4/30/2019 - I was denied my vote in this Indian election because of my wheelchair

4/30/2019 - Why it’s so hard to tell if we are seeing a coup in Venezuela

4/30/2019 - Japan’s new emperor, Apple’s iPhone plunge, Facebook redesign

4/30/2019 - With its new parental leave policy, HPE puts Silicon Valley on notice

4/30/2019 - Apple doesn’t need you to buy a new iPhone anymore

4/30/2019 - What Victoria’s Secret can learn from SI’s burkini move

4/30/2019 - You’ll now be able to buy products directly from Instagram influencers

4/30/2019 - Ellipses

4/30/2019 - Indians who don’t like any candidate have a better choice than not voting

4/30/2019 - The Toyota Sienna is the most popular car for diplomats in the US

4/30/2019 - Your Facebook is about to change in a big way

4/30/2019 - Facebook is trying to make VR a thing… again

4/30/2019 - Team Trump has found a news outlet even more fawning than Fox News

4/30/2019 - The US government is hiring pit-bull whisperers for dogfighting raids

4/30/2019 - Chase’s controversial tweet about making coffee at home is actually good advice

4/30/2019 - Companies that worked with Trump are squeezed between Congress and the White House

4/30/2019 - Canada’s black market for weed is thriving—even after legalization

4/30/2019 - Fanny-pack Crocs are ridiculous, but also part of why the brand is thriving

4/30/2019 - 70% of top male earners in the US have a spouse who stays home

4/30/2019 - The secret feminist history of illustrating plant life

4/30/2019 - The “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie promises pure 1990s Jim Carrey nostalgia

4/30/2019 - The one number to look at in Apple’s earnings report

4/30/2019 - How to convince a room full of people you’re smart

4/30/2019 - This tropical getaway has Airbnb’s top occupied listings in Africa

4/30/2019 - Two of Africa’s biggest telcos have expanded across Africa at the expense of poor South Africans

4/30/2019 - More than 100 maritime CEOs want to fight climate change by slowing down ships

4/30/2019 - The economic concept that explains why young people are having less sex

4/30/2019 - What’s next for the marvel cinematic universe? Phase 4 revealed

4/30/2019 - Elizabeth Warren has a very timely grudge with Joe Biden

4/30/2019 - iFinex’s financial acrobatics and E-Trade

4/30/2019 - The fantastically bland Instagram of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon

4/30/2019 - Facebook in focus, Japan’s Akihito abdicates, burkini shoots

4/30/2019 - Why these countries are building new capitals from scratch

4/30/2019 - Boeing has a puzzling explanation for why a “standalone” warning signal didn’t work

4/30/2019 - Avengers became the biggest movie franchise in the world by acting like a TV show

4/30/2019 - The rising stars in Silicon Valley politics

4/30/2019 - What is this potato that PepsiCo is obsessing over in India?

4/30/2019 - Crypto’s next victims might be Tether traders

4/30/2019 - The scion of one of India’s biggest conglomerates was arrested for possessing drugs

4/30/2019 - Italian monuments to porn stars: Indian fake news is now plain absurd

4/30/2019 - The IPL cricket tournament already has a winner: Vivo

4/30/2019 - This digital payments system from India is becoming a role model for many countries

4/30/2019 - Indian Army says it has spotted Yeti’s giant footprints in the Himalayas, tweets proof

4/30/2019 - Akihito’s abdication, Trump sues Deutsche Bank, burkini shoots

4/29/2019 - Game of Thrones’ Night King was just one big, blue, icy MacGuffin

4/29/2019 - Akihito’s abdication, Alphabet earnings, slushie fund

4/29/2019 - Alphabet’s Other Bets shows the cost of starting three businesses

4/29/2019 - Cellphones now outnumber the world’s population

4/29/2019 - Michael Milken is the “junk bond king” everywhere except on MikeMilken.com

4/29/2019 - Our “Game of Thrones” poll accurately predicted the first death in the Battle of Winterfell

4/29/2019 - The profound and peculiar sport of competitive air guitar

4/29/2019 - Keyboards

4/29/2019 - Some voting booths in India have an all-female staff and childcare facilities

4/29/2019 - Create your own “Game of Thrones” season 8 death pool for episode 4

4/29/2019 - Watch: The beluga whale that Russia could be training for naval duty

4/29/2019 - It’s not too late to get your MBA, thanks to online learning

4/29/2019 - Quiz: Are you at a Very Important Global Conference™?

4/29/2019 - Boeing’s muddled mission statement foretold the company’s current crisis 

4/29/2019 - All the box office records that “Avengers: Endgame” instantly annihilated

4/29/2019 - For fishermen in this BJP stronghold, pollution is a bigger enemy than Pakistan

4/29/2019 - If you have a hard time saying “no” to meetings, let software do it for you

4/29/2019 - Journalists could change the way we think about vaccines in one powerful way

4/29/2019 - A Chinese ride-hailing company bought billboards in Times Square to complain about faulty Teslas

4/29/2019 - Southern India is bracing for its worst storm in 13 years

4/29/2019 - Alphabet’s latest score, “Avengers” breaks records, celebrating slackers

4/29/2019 - The H-1B visa has pumped billions of dollars into training Americans

4/29/2019 - How challenging the powerful global palm oil industry forced a Liberian lawyer into exile

4/29/2019 - Married, childless women still face a “motherhood penalty” at work

4/29/2019 - Today in membership: Silicon Valley goes to Washington

4/29/2019 - Silicon Valley is a political force, or five of them

4/29/2019 - What’s worse than a bleeding airline? A bleeding airline with a software glitch

4/29/2019 - Despite widespread joblessness, this Indian state’s voters were obsessed with a temple

4/29/2019 - Jet Airways’ problems are far bigger than just the Rs11,000 crore it owes the banks

4/29/2019 - Who failed Jet Airways’ 20,000 employees—owners or banks?

4/29/2019 - China-Russia drills, Spain’s Socialists, celebrating slackers

4/28/2019 - Why north Indian states like Rajasthan, UP, and Bihar are underrepresented in parliament

4/28/2019 - This YouTuber is helping Indian fans make sense of Game of Thrones—in Hindi

4/28/2019 - New legislation could penalize Hong Kong residents for breaking laws that don’t yet exist

4/28/2019 - Hong Kong protests, Alphabet earnings, celebrating slackers

4/28/2019 - Chinese leaders are citing “Game of Thrones” in meetings

4/28/2019 - A far-right Spanish party is making headway for the first time since General Franco’s death

4/28/2019 - Nearly 300 ballot counters have died of exhaustion following the world’s biggest election

4/28/2019 - Chinese electric car maker BYD reports 632% jump in profits as Tesla falters

4/28/2019 - Pepsi is suing Indian farmers for growing special spuds designed for Lay’s chips

4/28/2019 - Is this the last call for Japan’s afterwork “nominication” drinking culture?

4/28/2019 - Mark Zuckerberg built Priscilla Chan a screen-free bedside alarm

4/28/2019 - Make the world a better place by using these rarely heard words

4/28/2019 - Africa’s largest mosque has been completed with thanks to China

4/28/2019 - Fake heiress “Anna Delvey” faces criminal sentencing and a Netflix series

4/28/2019 - A stranded dolphin in Florida shows why plastic bags are the worst

4/28/2019 - The two types of creativity that peak at different ages

4/28/2019 - Why do Election 2020’s male candidates get better coverage than women?

4/28/2019 - Benin’s government has shut the internet ahead of an election that has no opposition

4/28/2019 - Zimbabwe’s farmer problem, China’s African Belt and Road, malaria’s optimistic vaccine

4/28/2019 - Can cheap fashion ever be ethical?

4/27/2019 - The new malaria vaccine program for African children is promising but still quite limited  

4/27/2019 - Over 13% of the homes in Japan are abandoned

4/27/2019 - Five things Tesla CEO Elon Musk can still safely tweet about

4/27/2019 - Weekend edition—Simplified genetics, Sri Lanka response, “Old Town Road” beat

4/27/2019 - Weekend edition—Simplified genetics, Sri Lanka response, “Old Town Road” beat

4/27/2019 - “Avengers: Endgame” is on track for the largest opening weekend ever

4/27/2019 - Trump just turned the NFL Draft into a political battlefield

4/27/2019 - South Africa’s Freedom Day is a reminder of its unfinished business and stark inequality

4/27/2019 - This week, it paid to put your money in pizza, candy, and Coke

4/27/2019 - A Brigham Young University valedictorian says he is “proud to be a gay son of God”

4/27/2019 - Wildlife overpasses that protect animals from cars are spreading globally

4/27/2019 - Uber’s stunning journey to a $90 billion IPO changed transportation forever

4/27/2019 - Zozo’s grand experiment in cheap, customized clothing was ahead of its time

4/27/2019 - Japan’s foreign worker boom has put one profession in high demand

4/27/2019 - The biggest problem with at-home genetic testing services is hiding in plain sight

4/27/2019 - Here’s how to cancel subscriptions on your iPhone

4/27/2019 - Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods burgers could change the way we think about masculinity

4/27/2019 - The age of the Influencer has peaked. It’s time for the slacker to rise again

4/27/2019 - The life and reign of Japan’s Emperor Akihito, in photos

4/27/2019 - Radiohead’s “OK Computer” unexpectedly set me on the path to meet my wife

4/26/2019 - Slack’s complicated relationship with email, according to its IPO filing

4/26/2019 - Watch: Many of us are taking genetic tests, but how much are we really learning?

4/26/2019 - Weekend edition—Simplified genetics, Sri Lanka response, “Old Town Road” beat

4/26/2019 - The Bauhaus

4/26/2019 - The secretive society of master craftspeople tasked with repairing Notre Dame

4/26/2019 - Quartzy: the contact high edition

4/26/2019 - Uber is heading into its IPO with engine trouble

4/26/2019 - Russia is flying reconnaissance across America as US struggles to stay in the air

4/26/2019 - Spanish vermouth makes a perfect aperitif, with or without tapas

4/26/2019 - Angel investors are bridging the widening funding gap between Anglophone and Francophone Africa

4/26/2019 - The benefits of having a fuck-off fund

4/26/2019 - Major tech companies want to remain anonymous while criticizing the automation of criminal justice

4/26/2019 - Africa’s resource-rich nations are getting even more reliant on China for their exports

4/26/2019 - Our conference call starts in 15 minutes

4/26/2019 - The Google spreadsheet with over 12,000 salaries—and counting

4/26/2019 - It’s boom time in America! For now.

4/26/2019 - The quantum mechanics of “Avengers: Endgame,” fact-checked by scientists

4/26/2019 - This CEO explains what a functional US family care system would look like

4/26/2019 - From Biggie to Kendrick Lamar: outtakes from hip-hop’s most iconic photos

4/26/2019 - The warmest, softest, fluffiest facts about pretzels

4/26/2019 - We followed Lil Nas X’s steps to make the next “Old Town Road”

4/26/2019 - Uber’s IPO plans, Kim slams the US, royal cheese

4/26/2019 - Today in membership

4/26/2019 - The ethical and legal implications of having a universal genetic database

4/26/2019 - Photos: Remembering Michael Wolf, whose photographs captured Hong Kong’s dizzying density

4/26/2019 - A perfumer and a Swiss artist distil the raw scents of India

4/26/2019 - British scientists have turned to crowdsourcing to better understand climate change

4/26/2019 - This Indian politician—not Modi or Gandhi—is making the best use of Twitter

4/26/2019 - Karachi in photos: The chaos and contradictions of a heaving megacity

4/26/2019 - One chart shows how Jet’s loss is IndiGo, SpiceJet’s gain

4/26/2019 - Over 10 voters have died amid history’s biggest election—and it’s not even halfway done

4/26/2019 - Gold smugglers are swindling billions of dollars from African nations

4/26/2019 - Spanish elections, Mozambique cyclone, royal cheese

4/26/2019 - Avengers: Endgame is already breaking Hollywood’s records in India

4/25/2019 - India’s largest carmaker will stop selling diesel cars from April 2020

4/25/2019 - Create your own “Game of Thrones” season 8 death pool

4/25/2019 - To beat Starbucks, Luckin Coffee plans to open a store in China every 3.5 hours

4/25/2019 - Japan’s reluctant princess enters the limelight: Meet empress Masako

4/25/2019 - Amazon wants to replace free two-day shipping with free one-day shipping

4/25/2019 - A “Twin Peaks” plot point featuring a parrot came to life in Brazilian true crime

4/25/2019 - Abe tours North America, Amazon delivers, royal cheese

4/25/2019 - Tom’s Restaurant

4/25/2019 - Airbnb has a surprisingly good reason to join the streaming wars

4/25/2019 - SpaceX’s test failure shows exactly how spacecraft get made

4/25/2019 - Why Joe Biden punctuates like your parents

4/25/2019 - More than 20 million kids miss out on the first dose of the measles vaccine every year

4/25/2019 - Lululemon is getting into the sneaker business

4/25/2019 - 2020 Democratic campaign launch videos in 10 words or less

4/25/2019 - These six cities have the cleanest air in the US

4/25/2019 - We are closer than ever to making drones safe for our skies

4/25/2019 - The Parkland school shooter is coming into a small fortune

4/25/2019 - China wants to use the power of global media to dispel Belt and Road debt risks

4/25/2019 - These are the US cities with the worst air pollution

4/25/2019 - Whole Foods will celebrate the new royal baby with a “vibrant orange” cheddar cheese

4/25/2019 - You might not have heard of Fanatics yet—but it’s taking over sports apparel one league at a time

4/25/2019 - Is student debt really a problem?

4/25/2019 - The best day to get married is a Tuesday in January

4/25/2019 - Zuckerberg and Warren want to fix Big Tech in different ways—and neither of them will work

4/25/2019 - What cars do embassies use?

4/25/2019 - This US mayor joked cops should “mount .50-caliber” guns where AI predicts crime

4/25/2019 - Combing for ether and a billionaire’s bad crypto bet

4/25/2019 - Data analytics have devalued NFL running backs

4/25/2019 - Why Trump makes a 76-year-old white man look like the Democrats’ best chance

4/25/2019 - How to become a faster and better decision maker

4/25/2019 - How to avoid infection if you’re visiting a malaria region

4/25/2019 - Tesla says it won’t be profitable until Q3, and it only has itself to blame

4/25/2019 - Biden enters the fray, Kim meets Putin, commemorative air

4/25/2019 - Who should bear the cost of shopping bags—the retailer or the shopper?

4/25/2019 - An ambitious drone delivery health service in Ghana is tackling key logistics challenges

4/25/2019 - DNA ancestry tests distort our view of race and humanity

4/25/2019 - A thief is “combing” the ethereum blockchain and draining weakly protected wallets

4/25/2019 - Here’s a list of Indian politicians backing the LGBTQ community

4/25/2019 - Meet the new kid in town who wants to buy Jet Airways

4/25/2019 - Twitter is sleepwalking through this Indian election

4/25/2019 - Bollywood is doing some heavy lifting, mostly for India’s ruling party, this election

4/25/2019 - Macron’s reforms, Kim meets Putin, commemorative air

4/25/2019 - Jet employees left in the lurch are getting help from all corners

4/24/2019 - Tesla is burning cash at a frightening pace

4/24/2019 - Boeing and Facebook numbers, Mueller-inspired subpoenas, commemorative air

4/24/2019 - Microsoft is closing in on becoming a $10 billion-a-quarter cloud company

4/24/2019 - “Desk-less” organizations are finding creative ways to adapt Slack for their needs

4/24/2019 - Boeing says there was “no technical slip or gap” in the 737 Max

4/24/2019 - Female parakeets don’t like pairing up with dummies

4/24/2019 - The Ben Franklin effect

4/24/2019 - Mexico has its own immigration crisis

4/24/2019 - Fear and loathing in the Amazon Mother’s Day Gift Shop

4/24/2019 - For $500 million, Rivian will teach Ford how to make electric vehicles

4/24/2019 - The Kohl’s-Amazon partnership is great news for Kohl’s—and even better news for Amazon

4/24/2019 - Elmo is joining the ranks of scientists and wellbeing experts asking you to put down your phone

4/24/2019 - Quartz Weekly: the largest election in human history, astro-mice, and Gen Z in the workplace

4/24/2019 - Moscow just made it easier for Ukrainians to become Russian

4/24/2019 - MTN will list on the Nigerian Stock Exchange—but not through an anticipated IPO

4/24/2019 - A future AI park in Malaysia shows how criticism is changing China’s foreign investment

4/24/2019 - How Nigerian universities can reverse their years of decline

4/24/2019 - An Indian court lifts the ban on downloading TikTok

4/24/2019 - Big Oil’s expected $5-trillion investment will blow past global climate goals

4/24/2019 - Risk-taking can be hard for women–but worth it, says this philanthropist

4/24/2019 - The fossils of Africa’s ‘big lion’ were hidden in a drawer in the Kenyan museum

4/24/2019 - New video game consoles will kill future retro gaming culture

4/24/2019 - What recession? The S&P 500 is at an all-time high

4/24/2019 - Video games probably aren’t bad for boys, but it’s a different story for girls

4/24/2019 - Photos: Kim Jong Un arrives in Russia for a summit with Putin

4/24/2019 - Facebook expects to be hit with a $5 billion FTC fine. Wall Street is thrilled

4/24/2019 - Boeing checks in, “Christchurch Call,” dragon slaying

4/24/2019 - Scientists say we can’t be certain why Lake Chad is shrinking

4/24/2019 - Meal kits may be a greener alternative to grocery shopping

4/24/2019 - Garrett Popcorn is suing a former employee for stealing trade secrets

4/24/2019 - Agnès Varda showed us how to find the beauty in ordinary things

4/24/2019 - What to do if someone in your office has the measles

4/24/2019 - Why success of electric vehicles in India rests on the overhaul of the power sector

4/24/2019 - Moby Dick: Or, the imprecision of genetic testing

4/24/2019 - Just like its tickets, Avengers merch is selling like hot cakes in India

4/24/2019 - Who really controls a tech company once it goes public

4/24/2019 - This easy tool will help you decide if you should take an at-home genetic test

4/24/2019 - There’s a growing chorus across Africa to regulate and tax Airbnb

4/24/2019 - In 2018, Indians applied for a record one million Schengen visas

4/24/2019 - Priyanka Chaturvedi: The unabashedly ambitious foot soldier Congress lost last week

4/24/2019 - Why Indian Muslims don’t react to aggressive Hindutva politics

4/24/2019 - Facing #MeToo allegation, Indian chief justice says judges are now wary of hiring female staffers

4/24/2019 - Facebook political ads show Modi is still king of social media in India

4/24/2019 - Kim Jong Un in Russia, Christchurch Call, dragon slaying

4/24/2019 - Hong Kong is sending its “Umbrella 9” democracy leaders to prison

4/23/2019 - Market rally, Trump’s tax returns, buzzy words

4/23/2019 - American barns are being pillaged by thieves with a taste for rustic chic

4/23/2019 - Inside the quest to save the banana from extinction

4/23/2019 - The Pentagon is preparing to spend $8 billion on Trump’s wall

4/23/2019 - White-out

4/23/2019 - Waymo is turning to Detroit to build its first self-driving car factory

4/23/2019 - The rise in Americans saying they are bisexual is driven by women

4/23/2019 - A new Stanford study shows the economic cost of climate change is more global inequality

4/23/2019 - An MIT researcher demonstrated how we can now search the internet through a wearable “sticker”

4/23/2019 - Prepare for “Avengers: Endgame”: Every Marvel movie, ranked and explained

4/23/2019 - What makes us African is our exclusive focus on African consumers, says Jumia’s co-founder

4/23/2019 - Alphabet is about to make drone deliveries a reality in the US

4/23/2019 - As Harley hits the skids, Trump threatens tariffs as payback for the tariffs imposed as payback for his tariffs

4/23/2019 - Bobi Wine is detained again as his political star keeps rising in Uganda

4/23/2019 - There’s only one acceptable time to use the royal “we”

4/23/2019 - Getting married in your 30s is the new normal

4/23/2019 - Should citizenship be a question on the US census?

4/23/2019 - Rahul Gandhi may think Wayanad is a safe seat, but the local Communists disagree

4/23/2019 - The designer baby debate could start a war

4/23/2019 - The soothing, hypnotic colors of tulip season, seen from above

4/23/2019 - Which Democrat “won” last night’s presidential town hall?

4/23/2019 - The Samsung Galaxy Fold is a flawed glimpse at the future

4/23/2019 - It turns out even light exercise can undo the harm caused by sitting

4/23/2019 - Why faking positive emotions at work can lead to heavier alcohol consumption

4/23/2019 - Your inner Avenger can help you get over imposter syndrome

4/23/2019 - Andrew Yang’s crypto platform and cash advances

4/23/2019 - Photos: A Tesla Gigafactory rises in Shanghai

4/23/2019 - The NFL Draft has become one of the biggest events in American sports

4/23/2019 - Trump’s tax return battle, Sri Lanka mourns, otter craze

4/23/2019 - A Brown economist’s guide to making informed choices about raising your kids

4/23/2019 - What presidential hopeful Andrew Yang gets right—and wrong—about blockchain

4/23/2019 - Big ancestry testing companies fail people of color—but smaller organizations can help

4/23/2019 - From Coldplay private shows to Ronaldo’s yacht, here’s how Crazy Rich Indians holiday

4/23/2019 - Five instances that bear out the BJP’s anti-Muslim stance on the campaign trail

4/23/2019 - African healthcare systems are in an arms race with a rising fake medicine problem

4/23/2019 - For the first time, an Indian state has kept the elections clean and green

4/23/2019 - Two charts explain why Indian election 2019 is unlike any other

4/23/2019 - How other Indian airlines are playing the Jet Airways crisis

4/23/2019 - Brexit returns, Sri Lanka mourns, otter craze

4/23/2019 - Myanmar won’t free the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who uncovered a massacre

4/23/2019 - Indian businesses have made even the national election a promotional vehicle

4/22/2019 - From murderers to rioters, this phase of Indian elections is awash with criminals

4/22/2019 - The official PDF of the Mueller report has been updated in a subtle but important way

4/22/2019 - Tesla said its cars will be self-driving by 2019. We’ve heard this before.

4/22/2019 - Myanmar court ruling, Iran oil sanctions, tastier clothes

4/22/2019 - This new US airport screening camera would see too much

4/22/2019 - TED’s fundraising masterclass teaches you how to raise millions for your nonprofit

4/22/2019 - SpaceX blew up a Dragon spacecraft over the weekend

4/22/2019 - Plant-based meat companies have an identity crisis on their hands

4/22/2019 - Raghul Gandhi is up against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad

4/22/2019 - Bricks

4/22/2019 - The net impact of Trump’s new NAFTA is probably nothing

4/22/2019 - Cuba’s entrepreneurs are under attack by Donald Trump

4/22/2019 - “Game of Thrones” leaned hard into fan service—and it totally worked

4/22/2019 - Your iCloud is actually AmazonCloud

4/22/2019 - Samsung is postponing the release of the Galaxy Fold

4/22/2019 - The killing of a Cameroonian WHO doctor is another setback in DR Congo’s Ebola battle

4/22/2019 - An immersive art installation lets you see, smell and feel the toxic fog of polluted cities

4/22/2019 - Arya’s first sex scene marks a striking shift for “Game of Thrones”

4/22/2019 - Zimbabwe’s plan to compensate white farmers is facing a backlash from party loyalists and the farmers

4/22/2019 - Supporting minority women in the workplace means tailoring development programs to their needs

4/22/2019 - Watch: Some of the best moments at TED happened in between the talks

4/22/2019 - Apple employs an in-house philosopher but won’t let him talk to the press

4/22/2019 - Corporate water sustainability goals are mostly just talk

4/22/2019 - Tesla on show, Sri Lanka bombings, Earth Day tip

4/22/2019 - Botanists rediscover a rare Hawaiian flower thought to be extinct—thanks to a drone

4/22/2019 - Today in membership: The rise of the gene readers

4/22/2019 - The rise of the gene readers

4/22/2019 - Modi’s BJP now has a candidate accused of terrorism. Here’s why that’s a serious problem

4/22/2019 - Why are Sri Lankan Christians the latest target of hate crimes?

