearly over by now—or at least headed that way. Instead, as Olivier Le Peuch, the CEO of the energy services giant SLB, put it in a recent Fortune feature: “Exploration is back.” Following the oil shocks of the war in Iran and the closures of the Strait of Hormuz, consumers around the world are paying more for products and at the pump, farmers are struggling to fertilize their crops, and people in poorer nations are going hungry.
Fortune Archives: Jack Welch’s nightmare on Wall Street
In September 1994, the unraveling of the investment firm Kidder, Peabody & Co., GE’s subsidiary, was a scandal that had jumped from niche financial publications to newspaper front pages: The collision of Wall Street intrigue, a $350-million-plus fraud, and the larger-than-life figure of Jack Welch, then arguably the most celebrated CEO in America, was irresistible.
Fortune Archives: The donut that conquered America
Krispy Kreme isn’t some fly-by-night dot-com. There’s 66 years of history here. In 2003, in the wake of the dot-com bust, the hottest brand in America was no longer a tech company, Andy Serwer informed the world in a Fortune cover story. It was a donut shop. Having IPOed three years earlier, Krispy Kreme’s stock had quadrupled while the overall market had fallen some 30% during the same period, Serwer noted. Earnings per share were growing faster than another juggernaut brand of the era: Starbucks.
Fortune Archives: Has the American Dream stood the test of time?
“Not long ago, a handful of middle-level executives, talking informally around a luncheon table in Manhattan, found themselves all agreeing with one of their number who said, ‘I think children born fifty years ago could look forward to a better future than my children can.’” This observation, from a special edition that Fortune published in 1975 to kick off the American Bicentennial era, could easily have been made at a Manhattan lunch table in 2026.
The art of American bigness
Fortune publishes lists to celebrate all kinds of qualities in companies—from how admired they are to how much they have changed the world for the better. But our foundational list measures just one thing: bigness. The Fortune 500, launched in 1955 as a “Box Score of Business Bigness,” ranks companies by annual revenue in the past fiscal year. Some Fortune 500 covers feature a person whose impact on the business world is undeniable, as was the case with Microsoft’s Satya Nadella in 2024.
CNN analyst and ‘The Morning Show’ producer says Stephen Colbert is a role model for his ‘positive’ outlook on his show ending
It can be difficult to stay positive in the wake of a major work transition, leaving a job that has defined a career for years. Stephen Colbert, the longtime host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is wrapping up his 11-year run this Thursday. CNN analyst Brian Stelter says his public reaction is inspiring for leaders and professionals.
Fortune Archives: Ted Turner’s reckless, brilliant bets
Ted Turner, who died Wednesday at the age of 87, made a career out of bets that looked foolishly reckless, right up until when they started making history. Fortune’s July 1986 cover profile of the media mogul found him in peak form: overleveraged, overconfident, and somehow not entirely wrong. “A daring entrepreneur and a razzle-dazzle showman, square-jawed Ted Turner likes to operate right out on the edge where the competition is thin, the stakes high, and the drama intense,” wrote Stratford P.
Fortune Archives: Who gets a seat at the table?
Today’s U.S. unemployment rate is low by historical standards, yet the national mood feels far from secure. War in Iran, stubbornly high prices, and the drumbeat of AI-as-job-killer stories have made the economy feel fragile. This Fortune magazine cover from October 1939 by Antonio Petruccelli depicts one of the magazine’s famous roundtable discussions.
Fortune Archives: The folks who brought you Apple
In a couple of days, Apple will turn 50. April 1, 1976—the day Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne formed a partnership in California—is now half a century behind us, and the company they created is No. 4 on the Fortune 500, a multitrillion‑dollar behemoth. Billions of devices in pockets, on wrists, and on desks have made Apple a ubiquitous brand in much of the world—and a stock that anchors retirement portfolios and index funds.
Management of Inferior Mesenteric Artery Aneurysms Based on a Comprehensive Review of All Reported Cases in the last 50 Years
Key words Inferior mesenteric artery aneurysm Celiomesenteric occlusion Aneurysm rupture risk Endovascular repair Post stenotic dilation Hemodynamics jet flow phenomenon Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. Edogawa, S. ∙ Shibuya, T. ∙ Kurose, K. ... Inferior mesenteric artery aneurysm: case report and literature review Ann Vasc Dis. 2013; 6(1):98-101 2. Kunioka, S. ∙ Kitahara, H. ∙ Yuasa, N. ...
Fortune Archives: How old is too old to run a company?
In 1952, the average life expectancy at birth for Americans was 68.6 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. By 2024, newborn Americans could expect to live to 79, on average. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the conversation about when corporate executives should retire has changed in the last three-quarters of a century, even if the standard age that most are expected to retire has not shifted much from 65.
Fortune Archives: Amazon on top
This week, a new No. 1 on the Fortune 500 was crowned: Amazon, Phil Wahba reported, will end Walmart’s 13-year reign and take the top spot on the next edition of the Fortune 500 list, which will publish in early June. Amazon’s overtaking of the retail behemoth has been quite a feat to witness, Wahba wrote: “Astonishing, perhaps, but let’s face it, not surprising. Between 2018 and 2025, Amazon achieved a cumulative annual growth rate about three times that of Walmart.
Fortune Archives: Pivot to coal
In 1978, the United States, under President Jimmy Carter, was coming back to coal following the decade’s oil and gas crises. That was despite a slew of scientific studies “coalescing to suggest that the environmental cost of any large-scale reversion to a coal-based economy could be dangerously high,” as Fortune’s Tom Alexander explained.
Fortune Archives: How Disney went Big Tech
It’s a well-worn cliché that no company these days is what it seems—a bank, media company, or consulting firm, for instance. Instead, they all seem to be self-proclaimed “tech companies”—that happen to offer banking, content, or advice. But in 2014, when Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram profiled Disney CEO Bob Iger, the techy transformation of the iconic American animation house and theme park behemoth was startling.
Fortune Archives: When Big Business discovered schools
In August of 1966, the youngest person who had ever appeared on the cover of Fortune magazine was John Scutieri, then 3½ years old.
The 1966 cover of Fortune Magazine welcomed the Information age. Now the AI era beckons
In August of 1966, the youngest person who had ever appeared on the cover of Fortune Magazine was John Scutieri, then 3½ years old.
Fortune Archives: The business of being Trump | Fortune
In this first, tumultuous month of 2026, many have taken to social media to post throwback photos and reflections upon another consequential year: 2016. In that spirit, here’s a Fortune cover story from May of 2016 about the man who would be elected president six months later, and again this past November. “Donald Trump’s pitch is simple,” Shawn Tully and Roger Parloff explained in their 2016 cover feature about the candidate, then in the midst of a crowded primary race.
Fortune Archives: How Saks made luxury for the masses
The new CEO of Saks Global, Geoffroy van Raemdonck, has said that his management philosophy when it comes to running luxury department stores is “leading with love,” Fortune’s Phil Wahba wrote this week.
Fortune Archives: The Grape Depression
In the current issue of Fortune, Vivienne Walt paints a grim picture of the French wine industry facing a slew of crises—“from geopolitics and trade tensions to the changing tastes of younger consumers.” Those changing tastes, and particularly Gen Z’s shift toward sobriety and moderation in alcohol consumption, are causing anxiety in Bordeaux: “Just 54% of American adults now drink alcohol—the lowest rate in 90 years, according to a recent Gallup poll,” Walt writes.
Fortune Archives: The Oracle of Omaha, in 12 magazine covers
Warren Buffett’s face—always smiling, whether he’s slurping a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates—has graced the cover of Fortune more than a dozen times. And it’s no wonder: Buffett has been a towering figure in both business and investing for much of his—and Fortune’s—95 years on earth.
Warren Buffett: Business titan and cover star Original
Warren Buffett’s face—always smiling, whether he’s slurping a milkshake, brandishing a lasso, or palling around with fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates—has graced the cover of Fortune more than a dozen times. And it’s no wonder: Buffett has been a towering figure in both business and investing for much of his—and Fortune’s—95 years on earth.
Fortune Archives: Those daring young con men of equity funding
In a memo from Nvidia to analysts that caused a buzz this week after Barron’s reported on it, the chip giant asserted that despite discussions of the “circular” nature of some of its investments, it is not Enron. “Enron,” of course, has become shorthand for a huge accounting scandal.
Fortune Archives: The Jewish mogul who shaped the Christmas shopping season
The Christmas shopping season traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, with turkey leftovers in the refrigerator. That period—27 days this year, between Black Friday on Nov. 28 and Christmas Eve on Dec. 24—is a make-or-break time for American retailers, with holiday sales accounting for almost a fifth of annual sales overall, and a third for department stores.
Fortune Archives: The Walmart CEO raised in the ‘house that Sam built’
In a 1989 feature on the then up-and-coming discount superstore Wal-Mart, Fortune’s John Huey recounted a simple but urgent request from the chain’s cofounder, Sam Walton, to his 215,000 employees (or “associates” in the company’s internal lingo).
Fortune Archives: The war on Big Food
“Big Food is under attack from Startup Granola,” Fortune’s Beth Kowitt declared in 2015.
Fortune Archives: The roots of the crises facing American agriculture
By Indrani SenSenior Editor, Features With over three million tractors and 35 million other machines, farmers are still wonderfully dissatisfied. Cover illustration by Edmund Lewandowski “Farm mechanization has just begun,” proclaimed the cover of Fortune’s October 1948 edition.
여성 건강 연구 고작 1%… 게이츠 재단이 바꾼다
전 세계적으로 여성은 남성보다 평균 3년 반가량 더 오래 산다. 유전적, 호르몬적, 사회적 요인 때문이다. 하지만 ‘건강 수명’은 오히려 짧다. 임신과 출산이라는 위험 요소를 안고 있는 데다, 저개발국에서는 예방 가능한 원인으로 여성과 아이들이 목숨을 잃는 경우도 많다. 이 같은 불균형을 해소하겠다는 게 향후 20년간 빌 게이츠가 2000억 달러를 들여 추진하겠다고 밝힌 글로벌 헬스 프로젝트의 첫 번째 과제다. 마이크로소프트 공동 창업자인 빌 게이츠는 지난 5월 남은 재산 대부분을 전 세계 가난한 사람들을 위협하는 질병 퇴치에 투입하겠다고 발표했다. 그는 이 작업이 끝나면 2000년에 멀린다 프렌치 게이츠와 함께 설립한 재단은 문을 닫을 것이라고 밝혔다. 미국 매사추세츠주 캠브리지에서 열린 STAT 뉴스 행사에서 게이츠는 어린이 사망률을 백신으로 줄이고, 간단한 혈액 측정 기기로 산모 사망률을 낮춘 성과를 소개했다.
Just 1% of health R&D targets women. The Gates Foundation aims to change that with $2.5 billion push Original
Globally, women live an average of three-and-a-half years longer than men, for a variety of genetic, hormonal, and societal reasons. But women tend to have shorter “health spans”—years of living in good health. Partly due to the perils they face in pregnancy and childbirth, they spend more of their lives unwell, and in poor countries millions of women and children die from preventable causes.
An icon of internationalism: The globe on Fortune covers, from 1933 onward
The globe is a potent symbol, and one that can mean very different things in dif- ferent eras. Fortune has often used the motif—fittingly, perhaps, for the magazine founded in 1929 by Henry Luce, a globalist before that term came into vogue.
An icon of internationalism: The globe on Fortune covers, from 1933 onward
The globe is a potent symbol, and one that can mean very different things in dif- ferent eras. Fortune has often used the motif—fittingly, perhaps, for the magazine founded in 1929 by Henry Luce, a globalist before that term came into vogue.
Fortune Archives: The whiz kid economy
The face of the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, on the cover of the next issue of Fortune magazine, brings to mind another dewy-faced cover star: Wang’s now-boss, Mark Zuckerberg. In 2009, Fortune’s Jessi Hempel profiled the Facebook CEO, who was 24 and as she noted “the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, on paper at least.” The tech founder was not yet the polarizing household name he is today.
Fortune Archives: The whiz kid economy
The face of the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, on the cover of the next issue of Fortune magazine, brings to mind another dewy-faced cover star: Wang’s now-boss, Mark Zuckerberg. In 2009, Fortune’s Jessi Hempel profiled the Facebook CEO, who was 24 and as she noted “the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, on paper at least.” The tech founder was not yet the polarizing household name he is today.
Fortune Archives: Can IBM’s CEO teach the elephant to dance again?
On the cover of the May 1993 issue of Fortune magazine, three colossi of American business were depicted as lumbering, robotic dinosaurs. IBM, Sears, and GM were once “the biggest, most fearsome companies on earth,” the magazine declared.
Fortune Archives: Where is the next great American idea?
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It's the end of philanthropy as we know it—and that could reshape America Original
A “behemoth of benefaction” is how my colleague Geoff Colvin describes Bill Gates’ philanthropic organization, the Gates Foundation. And indeed, it’s the largest private foundation in the world, built upon the staggering wealth Gates created at Microsoft, along with some $40 billion pitched in by his friend and fellow philanthropist, the investor Warren Buffett.
Fortune Archives: The king is dead
A colored engraving depicting the execution of King Louis XVI. Prisma/UIG via Getty Images
Fortune Archives: Tips from a serial entrepreneur
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Lower Rates of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair and Higher Long-term Aortic Mortality in Women Compared With Men: Results of a Population-Based Study Spanning 4 Decades
Abbreviations and Acronyms AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm) EVAR (endovascular aortic repair) HR (hazard ratio) rAAA (ruptured AAA) REP (Rochester Epidemiology Project) Get full text access Log in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References 1. Li, B. ∙ Eisenberg, N. ∙ Witheford, M. ... Sex differences in outcomes following ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair JAMA Network Open. 2022; 5, e2211336 2. Egorova, N.N. ∙ Vouyouka, A.G. ∙ McKinsey, J.F. ...
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