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In our latest field guide, we reached out to a range of people to get their insights on the impact of Jeff Bezos on tech, e-commerce, and ma...

Free, next-day delivery of packages is normal. The brick-and-mortar bookstore industry has been decimated. Buying something takes one click....

Turmoil in the bond markets, improving economic indicators, and a raft of government aid has economists and investors wondering: Is inflatio...

The future for millions of Americans working low-wage jobs still looks to be $7.25 an hour.Democrats were pushing to include an increase in...

Birkenstock, maker of what is affectionately deemed the original ugly sandal, has a luxurious new owner.The German company has been acquired...

The $20 trillion Treasury bond market is getting jittery. The question is what is the Federal Reserve going to do about it?As vaccines get j...

As the US House of Representatives prepares to vote on the country’s long-awaited Covid stimulus package, a relatively small (yet highly pop...

The CFO of Chinese technology giant Huawei is suing HSBC in Hong Kong to obtain documents that she believes will help her fight a US extradi...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US House votes on the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. Even if it passes, Senate Re...

The vehicle central to Jeff Bezos’ plans to expand human life into the solar system has been delayed for a second year, and it’s not clear w...

No research is ever complete. That’s something US president Joe Biden will need to keep in mind as he attempts to overhaul the country’s sup...

A record-setting winter storm left many Texas households without power for days last week—and left those who did manage to get power stuck d...

Earlier this year, scores of Indians flocked to Signal overnight after WhatsApp announced an update to its privacy policy. Within a fortnigh...

India’s subject expert committee (SEC) on Covid-19 vaccines has been mercurial in its approval processes.On Feb. 24, India’s drug authority...

There is a lot to be hopeful about with the dawn of the historic African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and its promise to diversify e...

Going by the teaser, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi appears to be a highly stylised version of its source material. The July 30...

Indian incomes were on a downward slope—and then came the pandemic.Household incomes in rural and urban India had begun to shrink from Septe...

DoorDash reported its first earnings report as a public company, providing a glimpse of how the food delivery company has fared during Covid...

Shares of Koss Corp., a maker of headphones, shot up 16.8% to $21.53 today, after an even bigger spike yesterday, making it the latest compa...

A few weeks ago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a startling report: minorities in the US—particularly Lati...

McKinsey & Co. has taken on a sinister reputation in recent years, and not only among the leftists who have long opposed the global consulti...

Gen X is sometimes called the generational “middle child,” a cohort drowned out by Baby Boomers, Millennials, and, more recently, Gen Z. But...

Costco has set a new minimum wage standard: $16 an hour.That puts the warehouse-style retailer, which topped $4 billion in profit in 2020, a...

After a year of enduring trauma and loss on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic, US nursing home operators face another crisis: They’re...

Between 2004 and 2016 there were 20,150 excess deaths in American nursing homes, amounting to an estimated 160,000 lost years of life. The c...