View OriginalAmerican Retail’s Tangled Mess: Too Many Stores, Too Much Product, Too Much InflationA slew of quarterly earnings reports have highlighted too many stores, too much product, and too much inflation.
View OriginalHow America’s Affordable House of the Future FailedThe all-steel Lustron was supposed to be an elixir for many of the housing problems we still face today.
View OriginalCan You Patent a Pizza? Ask the Alleged Inventor of the Stuffed Crust.Anthony Mongiello, who claims to have created the idea, says he never got a slice of the financial pie.
View OriginalHow American News Lost Its NerveIn 2024, it’s harder than ever to get a tough story out in the United States of America.
View OriginalCan Europe Save Forests Without Killing Jobs in Malaysia?The European Union’s upcoming ban on imports linked to deforestation has been hailed as a “gold standard” in climate policy: a meaningful step to protect the world’s forests, which help remove planet-killing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
View OriginalThe Self-Driving Car Bubble Has PoppedApple has spent nearly a decade not-so-quietly trying to build a car. It poached big shots from Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lamborghini as well as Alphabet’s car company, Waymo.
View OriginalApple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EUApple is planning to make further changes in EU countries to allow some developers to distribute their iOS apps directly from a website.
View OriginalThe 3 kinds of presentations all workers should perfectIn her new book, communications expert Terri Sjodin suggests that there are three kinds of presentations: informative, persuasive, and ceremonial. 5 minute ReadSelling can be challenging.
View OriginalRobert Hur’s report exaggerated Biden’s memory issuesThe ex-special counsel testified Tuesday, but a transcript of his interview with the president undercut his claims.
View OriginalCorporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack WorseWhen doctors at the New Mexico Cancer Center got to work on Thursday, February 22, they immediately knew something was very wrong.
View OriginalBedbugs, Rats and No Heat: How One Woman Endured a Decade of Neglect in New York’s Guardianship SystemProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
View OriginalMy Dream House and the PondWould the house be around to bequeath to our children, or would it be underwater? I can’t talk about our house in the Bronx without telling you first about the pond out front.
View OriginalThis chart of ocean temperatures should really scare youThe Atlantic Ocean is unusually warm right now. Here’s why scientists say that’s “deeply troubling.” If you were to dip your toes into the middle of the North Atlantic — say, somewhere between South Carolina and Spain — the water would feel frigid.
View OriginalWill Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish Woman, Blaze a Trail or Follow One?Mexico’s presidential campaign is well underway and if the polls are to be believed, Claudia Sheinbaum, a physicist and candidate of the left-leaning ruling Morena party, could be the country’s next president. Ms.
View OriginalCan the Typical Person Become a Millionaire?If you start saving $300 a month at age 25, by the time you’re 60 you’ll be a millionaire. While not technically false (assuming you could earn a 9.5% return each and every year), such statements make it seem as if it’s easy to become a millionaire. They imply that anyone can do it.