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What Being a Billionaire Scion Taught JB Pritzker About Standing Up to One
Feb 9, 2026

What Being a Billionaire Scion Taught JB Pritzker About Standing Up to One

In the late 1970s, after building a small airport hotel into one of the biggest names in hospitality, the Pritzkers of Chicago joined forces with an ambitious young developer to convert an unfashionable hotel on New York’s 42nd Street into a sparkling Grand Hyatt. The building would have five restaurants, a signature atrium, and even—if […]

Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump
Feb 9, 2026

Can He Really Do That? Black History Month in the Age of Trump

Last year, shortly after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on January 31 to mark the start of Black History Month the next day—just as presidents before him had done, beginning with Gerald Ford in the bicentennial year of 1976. He invoked “heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice […]