‘It’s going gangbusters!’ How Britain fell in love with bubble teaOn a sunny Thursday afternoon, the Covent Garden branch of Gong cha is doing a roaring trade. Staff behind the counter are busy preparing drinks for a string of customers, all ordering from an electronic pad in the corner.
India’s GDP to grow at 6.9% in 2024 — UN agency revises its January projection of 6.2%New Delhi: India’s economy is expected to grow by 6.9 percent in 2024, retaining its spot as the fastest-growing major economy, said a report by a United Nations agency, in a revision of its earlier 6.2 percent growth rate projection for the country.
Building a Data-Driven Culture: Three Mistakes to AvoidWhen people resist changing the way they make decisions, well-intentioned data science projects are doomed. Here’s how to overcome the key challenges.
Column: Inside the effort by two Beverly Hills billionaires to kill a state law protecting farmworkersLos Angeles-based Wonderful Co.
What Does It Mean to Go Big With Fashion?Everything is bigger in fashion right now. Blazers have ballooned into giant hulking forms with supersized shoulders and even bigger lapels. Bags are large enough to fit your whole life inside.
DOJ Filing: Steve Bannon Is a “Co-Conspirator” in a $1 Billion Fraud CaseIn a little-noticed court filing earlier this month, federal prosecutors described Steve Bannon as a “co-conspirator” in a massive criminal fraud and racketeering case against a flamboyant, far-right Chinese fugitive, compounding the legal headaches of the former Donald Trump adviser.
China’s Alternative OrderBy now, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ambition to remake the world is undeniable. He wants to dissolve Washington’s network of alliances and purge what he dismisses as “Western” values from international bodies. He wants to knock the U.S.
How to Get Real RestRest is essential. People who make true rest—not just sleep—part of their everyday routine have better outcomes across different aspects of their health.
A car-free town in the Amazon serves lessons for pedaling to net zero emissionsAFUÁ, Brazil — Brazilian politicians stumping for reelection know the power of public largesse. So it was in 2010 when the incumbent governor of Pará state lavished city halls in this sprawling Amazonian province twice the size of France with tractors and motor graders to make roads.
The weird new hiring warsAI bots are battling it out over job searches. No matter who wins, we all lose. When Josh Holbrook, a software engineer in Alaska, was laid off in January, he didn't expect to spend too much time looking for a new job. He certainly didn't think he'd need to relearn the job-hunt process.
America’s dime-store NietzscheansIt turns out that yet another leading member of the racial, “vitalist” right is an erstwhile Bernie-ish bro who at some point snapped, or became disaffected with the millennial left, and shifted rightward – not stopping with “normie” conservatism, but going all the way to the weird right.
Leslie Jamison and the Travails of Millennial DivorceIn her new book, the novelist and essayist examines life before and after marriage. A failing marriage often contains within it an amalgam of different feelings.
The Precarious Future of Big Sur’s Highway 1On the afternoon of March 30th, Magnus Torén, the director of the Henry Miller Memorial Library, in Big Sur, California, had a plane to catch, the first leg of a long-planned vacation in northern India.
How Mark Zuckerberg turned against the newsMark Zuckerberg held regular discussions in 2017 and early 2018 about how to make news on Facebook more trustworthy and reliable. These talks started to coalesce around either buying a large, trusted news organization or Facebook starting its own.