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On Your Mark, Get Set... Shake

Want to get the party started quickly? A new book has recipes for drinks that can be made in 60 seconds or less

Lessons in How Not to Fire People

There may not be a good way to fire people. But there absolutely is a bad way.

The Hidden Risks of Chartered Planes

○ Seekers of the jet-set life at a discount price potentially face fatal consequences using illicit operators

Sears's Long Goodbye

@ Finally out of bankruptcy, it faces a changed retail landscape and an uncertain future

We Don't Talk About Sam

FTX was wining and dining its way to becoming a player in the futures industry. It made for an awkward convention

Farming With Google X

The company’s famous moonshot laboratory tackles the challenges of strawberry cultivation

Sustainability American EVs, From the Ground Up

A proposal to reopen a lithium mine is a crucial building block for an all-US battery supply chain

Americans Still Have a Lot of Cash

Just before the pandemic, in the fourth quarter of 2019, American households held about $1 trillion in what was effectively cash—currency and accounts against which checks could be written.

You'll Pay For This

American and European taxpayers are helping maintain Russian superyachts stuck in legal limbo

A Temple of Female Athletic Achievement

A neighborhood watering hole in Portland shows only women’s sports

Can Cineworld Find A Happy Ending?

A costly pre-pandemic expansion landed the world's No.2 theater chain in bankruptcy. Now streaming and a dearth of may seal its fate blockbusters

Left in The Dark

○ Europe’s buying up gas in a big way, causing shortages and blackouts elsewhere

China's New No.2

Li Qiang, a Xi Jinping acolyte, faces major challenges in steering the economy

Governing Just Impossible Again

●The new era in Congress through the lens of the GOP speaker-in-waiting

Can Adobe Change?

The company wants to transform itself by buying Figma, but customers and regulators have concerns

Elon Versus Math

Twitter’s new debt load means it has to make big, risky changes really fast

Support for abortion rights turned out to be a key issue after all

Signs from a protestin Washington, DC, on Oct. 8

Florida doesn't belong just to Trump anymore

There was one surprise loser on election night, and he wasn’t even on the ballot: Donald Trump and his extremist brand of politics.

Europe's Wageflation Hangover

The recent season of strikes at big companies shows workers are determined to boost pay in 2023

Chess Faces Its Al Crisis

High-stakes cheating allegations illustrate how technology complicates ideas of human mastery

Beyond Pickleball

Teqball, a fusion of soccer, pingpong and tennis, is growing in popularity in the US

First Boston Hits the Road

Can an old brand spun out from Credit Suisse find a place on the new Wall Street?

Meta's Moonshot Puzzle

Do investors in Facebook’s parent want to bet on virtual reality, too?

The Zelle Loophole

Small-business owners are using the service to keep income secret from the IRS, though that’s illegal

Peter Thiel's far-right crusade is just getting started

In mid-September, Peter Thiel appeared at the National Conservatism Conference in Miami to offer a bit of advice to the far-right movement that he helped create and for which he serves as the key financial patron. During the speech, Thiel complained that the Republicans had failed to offer a policy agenda to voters.

ONE OF THE MOST HATED EXECS IN GAMING IS HEADING TO THE METAVERSE

John Riccitiello generated billions of dollars for Unity Software by turning mobile games into an advertising wasteland. Now one of the industry’s most controversial figures has plans to bring that same sensibility to the virtual world

Remember the debt ceiling fights? Now add a recession

Americans were already unhappy with the economy of 2022. Republican control of the House threatens to make 2023 worse.

An Abortion Pill Supply Chain—by Mail Order

Indian generic drug makers are drop-shipping the medicines to US women facing local curbs

World of Shocks

Brexit, the US-China trade war, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—more such geopolitical surprises will continue the economic upheaval

HBO and Netflix Went to War and Remade TV

Streaming television’s defining rivalry began with an insult and a sneak attack. An exclusive adaptation from It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO