View OriginalHow to Think About Boeing’s Recent Safety IssuesFlying is still extremely safe. But Boeing’s safety issues are real.
View OriginalA ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Start-up Changing EverythingSuno AI wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs with artificial intelligence — but what does that mean for artists?
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 OriginalThe Age of Flash FadsWhy Americans are suddenly obsessed with mundane items like cups and tote bags.
View OriginalWhy Reddit is going publicReddit users will be able to buy shares in the social media platform when it goes public next week. Dubbed the "front page of the internet", Reddit is "gearing up for its much-anticipated stock market debut". It could reach a valuation of up to $6.
View OriginalPublishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad For EverybodyThere are only two reasons to get into book publishing: the books (that’s how they get us formerly idealistic English majors) and the people (the other weirdos who also got gotten by the books).
View OriginalHow Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ EmotionsAn illuminated manuscript illustration of Marie de France, a 12th-century poet Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Medieval Europe was a place of great emotional incontinence, so much so that historian Johan Huizinga once claimed, “Modern man has … no idea of the unrestrained extravagance of the
View OriginalThe real scandal in Formula 1 is its attitude toward womenThe Christian Horner alleged sexting scandal isn’t just gossip. It reflects the sport’s systemic misogyny. The line between spectacle and sport has always been blurry.
View OriginalThis Guy Got Shredded by Trusting a New ProcessMark Leruste, 39, is a speaker and leadership coach living in South London. He's the founder of Ministry of Purpose, author of Glow in the Dark, and host of The Unconventionalists podcast.
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 OriginalA famed economist who called the 2008 recession warns the S&P 500 is as vulnerable as it was before its 25% fall in 2022 — and shares 3 signs of hidden weaknessDavid Rosenberg isn't giving up on his stock-market bubble call.
View OriginalPlaytron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the worldHandhelds are the future of gaming — but there are reasons the category hasn’t exploded yet. The Nintendo Switch is locked down, Windows can be cumbersome, and Valve’s pick-up-and-play SteamOS hasn’t yet escaped the Steam Deck.
View OriginalThe Golden Age of American Jews Is EndingAnti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.
View OriginalA Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American MallThe first enclosed shopping mall appeared in the United States in 1956, in Southdale, outside Minneapolis.
View OriginalI built up an Etsy store to give me a way out from my stressful day job. I quit, and my store made $347,000 last year.This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Christina Umerez, a 28-year-old Etsy seller from Toronto. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Etsy is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes patience and hard work.