4/22/2019 - Inside a Congress IT war room: Facebook and localisation are the key

4/22/2019 - The Modi versus Gandhi battle has completely eclipsed local candidates in India’s elections

4/22/2019 - How the crackdown on porn in India has intensified

4/22/2019 - Iranian oil imports, Sri Lanka bombings, Earth Day tip

4/22/2019 - A video showed a parked Tesla Model S exploding in Shanghai

4/21/2019 - Shashi Tharoor is astonished at how effectively the BJP is eating into his voter base

4/21/2019 - From polls to pubs, Indians are high on Game of Thrones

4/21/2019 - China’s games, comedian-turned-president, Earth Day tip

4/21/2019 - The symbolism of Passover’s food prohibitions is relevant to everyone

4/21/2019 - A 600-pound alligator measuring 11 feet invaded a Florida neighborhood

4/21/2019 - Ukraine’s newly elected president already plays the role on TV

4/21/2019 - The best thing you can do on Earth Day is sit perfectly still

4/21/2019 - Books are cool precisely because we don’t need them anymore

4/21/2019 - Meet the man responsible for restoring the art in Notre Dame cathedral. He’s the insurance agent

4/21/2019 - Easter Sunday bombings blast the peace in Sri Lanka, killing more than 200 at churches and hotels

4/21/2019 - Women’s protests in photos, Cyclone Idai’s numbers, Netflix’s first African cartoon

4/21/2019 - A dozen delicious ways to eat boiled eggs

4/20/2019 - Weekend edition—Autonomous vehicles, MacKenzie Bezos, boring weed

4/20/2019 - Weekend edition—Autonomous vehicles, MacKenzie Bezos, boring weed

4/20/2019 - How Western universities are changing to meet the needs of their many Chinese students

4/20/2019 - Not all Easter eggs need dyeing—some are naturally blue

4/20/2019 - The “freest person in the world” faces a possible death penalty in Thailand

4/20/2019 - What the FeesMustFall generation can learn from Steve Biko’s student resistance trial

4/20/2019 - A cyber-attack in Japan could now bring the US into war

4/20/2019 - Immigrants are being denied US citizenship for smoking legal pot

4/20/2019 - Republicans have spent at least $4.7 million at Trump properties since he took office

4/20/2019 - Electric vehicles will shine in a fuel crisis—just ask Portuguese Tesla owners

4/20/2019 - What the autonomous vehicles industry should learn from the Boeing 737 Max crisis

4/20/2019 - Socrates’ ancient philosophy shows why moral posturing on social media is so annoying

4/20/2019 - A psychology experiment unexpectedly discovered a man who can’t cooperate because of brain damage

4/20/2019 - NASA is working on a camera that could save humanity from extinction

4/20/2019 - Without the Great Calculator Race of the 1970s, there would be no iPhone

4/20/2019 - These weed pens promise to make you feel as sexy, social, or sleepy as you like

4/20/2019 - 4/20 has completely lost its chill

4/20/2019 - Lack of access to sufficient food may be damaging Indian children’s ability to learn

4/20/2019 - This candidate from Modi’s BJP faces over 200 criminal cases and says all politics is communal

4/19/2019 - Weekend edition—Autonomous vehicles, MacKenzie Bezos, boring weed

4/19/2019 - How we can make the world a better place for immigrants with disabilities

4/19/2019 - Watch: Why people are hiding money in the US

4/19/2019 - A German wine punch that’s perfect for spring

4/19/2019 - Why does it look like birds were circling the flames of Notre Dame?

4/19/2019 - Uber raised $1 billion for self-driving cars because it desperately needs the money

4/19/2019 - Ancestry just pulled a TV commercial romanticizing a slavery-era interracial couple

4/19/2019 - Maslow’s pyramid of needs

4/19/2019 - Jumia’s successful billion-dollar IPO is a landmark—but it won’t gloss over lingering operational issues

4/19/2019 - Quartzy: the no chill edition

4/19/2019 - The problem with how demographers evaluate the aging population

4/19/2019 - Scribd taking down the Mueller Report is the future the EU has voted for

4/19/2019 - Go ahead—get involved in your coworkers’ drama

4/19/2019 - These two African strongmen had a good week even as citizens force change in Sudan and Algeria

4/19/2019 - Our conference call starts in 15 minutes

4/19/2019 - Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity

4/19/2019 - Serena Williams’ “secret” venture capital portfolio includes one of Africa’s best-known startups

4/19/2019 - Most creative people are secretly worried they’ve already peaked

4/19/2019 - Should firms that finance the pot industry really be drug-testing employees?

4/19/2019 - There’s a new way to meditate at work

4/19/2019 - Adidas’s zero-waste sneaker is a simple idea that took years to execute

4/19/2019 - Into their 30s, men get way more money from their parents than women

4/19/2019 - China’s Grove startup could grow up to be the BYD of fuel-cell cars

4/19/2019 - Ukrainian elections, Northern Ireland riot, ancient Easter bunny

4/19/2019 - Your family may be keeping you from getting to the hospital in time

4/19/2019 - This week in membership: Hidden money, MacKenzie Bezos, and more

4/19/2019 - How Japan carpet bombed India with posters against Britain during World War II

4/19/2019 - Celebrating street art in south Delhi’s Lodhi Colony, India’s first public art district

4/19/2019 - Ukrainian elections, ISIS in Congo, ancient Easter bunny

4/18/2019 - The first transgender political candidate in India’s Tamil Nadu shows what’s in a name

4/18/2019 - Almost every social network has a porn problem—so why is India banning only TikTok?

4/18/2019 - We summarized every single section of the Mueller report so you don’t have to

4/18/2019 - Why the Mueller report has two spaces after every sentence

4/18/2019 - Zoom, video-conferencing company, soars in its market debut

4/18/2019 - What Mueller is handing to House Democrats

4/18/2019 - Ukrainian elections, Mueller report release, Notre Dame’s bees

4/18/2019 - Zoom’s IPO filing is full of “happiness”

4/18/2019 - Trump called the White House counsel a “lying bastard” after he refused to lie for him

4/18/2019 - Zoom’s impressive IPO boosted another company named Zoom

4/18/2019 - India’s richest man has endorsed a candidate—and it’s not Modi

4/18/2019 - All of the Trump campaign’s contacts with WikiLeaks

4/18/2019 - The Mueller report uses circular reasoning on obstruction of justice

4/18/2019 - Redaction

4/18/2019 - Zagat is perfectly positioned to fix the Yelp review model

4/18/2019 - Mueller’s 11 findings about Trump and obstruction of justice

4/18/2019 - Three ways William Barr misled the American public about the Mueller report

4/18/2019 - Facebook waited until the Mueller report dropped to tell us millions of Instagram passwords were exposed

4/18/2019 - The California exodus is speeding up

4/18/2019 - Five key takeaways from the Mueller report

4/18/2019 - The rise of “flying shame” points to a blind spot in conscious consumerism

4/18/2019 - Trump’s response to Mueller’s appointment: “I’m f***ed”

4/18/2019 - Blackstone is raising so much money its CEO can barely believe it

4/18/2019 - Netflix’s first children’s animation from Africa is an all-girl spy team written by women

4/18/2019 - People like to drink Starbucks coffee outside of Starbucks, and it’s paying off for Nestlé

4/18/2019 - Here’s a version of the Mueller report that you can actually search

4/18/2019 - Ghana’s budding health tech sector is finally getting deserved global recognition

4/18/2019 - Read the full Mueller report

4/18/2019 - Germany’s economy is looking pretty sickly

4/18/2019 - Attorney general William Barr sounds more like Trump’s personal attorney

4/18/2019 - Read William Barr’s full remarks on the Robert Mueller report

4/18/2019 - Two heads of state, two athletes and an education innovator: the Africans on the Time 100 list

4/18/2019 - Why you should sit out the IPO investing stampede

4/18/2019 - Watch live: William Barr’s press conference on the Mueller report

4/18/2019 - “Up or out” with no pause button: Why there’s a gender pay gap in law

4/18/2019 - The life-saving power of a simple checklist

4/18/2019 - Let’s solve the college debt crisis by treating students like startups

4/18/2019 - What your laptop-holding position says about you

4/18/2019 - Hodlonaut, Craig Wright, and Japanese regulation

4/18/2019 - Sudan looks to lessons from the Arab Spring to balance civilian demands and military rule

4/18/2019 - Where do you start when a team is broken?

4/18/2019 - Notre Dame’s history proves it’s no stranger to change

4/18/2019 - Mueller report revealed, Samsung folds, ancient horse blood

4/18/2019 - What the coded, sexist language used to describe Pinterest tells us about the company

4/18/2019 - An engineer-turned-Swiggy delivery executive is taking on a movie icon in Bengaluru this election

4/18/2019 - A leading scientist on aging says there is no magic pill for staying young—yet

4/18/2019 - A cartoon space cat demonstrates why Wall Street is skeptical of crypto exchanges

4/18/2019 - What you need to know from the best book about hiding money around the world

4/18/2019 - Congress has a problem with Modi using religion for polls, yet will raise Sabarimala in Kerala

4/18/2019 - How Modi unwittingly empowered India’s newest communist sensation

4/18/2019 - Reliance Jio has set a new global record for 4G availability

4/18/2019 - It’s only the second round of polls and 50,000 kilo drugs have been confiscated in India already

4/18/2019 - Aston Martin now has an electric car fit for James Bond

4/18/2019 - No political chat please: the rules of dining out in India’s Tamil Nadu

4/18/2019 - There is one US tech hub where the cost of living is below the national average

4/18/2019 - Mueller report release, North Korea weapon test, ancient horse blood

4/17/2019 - The man who ushered in China’s battery vehicle boom wants to do the same for fuel cells

4/17/2019 - A timeline of how things went downhill for TikTok in India

4/17/2019 - Bauhaus design has a legacy beyond its style

4/17/2019 - The US wants to scan the faces of all air passengers leaving the country

4/17/2019 - Mueller report release, Pinterest IPO, semi-alive pig brains

4/17/2019 - 2020 candidates’ 404 pages, ranked by cringe factor

4/17/2019 - Fyre Festival’s trustee hopes Netflix and Hulu can pay some of its debts

4/17/2019 - Adidas unveiled a shoe that can be ground up and made into a new sneaker

4/17/2019 - Cottage cheese

4/17/2019 - A futuristic simulation of a Chinese Mars mission has opened in the Gobi Desert

4/17/2019 - The first cell-cultured meat will cost about $50

4/17/2019 - Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is breaking before it’s even out

4/17/2019 - Ivanka Trump tries to be the “nice Trump” in a polite, but skeptical, Africa

4/17/2019 - Pig brain cells revived after death show that the brain may be more resilient than we thought

4/17/2019 - Coachella should probably just change its name to Beychella now

4/17/2019 - Pete Buttigieg is making Christianity progressive again

4/17/2019 - What to delete from social media before you start job hunting

4/17/2019 - Quartz Weekly: Tax havens, Coachella vibes, and esports

4/17/2019 - H&M is the latest international brand tapping into African design

4/17/2019 - Should Notre Dame’s beloved spire be rebuilt?

4/17/2019 - The new digital divide is between people who opt out of algorithms and people who don’t

4/17/2019 - A timeline of how things went from bad to worse for Jet Airways

4/17/2019 - India’s oldest private airline suspends operations as banks deny lifeline

4/17/2019 - Men have to make gender equality their business, says CEO of woman-first coworking company

4/17/2019 - A Chinese social media platform is making it hard to use a popular LGBTQ hashtag

4/17/2019 - Elizabeth Warren tells Colorado parents she’s fighting corruption and the Koch brothers

4/17/2019 - Eric Schmidt on what we can learn from the “trillion-dollar coach” of Google, Apple, eBay, and Twitter

4/17/2019 - Microsoft is taking its customers back from the likes of Walmart and GameStop

4/17/2019 - London’s house prices are falling at the fastest pace in a decade

4/17/2019 - The art of London’s climate change protests is an homage to the 1968 Paris riots

4/17/2019 - In Chennai, a medical-school entrance exam may decide who wins the election

4/17/2019 - Taiwan’s iPhone billionaire is running for president after a goddess appeared in his dreams

4/17/2019 - Israel’s new government, Indonesia’s election, plastic rain

4/17/2019 - Inside Wayanad, the “safe seat” where Rahul Gandhi has barely set foot

4/17/2019 - Does CBD actually work?

4/17/2019 - The impact of women’s careers on childbearing age, in one chart

4/17/2019 - What does MacKenzie Bezos want?

4/17/2019 - So you have two passports—do you know how to use them?

4/17/2019 - Modi’s BJP is back to being the top Facebook advertiser amid Indian elections

4/17/2019 - India’s online shoppers don’t look beyond their own borders–here’s why

4/17/2019 - What good is overseas enrolment for Indians if they can’t vote remotely?

4/17/2019 - Indians have already been following Jack Ma’s advice on working hours

4/17/2019 - Israel’s new government, Indonesia’s election, microplastic rain

4/16/2019 - TikTok app has disappeared from Google and Apple stores in India

4/16/2019 - History tells us that Notre Dame will bounce back from its destructive blaze

4/16/2019 - Netflix numbers, Singapore’s “Jewel,” floating mice

4/16/2019 - Watch how much NASA’s space-station mice love microgravity

4/16/2019 - Jack Dorsey admits Twitter’s “like” button should never have existed

4/16/2019 - The only real loser in the Apple-Qualcomm settlement is Intel

4/16/2019 - Notre Dame

4/16/2019 - Everything Uber doesn’t want you to notice in its IPO

4/16/2019 - Why Spanish translations of literary works are censored, often without readers’ knowledge

4/16/2019 - San Francisco’s scooters are white dude transport machines

4/16/2019 - Big Pharma’s latest target: Botox for 20-somethings

4/16/2019 - Another big democracy is voting amid a deepening divide around religion

4/16/2019 - Scientists say they just created the world’s first 3D-printed heart

4/16/2019 - Fortnite has made its way into the office

4/16/2019 - Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on why Silicon Valley needs coaches

4/16/2019 - Photos show what remains after the Notre Dame fire

4/16/2019 - Medicine to forget painful memories exists—but that doesn’t mean you should use it

4/16/2019 - How French firefighters used drones to tackle the Notre Dame blaze

4/16/2019 - Trump’s latest immigration plan targets African countries whose citizens overstay visas

4/16/2019 - A running list of donations to rebuild Notre Dame, from luxury corporations to oil companies

4/16/2019 - The founder of electric-vehicle startup Byton turned up at an auto show—representing a rival

4/16/2019 - One month later: Cyclone Idai’s devastation by the numbers

4/16/2019 - Powerful photos of women protesting are shaping popular uprisings in Africa

4/16/2019 - Companies are working towards diversity in leadership but inclusion is a long way off

4/16/2019 - Photos: The marvel of elections in Indonesia, nation of 17,000 islands

4/16/2019 - Bad cell phone reception is the latest issue plaguing Department of Homeland Security

4/16/2019 - TED offers Mark Zuckerberg a stage to explain himself once and for all

4/16/2019 - To get better at negotiating salary, start negotiating more at home

4/16/2019 - The new guidelines for touching at work

4/16/2019 - Andreessen Horowitz’s foundational focus and Wikileaks donations

4/16/2019 - The Bank of England lays bare the “very real” trillion-dollar risks of climate change

4/16/2019 - The arrival of driverless cars could help us reduce light pollution

4/16/2019 - Netflix earnings, tax politics, Portuguese pastries

4/16/2019 - The world’s happiest people have a beautifully simple way to tackle loneliness

