Quartz Staff

TikTok has altered the contours of the music industry, from artists’ path to stardom to the power of record company executives.

Helping people find love is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, especially during the pandemic.

The pandemic has fueled a burgeoning market for digital tools designed to help colleagues collaborate at a distance. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the future of the digital workplace. 

Travel in 2021 is going to be a stop-and-go journey, as governments and businesses try to figure out an equitable plan to get things back to normal. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on travel in 2021.

People are paying more attention than ever to crafting healthier, happier living spaces. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on finding happiness at home.

The world is not short on advice for how you can be your most productive self. What’s the best way to sort through the noise and determine the approaches that will work for you?

Mindfulness apps are booming as stressed-out people tune in for help coping with a turbulent world. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the business of mindfulness..

Do you have a stock portfolio, retirement account, or pension in the US? You’re probably invested in multiple S&P 500 companies.

As our animals have transformed from our property to our de facto children, a massive and lucrative industry has developed to feed and care for them. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the pet industrial complex.

The unique impact of the coronavirus recession makes a fast recovery possible, but even after the pandemic recedes, the global economy will be facing a myriad of problems.Here’s the TLDR to our guide on how the economy in 2021. 

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic this year was so wide-ranging that it shaped every news event that followed its spread across the planet: the Black Lives Matter protests, a US election with historic turnout, China’s creeping takeover of Hong Kong, and more.

Theaters hoping to survive the coronavirus pandemic are rebooting the moviegoing experience. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on how movie theaters are avoiding extinction. 

Employee activists are transforming the workplace—and making companies better in the process. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the rise of employee activism. 

The return of sports has become a benchmark for the return to normal life. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the great sports comeback. 

Workplaces have gone through enormous change in the last decade, and year. It’s time the management handbook got an update as well.

China’s aggressive form of diplomacy is helping to create a new genre of patriotic political art—and one of the foremost proponents of Beijing’s “wolf warrior” brand of international relations is already making use of it.

The changes to the food system brought on by Covid-19 have been disruptive, disorienting—and, very occasionally, delightful.

In 2020, it’s cool to care. And the changing nature of cool is affecting what shoppers buy, who they follow, and how companies behave.

Silicon Valley lost billions of dollars investing in clean energy a decade ago. Now it’s back for more. Is it the next big boom, or bust?

In a fiercely contested election whose outcome took days to tally, Democratic challenger Joe Biden managed to clinch a victory over incumbent Donald Trump, alongside vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris. In victory speeches on Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, both Biden and Harris emphasized unity and rebuilding American institutions.

In a fiercely contested election whose outcome took days to tally, Democratic challenger Joe Biden managed to clinch a victory over incumbent Donald Trump, alongside vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris. In victory speeches on Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, both Biden and Harris emphasized unity and rebuilding American institutions.

Can the H-1B visa—the primary way the US attracts high-skilled talent—survive American nationalism? Here’s the TLDR to our field guide on the status of the H-1B.

It’s been a pretty scary year for the global economy, marked by a crippling pandemic, mass protests, and a high-stakes US election. But what’s bad for investment portfolios is good for topical Halloween costume ideas.

The world is entering a new, more intense era of fragmentation that is going to change the way the internet works. Here’s the TLDR to our field guide on the splinternet.