Month: December 2020

Normally at this time of year, most of us are concerned with figuring out our New Year’s resolutions (that we probably won’t keep beyond the first week of January). But as every single person knows, 2020 was not a normal year, and this is not a normal New Year’s Eve. Instead of resolutions, this might […]

Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose famous name embossed everything from wristwatches to bedsheets after his iconic Space Age styles shot him into the fashion stratosphere in the 1960s, has died, the French Academy of Fine Arts said Tuesday. He was 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin’s name went on thousands of products and in the […]

In 2020, working women suffered unprecedented losses, facing both disproportionate job loss and a mushrooming of caregiving responsibilities—a combination that could ultimately roll back much of the progress women have made in the workforce over the past years and decades. But, with a new year, a new presidential administration, and a coronavirus vaccine on the […]

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Many of the Asian countries with the most admirable COVID-19 responses share borders with and receive frequent travelers from China, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. A combination of early travel restrictions, mass testing, […]

As editors feverishly put to bed any remaining “Best of 2020” lists, work is well underway to review all the new books arriving in 2021. (Yes, 2020 is, mercifully, almost over.) Here is a sampling of nonfiction and fiction titles to consider reading as they will be published in the first half of 2021. “World […]

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. U.S. President Donald Trump last week signed into law the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, allowing the U.S. to remove foreign firms from U.S. stock exchanges if they don’t comply with auditing requirements. The legislation […]

With winter fully underway and stay-at-home orders back in place in many regions, you might be looking for some new (or at least, new to you) content to stream. Maybe you have some vacation days to kill, or just want something to put on in the background while working from home. Either way, these documentaries, […]

A majority of the American labor force are high-school graduates without college degrees. They have been falling behind economically for well more than a generation: Their median real wage has dropped 12.3% since 1979, while the median wage of those holding college degrees has increased 14.4%. Overall, barely one-third of those without college educations now earn the […]

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Tonight’s the night: Saturn and Jupiter will appear closer in the night sky than they have in centuries, in an astronomical event called a conjunction. The gas giants, the solar system’s two largest planets, will […]

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent the cryptocurrency world into a tizzy this weekend with a series of tweets about Bitcoin and a lesser-known currency called Dogecoin. His remarks caused the price of the latter, which […]