4/16/2019 - Rubber ducks and tattoos: How China dodges censors to remember Tiananmen’s “Tank Man”

4/16/2019 - Microplastics are falling on the Pyrenees from as far away as Barcelona

4/16/2019 - Modi’s BJP looks to breach India’s last communist bastion through a temple

4/16/2019 - A US senator’s angry quest to crack down on dirty money

4/16/2019 - Polychain lost $400 million investing in crypto and still beat the market

4/16/2019 - India’s elections could seal the fate of its LGBT community—for better or for worse

4/16/2019 - Young Indians do care about politics, but nothing beats sex

4/16/2019 - Count Bollywood amongst the mourners of the Notre Dame cathedral fire

4/16/2019 - Netflix earnings, Deutsche Bank subpoena, Big Weed taxes

4/15/2019 - The very good reason why we grieve iconic buildings we’ve never seen

4/15/2019 - Notre Dame as we know it is gone

4/15/2019 - Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” to help preserve the cathedral

4/15/2019 - Leonardo da Vinci showed how art can advance scientific progress

4/15/2019 - Notre Dame fire, London climate protest, Big Weed taxes

4/15/2019 - The masterpieces endangered in the Notre Dame fire

4/15/2019 - Notre Dame cathedral in Paris inspired three of the world’s most influential writers

4/15/2019 - YouTube’s algorithm mistakenly showed information about 9/11 under the Notre Dame fire livestreams

4/15/2019 - The biggest band in the world just put out its most triumphant album

4/15/2019 - The heartbreaking moment Notre Dame’s spire fell

4/15/2019 - Nemeses

4/15/2019 - All the times Bran stares at people in the “Game of Thrones” season 8 premiere

4/15/2019 - Photos: Flames engulf Notre Dame in Paris

4/15/2019 - Here’s how much marijuana businesses pay in taxes

4/15/2019 - One of France’s most prominent far-right provocateurs is going to jail for denying the Holocaust

4/15/2019 - US soybeans may be the surprise casualty of swine fever in China

4/15/2019 - The life lessons I learned from watching the Boston Marathon every year

4/15/2019 - Breaking the law is the future of climate protests

4/15/2019 - Paris searches for answers as Notre Dame smolders

4/15/2019 - Watch cellist Yo-Yo Ma play for harmony at the US-Mexico border

4/15/2019 - Photos: The aftermath of deadly tornadoes across the southern US

4/15/2019 - Africa’s startup ecosystems are at a major turning point

4/15/2019 - Microsoft is overhauling how it investigates HR disputes

4/15/2019 - Singapore’s stunning expansion of Changi Airport is redefining what an airport is

4/15/2019 - Running addiction is real—and dangerous

4/15/2019 - A data theft case amid Indian elections sparks fears of voter manipulation

4/15/2019 - The urban farming ‘revolution’ has a fatal flaw

4/15/2019 - The life-altering moment that turned the father of Title IX into a champion for women

4/15/2019 - Linguists found the world’s “weirdest” languages—and English is one of them

4/15/2019 - Stop the misappropriation of “purpose”

4/15/2019 - How to stop meetings from turning into venting sessions

4/15/2019 - New data show Americans are turning to CBD as a cure-all for the modern condition

4/15/2019 - US tax day, Tiger Woods win, birth strike

4/15/2019 - Can you pay people to be more creative?

4/15/2019 - Why up to 65 million eligible Indian women may not vote this time

4/15/2019 - Eric Schmidt on Bill Campbell, Steve Jobs, and why every company needs a coach

4/15/2019 - Today in membership: Hiding money, and a video Q&A with Eric Schmidt

4/15/2019 - Welcome to the world’s biggest tax haven: The United States of America

4/15/2019 - Why my friends and I are sitting out this election

4/15/2019 - How realistic is Pakistan’s perspective on the Indian election?

4/15/2019 - Here’s why India’s electoral bonds make political funding even more opaque

4/15/2019 - Indians woke up at 5am to find ways to download Game of Thrones for free

4/15/2019 - London’s climate rebellion, Putin’s official wealth, birth strike

4/14/2019 - Who is the most popular Game of Thrones character in India?

4/14/2019 - The very last spring all things seemed possible in Beijing

4/14/2019 - US-Japan talks, Putin’s official wealth, birth strike

4/14/2019 - A new Twitter account is outing shoddy reporting in science stories

4/14/2019 - Watch: The first test flight of the world’s biggest plane

4/14/2019 - US immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes each year

4/14/2019 - Delta is reducing how much seats recline to protect your personal space

4/14/2019 - The world’s most dangerous bird killed a Florida man

4/14/2019 - OpenAI bots just trounced pro players of “Dota 2.” Now what?

4/14/2019 - The US is spending $37 million on two new tent cities for detained immigrant children and families

4/14/2019 - Goldman Sachs says Trump has a better-than-even shot at reelection

4/14/2019 - The Supreme Court is about to consider a FUCT-up trademark case

4/14/2019 - Old-school writing tools will boost your creativity, concentration—and speed

4/14/2019 - China’s courts fined a blog $30,000 for criticizing these buildings’ feng shui

4/14/2019 - Vladimir Putin’s official net worth is comically modest

4/14/2019 - How John Roberts could craft his legacy as US Supreme Court chief justice

4/14/2019 - India’s election holds clues for what’s next for nationalists around the world

4/14/2019 - Inside India’s ambitious effort to provide early care and education to 400 million kids

4/14/2019 - Pinterest’s frumpy Midwestern charm could make it an international juggernaut

4/14/2019 - Michelle Obama’s life is a lesson in how to find fulfillment

4/14/2019 - These millennials are going on “birth strike” because of climate change

4/14/2019 - Ghana’s French lessons, Jumia soars, bye to Sudan’s Bashir

4/14/2019 - How to ring-fence India from a global financial crisis: lessons from 2008

4/13/2019 - The problem with the tech IPO economy

4/13/2019 - Weekend edition—IPO cash-out, Trump opera, strawberry bots

4/13/2019 - Weekend edition—IPO cash-out, Trump opera, strawberry bots

4/13/2019 - Fisher-Price is recalling Rock ’n Play Sleeper linked to over 30 infant deaths

4/13/2019 - Huge seizures of pangolin scales suggest the endangered animal is in serious trouble

4/13/2019 - Mark Zuckerberg’s security costs have doubled to more than $20 million amid Facebook backlash

4/13/2019 - Charted: Machine learning says who’s most likely to die in “Game of Thrones,” season 8

4/13/2019 - China loves this obscure 1972 Yugoslavian movie—and Sarajevo is cashing in

4/13/2019 - Instagram will demote “inappropriate content”—and self-expression along the way

4/13/2019 - A traditional Korean garden hoe has become the “it” tool for spring

4/13/2019 - A white woman’s “clean” Chinese restaurant shows the flaws of “clean eating”

4/13/2019 - How Kenya gave Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks its first major global scoop

4/13/2019 - The US faces more ISIS-inspired terror as the White House dismantles DHS

4/13/2019 - No, you are not normal if you wait until the last minute to pay taxes

4/13/2019 - Cesaria, the unlikely heroine for the country that treasures her indomitable spirit

4/13/2019 - A mocktail that’s actually worth sipping

4/13/2019 - Indra Nooyi is making the impending care crisis her next big area of focus

4/13/2019 - Inside the lab using mind-changing psychology experiments to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict

4/13/2019 - The way we taste food changes as we age

4/13/2019 - Zen and the art of washing your car

4/13/2019 - Which is the most popular Game of Thrones episode in India?

4/12/2019 - One of South Africa’s most iconic music festivals has been cancelled thanks to crime

4/12/2019 - Weekend edition—IPO cash-out, Trump opera, strawberry bots

4/12/2019 - Letting the public name a newly discovered species could go horribly wrong

4/12/2019 - NASA’s twins study shows how the body changes in space

4/12/2019 - Photo booths

4/12/2019 - Plan the perfect weekend based on tariffs that Trump might impose on Europe

4/12/2019 - What should Wells Fargo’s next CEO look like?

