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What it’s really going to take to build fire-resistant communities
When a city burns, people often zoom in on houses, the individual cells that make up the fabric of a community. After the tragic fires in Los Angeles earlier this month, many publications, this one...
View ArticleThis free music-streaming site can replace your Spotify subscription
You know what I miss? Listening to the radio. I’ve always loved background music, which helps me focus. But modern music-streaming services can be distracting. Yes, I enjoy having instant access to...
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30 housing markets where home prices are rising the fastest
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. National home prices are rising 2.6% on a year-over-year basis. While some markets...
View ArticleInvesting 101: A simple guide for beginners
Despite growing up with a financial planner for a father, the idea of investing intimidated me well into my adulthood. From my point of view, investing seemed like a mysterious process. Not only was...
View ArticleTake these 4 steps to prepare for conflict at work
Perhaps you’re coming out of a wave of layoffs or a down year. Maybe you’re preparing for a run of performance reviews where you have to deliver tough feedback. If you have tense conversations on the...
View ArticleWhat detainees’ art can tell us about Guantánamo Bay
When Moath al-Alwi left Guantánamo Bay for resettlement in Oman, accompanying him on his journey was a cache of artwork he created during more than two decades of detention. Al-Alwi was detainee...
View ArticleHow to convince your U.S. employer to let you work abroad
Working abroad might be just what your career—and personal life—needs. It exposes you (and loved ones) to new, different, and potentially more fulfilling ways of living. It expands your worldview. And...
View Article5 hallmarks of inspiring leaders that leave a lasting impact
Adam Galinsky is a social psychologist and professor of leadership and tthics at Columbia Business School. He conducts behavioral science research, having published more than 200 scientific articles....
View ArticleProductivity hacks that don’t cause burnout
Last week, in an article for Fast Company, author and tech executive Rebekah Bastian wrote about why she doesn’t read productivity books. The vast majority of these books are written by men who don’t...
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The Clicks iPhone keyboard is as powerful as it is frustrating
A funny thing happened after I stopped using Clicks, the keyboard case that effectively turns an iPhone into an oversized Blackberry: The phone by itself suddenly seemed punier. I mean that in terms...
View ArticleHip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture. Here’s what they have in...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. Hip-hop and house both have their origins in the 1970s and early...
View ArticleFlorida could see an 89% increase in home insurance rates thanks to climate...
If you own a house, your insurance premiums have probably surged over the last several years. A new report outlines how much worse it could get as climate disasters keep growing: In Florida, for...
View Article3 quick ways to free up iPhone storage space
So you flew too close to the sun—downloading app after app, recording hi-res video, binging podcasts—and now you’re faced with the dreaded “Storage Almost Full” pop-up on your iPhone. It’s OK: we can...
View ArticleThis Edelman executive believes DEI will survive the current backlash. Here’s...
Efforts to diversify workplaces and promote equality are under attack—most recently with a sweeping crackdown from the Trump administration. But advocates and professionals who’ve dedicated their...
View ArticleSan Diego border crossings have declined—but ICE keeps moving migrants around...
Immigration Judge Ana Partida sat before a mostly empty courtroom on an afternoon in October, her body angled toward a television on one of the side walls. None of the people scheduled to appear...
View ArticleDow drops as fears of a trade war mount ahead of Trump’s tariffs
Worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting U.S. stocks Monday as financial markets worldwide drop on concerns about a potential trade war.The S&P 500 was down 1.4% in early trading...
View ArticleOpenAI and SoftBank announce artificial intelligence joint venture
Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group and OpenAI stepped up their AI partnership Monday, setting up a 50-50 held company called SB OpenAI Japan.SoftBank Chief Masayoshi Son and OpenAI Chief Sam...
View ArticleThe UN’s annual climate conference isn’t for 9 months—but hotel rooms in the...
Nine months ahead of this year’s annual U.N. climate summit, known as COP30, lodging prices in the Brazilian host city of Belem are turning heads—and may soon turn off would-be attendees from the...
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Housing market is squeezed by spiked building costs—and tariffs could make it...
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. This week, the U.S. is set to impose new tariffs as part of President Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleWhat does USAID do? What to know about the foreign aid agency that Elon Musk...
Over the weekend, Elon Musk took to X with a series of tweets claiming that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was a “criminal organization” that needed to “die.” By this morning,...
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