How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

By: Anand Giridharadas — 23 November 2025 at 14:01

This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.

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TikTok Deal Could Make Oracle Founder Larry Ellison a New Kind of Media Mogul

By: David Streitfeld and Theodore Schleifer — 23 September 2025 at 14:29

The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN and a piece of TikTok.

Larry Ellison is among the investors in the newly formulated American version of TikTok.

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Bill Gates Accuses Elon Musk of ‘Killing Children’ by Cutting Foreign Aid

By: Neil Vigdor — 8 May 2025 at 20:37

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist condemned his fellow billionaire for overseeing deep cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Trump administration.

Bill Gates said that Elon Musk had gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, resulting in the deaths of children in some of the world’s poorest countries.

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Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045

By: David Wallace-Wells — 8 May 2025 at 19:23

In a wide-ranging interview, he explains his decision — amid the Trump administration’s assault on foreign aid — to accelerate the end of his giving.

“I think it’s objective to say to you that things will be better in the next 20 years.”

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What to Know About Bill Gates’s Plans to Shut Down the Gates Foundation

By: David Wallace-Wells — 8 May 2025 at 12:15

The billionaire philanthropist says he will accelerate his giving — but then dissolve his organization in 20 years, decades earlier than he originally planned.

Bill Gates and George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer, at an event in Liverpool in 2016 announcing funding for a program aimed at reducing deaths from malaria.

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Terminal Cancer Patient Helps Erase More Than $20 Million in Medical Debt for Others

By: Lola Fadulu — 19 November 2023 at 14:39

Casey McIntyre organized a campaign that has raised nearly $220,000 since she died a week ago. The funds are expected to pay off more than $20 million in debt, an official said.

“A note to my friends: if you’re reading this I have passed away,” a post on Casey McIntyre’s social media accounts read two days after she died.

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Bob Barker Fought Animal Cruelty Through Philanthropy and Activism

By: Chris Cameron — 26 August 2023 at 22:12

With millions in donations and a powerful bully pulpit, Mr. Barker became one of the most prominent allies of the animal rights movement in Hollywood.

Bob Barker with Nancy Burnet, president of United Activist for Animal Rights, in front of a Fifth Avenue furrier in New York in 1988.