4/12/2019 - What does the “rise of Skywalker” mean in Star Wars Episode IX?

4/12/2019 - Ketamine may rebuild broken brain synapses, according to new research

4/12/2019 - Watch the thrilling first trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

4/12/2019 - Venture capital funds are starting to make bigger bets on African startups

4/12/2019 - Jumia’s stock is soaring on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange

4/12/2019 - Can the “immortal” jellyfish help scientists cure brain disease?

4/12/2019 - Everything you need to know about the $100 billion Uber IPO

4/12/2019 - How to create a Twitter feed that will make you a better employee

4/12/2019 - Uber’s IPO is a lesson in the true cost of toxic culture

4/12/2019 - Quartzy: the wax on wax off edition

4/12/2019 - Our conference call starts in 15 minutes

4/12/2019 - Feel more tranquil at work with a daily ritual straight out of summer camp

4/12/2019 - The end of “Game of Thrones” could promote political engagement—or apathy

4/12/2019 - Virgil Abloh’s real value to Louis Vuitton isn’t about the clothes he can sell

4/12/2019 - Google’s AI is growing up

4/12/2019 - JPMorgan’s record profit signals the US economy is just fine, thank you very much

4/12/2019 - An alarming kids’ health report shows cities must act now on traffic pollution

4/12/2019 - Everything you need to know about Africa’s largest e-commerce operator’s billion-dollar IPO

4/12/2019 - GoT returns, China’s trade surplus soars, literal pyramid scheme

4/12/2019 - The open access research model is hurting academics in poorer countries

4/12/2019 - In rich countries, the middle class is getting smaller and smaller, generation by generation

4/12/2019 - 4 million kids get asthma from breathing traffic fumes every year

4/12/2019 - Uber is bucking the biggest trend in startup IPOs this decade

4/12/2019 - Audi won’t say why the e-tron has a big battery but low range

4/12/2019 - Today in membership: IPO conference call, and a roundup of the week

4/12/2019 - The risk factors Uber talks about that other companies don’t

4/12/2019 - Joblessness is worsening India’s social and gender inequalities

4/12/2019 - From GoT street orchestras to Tyrion Lannister merch, winter is coming to India

4/12/2019 - The silver screen is the new election battleground in India

4/12/2019 - Instagram tried to encourage Indians to vote, but the government failed them

4/12/2019 - Even TikTok is warning Indians against election-related fake news

4/12/2019 - GoT returns, Uber IPO, “Old Town Road”

4/12/2019 - Move over “Friends,” India’s Tinder generation is all about “Game of Thrones”

4/11/2019 - Uber’s IPO, moon crash landing, “Old Town Road”

4/11/2019 - Uber’s biggest investors include SoftBank, Google, and the Saudi Arabian government

4/11/2019 - Lyft unrolled a thoughtful workplace mental health strategy—but excluded its drivers

4/11/2019 - Famously unprofitable Amazon has nothing on Uber

4/11/2019 - Everyone Uber thinks is its competitor

4/11/2019 - The first private moon robot probe ended in a crash

4/11/2019 - The typical Uber rider

4/11/2019 - Migraine affects a billion people, but we still don’t know exactly why

4/11/2019 - A former NSA attorney explains the US case against Julian Assange

4/11/2019 - The World Press Photo of the Year is an unflinching look at trauma at the US-Mexico border

4/11/2019 - The BJP’s threat to restrict Indian citizenship unmasks the ugliest side of nationalism

4/11/2019 - Drones at work

4/11/2019 - Tesla battery partner Panasonic won’t invest in a Gigafactory expansion after all

4/11/2019 - Our Game of Thrones chatbot recaps all the plotlines before the final season

4/11/2019 - Inside Google Cloud Next, the conference for the search giant’s next big business

4/11/2019 - Macy’s is trying to make the staid department store an Instagrammable “experience”

4/11/2019 - “Old Town Road” is only the third country song in 30 years to make it to make it to number one

4/11/2019 - Michael Avenatti faces 335 years in prison and then some

4/11/2019 - This is how you correctly leave a port-a-potty

4/11/2019 - Economists conclude that people are willing to put up with pay cuts, after all

4/11/2019 - Netflix thinks we won’t notice if it just remakes “A Quiet Place” with different actors and a new title

4/11/2019 - Want to eat beef and fight climate change? Eat a cow stomach

4/11/2019 - A Microsoft exec shows how to handle an uproar at work without shutting it down

4/11/2019 - Jeff Bezos says third-party sellers on Amazon are “kicking our butt”

4/11/2019 - Jeff Bezos upended the smart-home industry by not listening to customers

4/11/2019 - After 40 years of capitalism, China’s income is divided almost as unequally as America’s

4/11/2019 - The US charges against Julian Assange

4/11/2019 - A House hate-crimes hearing shows the end of decency in US politics

4/11/2019 - It’s time to stop fixating on Fox News’ mythical political power

4/11/2019 - The Swiss government is mistaken—coffee is essential for survival

4/11/2019 - Can JetBlue find the transatlantic sweet spot where others have failed?

4/11/2019 - China’s growing electric-vehicle market is no longer relying on government purchases

4/11/2019 - Trillion-dollar investor says hitting climate goals will cost less “than we had feared”

4/11/2019 - New story from Should This Exist? – Cameras are everywhere. Do they make us any safer?

4/11/2019 - Cameras are everywhere. Do they make us any safer?

4/11/2019 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested after nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy

4/11/2019 - The story behind the Dries Van Noten prints celebrities from Beyoncé to Diplo are wearing

4/11/2019 - China weighs a ban on mining and the revised Token Taxonomy Act

4/11/2019 - T-Mobile’s CEO steps in to save a DC cultural landmark to go-go music

4/11/2019 - India celebrates democracy like all its other festivals—by banning alcohol

4/11/2019 - Narendra Modi’s Facebook page has a big engagement problem

4/11/2019 - The sugar crash might be real—but not the sugar rush

4/11/2019 - Sudan coup watch, Uber IPO, Roomba thief

4/11/2019 - A selfie booth and even a cash prize are waiting for some lucky Indian voters

4/11/2019 - Black students’ suicides on a South African campus show the toll of ignoring diversity

4/11/2019 - The tech IPO economy has few winners and lots of losers

4/11/2019 - China wants to ban bitcoin mining to save the environment

4/11/2019 - South Korean women will be able to get abortions legally for the first time since 1953

4/11/2019 - Sudan’s diaspora has played a crucial role in supporting the anti-Bashir protests

4/11/2019 - A prince versus pauper poll battle is underway in this southern Indian constituency

4/11/2019 - Sudan’s longtime ruler has been arrested and forced out of office

4/11/2019 - Sudan coup watch, biggest elections ever, Roomba thief

4/11/2019 - Amidst the mother of all elections, Indians care only about cricket and cheap phones

4/10/2019 - History’s biggest election has no place for women

4/10/2019 - Why India’s poll panel wanted to revert to paper ballots in this one constituency

4/10/2019 - China is censoring these songs 30 years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown

4/10/2019 - The 100-year-old massacre the British now “deeply regret” but won’t apologise for

4/10/2019 - Google celebrates the beginning of India’s parliamentary election 2019 with a doodle

4/10/2019 - In photos: Electronic voting machines reach India’s remote areas through bamboo footbridges and on boats

4/10/2019 - Jumia’s anticipated billion-dollar IPO has been delayed

4/10/2019 - India elections begin, black hole image, Maslow pyramid scheme

4/10/2019 - How space missions have captured the far side of the moon, from the USSR to Israel

4/10/2019 - DHS is throwing a big farewell party for Kirstjen Nielsen today

4/10/2019 - MMT

4/10/2019 - YouTube TV is no longer a good deal

4/10/2019 - The Congolese ruling family allegedly laundered millions through a Trump condo in NY

4/10/2019 - Zoom may be the true unicorn—a profitable tech startup

4/10/2019 - Here’s how Jumia’s IPO will go—according to investors who’ve backed global e-commerce giants

