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Exactly one year ago, when India had just 519 cases of coronavirus, the government had decided to impose what was one of the most stringent...

A year of the Covid-19 pandemic in India has already created a lasting legacy.Street art, whether in the form of homages to Covid-19 healthc...

Working from home during the pandemic might make people stir-crazy, but it could be good for the planet. A significant share of companies’ c...

Obamacare has never been more successful. It’s also never been more obviously unsustainable.In the wake of Covid-19 and the subsequent rise...

Until yesterday, Zara’s parent company, Inditex, had a statement on its website stating the company’s zero-tolerance policy for forced labor...

The Chinese internet and Beijing’s state propaganda have lit up in collective outrage.  This time, it’s directed at two major foreign brands...

A year ago, as cases and death rates skyrocketed worldwide and Western countries implemented their first Covid-19 lockdowns, the question of...

Walking remains the main mode of transport in many sub-Saharan African cities, especially among low-income residents in informal settlements...

Europeans have had a very tough time with the coronavirus—physically, economically, but also psychologically.After China, Europe quickly bec...

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Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe UK and EU want a “win-win” over vaccine supplies. US president Joe Biden is als...

A year ago, on March 25, 2020, my home had no masks. It was the first day of India’s complete Covid-19 lockdown, and the reality of what “st...

I press down on the pedal, and the back of my three-wheeler rears up slightly as if to fling me into the street. The hum of the electric mot...

As a Black person, the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and too many others last summer in the US left me feeling heartbroken, furio...

Just when the Indian economy was getting back on track after a jolt due to the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation has come to play spoilsport.Afte...

A year since the day India went into an abrupt lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, life has gone back to normal for most urban middl...

An enormous container ship by the name of Ever Given has been stuck in the Suez Canal since Tuesday, and the bottleneck of marine traffic cr...

After more than a dozen countries in the EU suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over precautionary safety concerns, it final...

Everything you need to know about the festival of Holi in five minutes or less including, how it began, how to celebrate, and whether you sh...

Things were looking good for movie theaters. The vaccine rollout in the US was speeding up, cinemas were finally reopening in major markets...

Robinhood, the brokerage that has become a byword for the boom in retail trading, is planning to go public. Like many companies that embark...

H&M is facing a harsh backlash in China over a year-old statement it made expressing concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang.On Weibo, a lar...

For the most anticipated earnings event of the year to date, GameStop’s call with analysts on Tuesday night was something of a damp squib.So...

Low visibility and 40-knot winds during a sandstorm has grounded a container ship on the Suez Canal—completely blocking the important shippi...

The office is not an inherently hilarious place (unless you happen to be referring to the beloved British and American TV series, in which c...