Stephen Bannon, once Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House—or, as some would have it, puppet master—is attacking the president. And Trump has answered back.
In addition to being a crazy year on the planet, 2017 was my first full year as editor of the Quartz Things team. And while I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, I do find it useful to look backward in order to move forward thoughtfully.
I fed and clothed myself all through college serving people. I waited tables at a fancy restaurant frequented by celebrities and owned by the son of a dead mobster. I lugged oversized mugs of beer up and down stairs wearing a cheerleading outfit at a raucous sports bar. I was tortured by drunk patrons who tipped terribly and lost it every time “Margaritaville” played at a Jersey Shore beachside pub/piano bar.
After much anticipation, Donald Trump’s animatronic likeness debuted at Disney World this week, taking the stage alongside robotic versions of other past US leaders in the theme park’s Hall of Presidents.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has released its annual findings about US teenagers and substance abuse. The big news is that opioid misuse by teens is at historic lows (clearly a good thing). The late-to-the-party news is that young people really like vaping.
America is a young country. We measure our history in decades, sometimes minutes. Last night, history changed when Alabama elected a Democrat, senator Doug Jones, for the first time in 25 years.
Sexual harassment, as women know, is both endemic and widely dismissed. The same patriarchal imbalance of power that allows harassment to occur also silences those who do speak out.
Just imagining faworki makes me crave them. Faworki are the Polish version of the “angel wings” eaten across Europe on Fat Tuesday, prior to Lent—thin ribbons of twisted dough, made crisp from frying them in oil and sweet with a dusting of powdered sugar.
In the wake of the recent high-profile allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace, many companies this year are dialing down the booze if not canceling their holiday parties altogether. For companies going ahead with their office festivities, employees must confront challenging questions in the post-Weinstein era. How can you know if you’ve crossed the line with a coworker? What is considered an appropriate party interaction? Is it even possible for men and women to socialize in a professional setting without sexual entanglements? Add alcohol and office gift exchanges, and the potential for disaster only multiplies.
Irene Rosenfeld isn’t as good at self-promotion as Jack Welch, but she’s every bit as good at developing future CEOs.
The parenting happiness gap is real. The little ones are face-down in devices. The older ones are sucked into social media, having all sorts of sex earlier depending on how you read the statistics. As parents we strive to protect our children from predators, steer them on a path to adulthood that offers a narrow possibility of landing in a good university, all in a world that is Brexit-ing and America First-ing and seemingly crumbling. It’s stressful! What’s a modern parent to do besides hover?
It’s sale season, yet again.Last year’s pants are OUTNothing worsethanlookingforthisyearslateststyle.
IKEA has a history of successfully engaging with its customers, crafting everything from compelling marketing campaigns that redefine domestic bliss in different cultures to hypnotic advertisements built to sooth customers who watch them. But the parents of 2-year-old Jozef Dudek are suing the company, saying their recall of the MALM dresser was poorly publicized. Their son was the 8th child to die after being crushed by an IKEA dresser.
After a fifth woman accused Roy Moore of sexual misbehavior or assault, US senate majority leader and fellow Republican Mitch McConnell urged the Alabama senate nominee to withdraw, saying, “I believe the women.”
It has been exactly a year since the election of US president Donald Trump on Nov. 8, 2016, and graphs showing the level of positivity people get from their family friends reveal one very clear trend over the past 365 days: Down.
This week an employee exiting Twitter shut down President Trump’s account on the way out. This is not fake news, because even President Trump acknowledged it.
Psilocybin—the naturally occurring psychedelic compound in hundreds of kinds mushrooms—has been reported to show promise as a treatment for depression. Now researchers are trying to find out more about how that works.
It can’t all be fun and games for toymakers these days, especially when they’re on the other end of the Toys R Us bankruptcy.
There have been a series of stories recently about how modern teens are delaying adulthood. Headlines responding to new research in Child Development (paywall) say that “Teens are growing up more slowly” and “18 is the new 15.” Apparently, this screen-addled, risk-averse generation is delaying dating, postponing getting a driver’s license, drinking less and having less sex.
There is nothing worse than trying to reach a friend or a relative during a crisis and being sent to voicemail. So as Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida…
Finally tuning in to this totality thing? Don’t have eclipse glasses? If you’re tempted to use Amazon prime to overnight a pair, be wary, the company has recently recalled fakes. And of course, you’ve heard the stories about the permanent damage you can do to your eyes by looking directly into the sun.
On his first day at work, the new White House chief of staff, John Kelly, brought in some order: He pushed Anthony Scaramucci, the flamboyant and divisive new communications director, out of his job. But whether Kelly can impose some discipline on the rest of the Trump administration and its allies in Congress is another matter.
Winter is here. Finally.
First came chief executive officers. Then, chief finance officers. Those were followed by chief operating officers, chief marketing officers, and chief technology officers.
