The Global Gospel According to Saint Bill: How a Software Salesman Became Humanity’s Reluctant Savior DATELINE: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEATTLE AND THE STRATOSPHERE — While the rest of us were busy arguing about whether pineapple belongs on pizza, William Henry Gates III quietly transformed from the man who brought us the Blue Screen of Death into…
Agnes Gund, the 85-year-old Manhattan dowager who looks like she just stepped out of a Wharton novel and into a money-laundering thriller, has decided that the best way to punish the world’s autocrats is to hit them where it hurts: their taste in art. Last week, she sold a single Roy Lichtenstein—one measly cartoon explosion…
In the pantheon of American dynastic surnames, “Kraft” evokes a very particular aroma: not cheese, but the unmistakable scent of money marinated in NFL glory. Josh Kraft—yes, the middle son of Patriots emperor Robert Kraft—has spent most of his 58 years orbiting a football empire the way lesser mortals orbit Wi-Fi. From Lagos boardrooms to…
The United Nations has climate summits, Davos has its alpine power brunches, and the global poor have… MrBeast. Somewhere between the two-billionth view and the latest video in which he cures 1,000 blind people with the casual flourish of a man ordering dim sum, Jimmy Donaldson has quietly become the most influential foreign-aid program the…
