My friend wrote me the other day to tell me her new baby’s name was Nyla. My first reaction was excitement about the miracle of life. My second reaction was that, of course, her baby had a four-letter name.
On Saturday morning (Oct 27.), 11 people were killed at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the seventh mass shooting of 2017 (defined by the Washington Post a lone gunman killing four or more people).
If you could only celebrate one holiday, Halloween or Thanksgiving, which would you choose? A new survey finds it depends a lot on your age.
The CPTPP is ready for takeoff. The trade deal was recently ratified by Canada, and Australia says it will do the same soon. Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore have already ratified it. With six countries on board, the pact will provisionally go into effect.
Update: Leicester City confirmed the death of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others in the helicopter crash.
This coming Friday (Nov. 2), World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is scheduled to hold a major event at the the King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It looks like two of WWE’s biggest start won’t be there.
Rachel Hollis has written a phenomenon. In February, the food blogger and lifestyle guru released Girl, Wash Your Face, a nonfiction title aimed at helping women overcome their insecurities. The book has now sold almost 800,000 print copies, and many more online. It is one of the bestselling new non-fiction books of the decade.
To get a ticket to the World Series, you have to fork up some serious cash. For the 2018 World Series, the face value of tickets run from $141 to $486 in Boston. Tickets on resale markets can be even more expensive. At the time of writing, the cheapest second-hand tickets for game 3 of the series in Los Angeles were $362 on the ticket resale website SeatGeek, with the best seats priced at thousands of dollars.
The US-China trade war rages on. Barring progress in negotiations, 10% tariffs that the US imposed on $200 billion in Chinese goods will increase to 25% as of Jan. 1, 2019.
Are you an American who wishes the US had generous policies like those of Sweden and Norway? Do you look dreamily at Nordic nations’ universal healthcare, protections for the unemployed and generous parental leave policies?
The Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers face off at the start of baseball’s World Series today (Oct. 23). They won’t be in a hurry to finish it.
Currently sitting at number two on the Billboard Hot 100—the US music industry’s most influential ranking chart—is Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams” which opens with the 19-year-old rapper lighting a blunt.
Americans have lottery fever. They were intentionally infected.
US conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly was ousted from his massively watched news show last year after revelations that he paid millions in settlement money to women who accused him of sexual harassment. In one moment, he lost access to nearly 4 million nightly viewers.
If a popular artist sells out their show, they have likely made a big mistake. Although sold out concerts sound good and are often used to assess the success of an event, they are mostly just a sign that prices were set too low. The winner is not the artist or the fans, but scalpers and ticket resale companies like StubHub.
In August 2018, the Indian actress Priyanka Chopra announced she was engaged to the American pop singer Nick Jonas. The 36-year-old Chopra is more than 10 years older than Jonas, who just turned 26. According to friends, Jonas likes it that way, as he prefers older women. Increasingly, he is not alone.
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler did not see this coming. The authors of Nudge, a seminal book about how behavioral economics can help improve public policy, had a hard time even finding a publisher. Ultimately, it came out in April 2008.
When you hear a claim like “tourism is the world’s largest industry,” a natural question follows: Says who?
If you’re a young person in Nigeria, there’s a good chance you’re out of work. A whopping 40% of people between the ages of 25-34 were unemployed in 2017, according to the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. As the country’s population continues to grow—the median age of in the country is only 18—the economy is struggling to create jobs at a sufficiently fast pace.
Economist Paul Romer, a co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics, is many things.
Americans are not getting much of a raise, but they certainly are getting to work more.
On October 6th, tens of thousands of high school students with take the SAT. For many of them, it’s won’t be the first time. From 2006 to 2014, about 54% of students who took the college entrance exam retook it at least once.
Spirituality is now firmly placed in mainstream culture. The growing interest in astrology driven by millennials, as well as the popularity of crystals and tarot cards via the ballooning wellness industry, have brought mysticism from the fringes, and right into your Instagram feed.
Americans are spending increasingly lavishly on their pets.
