Something seems about to break in the American markets. Sure, yesterday’s US Labor Department jobs report painted a rosy picture: 200,000 jobs were created last…
CLOSE CALL
Photos: A Boeing 737 in Turkey skidded down a hill and stopped just feet from the Black Sea
On Saturday night in Trabzon, Turkey, a Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet skidded off a runway during its landing and almost plunged into the Black…
THAT ARCHIE BUNKER
Facebook is using an old drug dealer tactic to keep its users hooked
Facebook said it’s making some far-reaching changes to what you see in your newsfeed. Soon, when you see a post, it’s more likely to be…
MASS DELUSION
Trump’s enablers are the real culprits in this American tragedy
This week in Washington, an excerpt from a new book on the Trump White House landed like a bombshell. The details were salacious, confirming the…
RESOLVE
The single most important thing you can do in 2018
You’ve read the year-in-review pieces that proliferate around the internet in late December. You know this year was filled with unprecedented shifts and shocks around…
COLD TRUTH
The difference between weather and climate, explained for Donald Trump
There’s always a bit of a question, when it comes to a Donald Trump tweet, whether to rise to the bait. Normally, I advise friends…
THEY'RE USELESS ANYWAY
The most common password is “123456”—but not (entirely) because humans are dumb
Number 16 is “starwars.” Number 71 is “killer.” Number 72, as if in response to killer, is just “aaaaaa.” And half of the top 10…
TOOTING OUR HORN
The 24 best Quartz Ideas stories of 2017
The Ideas section of Quartz has as broad an ambit as Quartz as a whole. (The section exists on Quartzy and Quartz at Work, too.)…
TEA LEAVES
Income inequality is wrecking the world but a great rebalancing may be coming
What is a first world problem? As an American who on Thursday celebrated Thanksgiving, I’ve had a lot of recent opportunities to ask myself that…
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What’s being said about Robert Mueller’s indictments in the Trump-Russia probe
Multiple outlets tonight (Oct. 27) are reporting that Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign and possible Trump…
THE PAST IS NOT AN OPTION
Your memories are idealized versions of a past that never existed
Think about your first memory. It’s probably fairly mundane and from when you were about four years old. I’m in my kitchen, grabbing at the…
Billionaire superheroes won’t save the world
“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” That’s Oscar Wilde in his 1889 essay, “The Decay of Lying.” Considering the most dominant cultural…