4/10/2019 - Walmart will offer reusable plastic bags at cash registers. That’s nice I guess

4/10/2019 - How do you plan a party for 900 million people? With a very big, colorful to-do list

4/10/2019 - Every plotline in Game of Thrones, ranked and explained

4/10/2019 - Facebook is using AI to map exactly where Africa’s fast-growing population lives

4/10/2019 - Oprah and Prince Harry are making a mental health docuseries for Apple

4/10/2019 - Glaciers worldwide are disappearing even faster than we realized

4/10/2019 - Boeing’s cold-blooded risk calculation may tarnish trust in “self-driving” cars for years

4/10/2019 - Quartz Weekly: Microsoft allegations, solitary ramen, and a Brexit breakfast

4/10/2019 - A strategic port in the Horn of Africa is at the center of a $500 million lawsuit

4/10/2019 - Magic Johnson quit the Lakers because he hated being a boss

4/10/2019 - “Maslow’s pyramid” is based on an elitist misreading of the psychologist’s work

4/10/2019 - Astronomers have finally captured an image of a black hole

4/10/2019 - The global economy has entered a synchronized slowdown

4/10/2019 - Mandatory paternity leave might be Wall Street’s best bet for gender equality

4/10/2019 - The military strongman leading the offense against Libya’s UN-backed government

4/10/2019 - The harshest things Wall Street analysts are saying about Tesla

4/10/2019 - All 671 Americans currently running for president

4/10/2019 - Music streaming has a far worse carbon footprint than the heyday of records and CDs

4/10/2019 - The thing that turns a liberal arts education into a meaningful job

4/10/2019 - Why your tax refund is smaller and what to do about it

4/10/2019 - How to become a more curious person

4/10/2019 - Trump’s EPA update, Netanyahu celebrates, avoiding “flygskam”

4/10/2019 - 900 million voters and over a million polling booths: History’s biggest election is on

4/10/2019 - Shell will spend $300 million to offset carbon emissions. Here’s the catch

4/10/2019 - How to use Yelp and other user-generated review sites

4/10/2019 - Everything you need to know about India’s parliamentary election

4/10/2019 - Five extremely practical things to never remove from your suitcase

4/10/2019 - Here’s why it is going to be a blockbuster year for Indian advertising

4/10/2019 - A fantasy sports startup has entered the unicorn club thanks to India’s IPL fever

4/10/2019 - In five years, Narendra Modi has travelled abroad as much as Manmohan Singh did in 10 years

4/10/2019 - Not as many Indians are buying smartphones on Amazon and Flipkart as you think

4/10/2019 - EU summit, Airbnb’s West Bank U-turn, janties

4/9/2019 - Indian summer set to break the bank, and not just temperature records

4/9/2019 - FEMA leaked 2.3M disaster survivors’ data to this previously unidentified company

4/9/2019 - SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch might mean moon missions for Elon Musk

4/9/2019 - Israel’s election, North African protests, janties

4/9/2019 - Why two MLB managers hugged it out in Boston today

4/9/2019 - US taxpayers are paying TurboTax to keep taxes complicated

4/9/2019 - Five of the six novels on the Man Booker International Prize shortlist are written by women

4/9/2019 - Wasabi

4/9/2019 - As US communities resist ICE, private prison companies are cashing in

4/9/2019 - This ancient ice core could reveal 1.5 million years of climate history

4/9/2019 - The IMF has cut its global growth forecast for the fourth time in nine months

4/9/2019 - Ancient Greek shipwrecks are now open for scuba diving

4/9/2019 - China’s largest newspaper is helping the government censor the internet, and investors are thrilled

4/9/2019 - Jack Dorsey’s health routine has Twitter worried

4/9/2019 - Facebook is hiring someone to tell politicians it’s not a monopoly

4/9/2019 - “The Myth of the Nice Girl” by Fran Hauser

4/9/2019 - “Janties” and the other fashion trends you’ll see this festival season

4/9/2019 - Before we knew better: Silence of the Lambs is a win for women—but fails LGBTQ culture

4/9/2019 - Sexism is making the global tuberculosis epidemic worse

4/9/2019 - Confused by that “5GE” banner that’s popped up on your phone? You’re not alone

4/9/2019 - The case for crying at work

4/9/2019 - The next year will test if Abiy Ahmed will be Ethiopia’s best hope for stability

4/9/2019 - Crypto and terrorism

4/9/2019 - How GitHub became a bulletin board for Chinese tech worker complaints

4/9/2019 - Mastercard wants to help you land a job at the CIA

4/9/2019 - Pharma faces Congress, cheese tariff threat, trendy pastors

4/9/2019 - Watch: Carlos Ghosn on the “backstabbing” and “conspiracy” that put him in jail in Japan

4/9/2019 - Are we building the next dot-com bubble?

4/9/2019 - Not even terrorists want to use cryptocurrencies anymore

4/9/2019 - Johannesburg’s hipster gentrification project is at risk of crumbling

4/9/2019 - Only magic can help the Modi government contain India’s fiscal deficit

4/9/2019 - OYO’s growing faster overseas than it is in India—but it needs to watch out

4/9/2019 - Pro-Modi Twitter bots manipulated a hashtag at a record-breaking rate

4/9/2019 - Israel’s election, cheese tariff threat, tacky chopstick ad

4/9/2019 - Modi’s #MainBhiChowkidar versus Gandhi’s #ChowkidarChorHai—who won?

4/9/2019 - When it comes to Africa’s growing debt, size doesn’t matter. Yet

4/9/2019 - What Modi’s most popular tweets say about his election campaign

4/8/2019 - Hong Kong’s “Umbrella 9” have been convicted for fighting for democracy

4/8/2019 - Israeli election, Korean Air chairman RIP, undefeatable robocalls

4/8/2019 - Why data analytics is the future of smarter more people-friendly urban planning

4/8/2019 - Trump’s anti-immigration zealot Stephen Miller is behind the purge at Homeland Security

4/8/2019 - There’s an organization devoted to fighting for robot rights

4/8/2019 - A $170 million funding round is the latest big-ticket fintech deal in Africa

4/8/2019 - Beyoncé’s documentary trailer presents her as the best the human race has to offer

4/8/2019 - A planet fragment orbiting a dying star offers a glimpse at Earth’s grim future

4/8/2019 - Dolphins’ complex clitorises are the key to understanding their sex lives

4/8/2019 - Capacitors

4/8/2019 - A common food additive might help the flu attack the body

4/8/2019 - How Kurt Cobain inspired a 10-year-old in South Africa to become a journalist

4/8/2019 - Netflix’s “Our Planet” has made the walrus the new heartbreaking image of climate change

4/8/2019 - The many ways Trump has made the situation at the US-Mexico border worse

4/8/2019 - From apologies to denials, a guide to the complex world of post-Me Too comebacks

4/8/2019 - This Kenyan company won a major fashion award for making fabric from nettles

4/8/2019 - Napping is good for you, experts say—if you do it the right way

4/8/2019 - US-Iran tensions, Kirstjen Nielsen resigns, landlocked surfing

4/8/2019 - Guess which Indian IT major faced the most H-1B rejections

4/8/2019 - Kitchen sink, cauliflower, and pillows: How political parties in India get their symbols

4/8/2019 - The mad rush for H-1B visa seems to be dying down

4/8/2019 - Sudan’s anti-government protests face a total power outage and social media shutdown

4/8/2019 - An experimental soccer league in post-ISIS Iraq put a major theory on prejudice to the test

4/8/2019 - How we get to the next big battery breakthrough

4/8/2019 - Today in membership: IPOs season starts, more on batteries, and Hollywood’s risky business

4/8/2019 - Blockbuster tech IPOs to watch in 2019

4/8/2019 - Why bad data make bad movies

4/8/2019 - Hong Kong awaits the verdict on the Umbrella Movement

4/8/2019 - A Chinese tech giant’s message about layoffs shows it won’t be easy to fight crazy working hours

4/8/2019 - The silent, irredeemable injustice of the assault on an Indian Muslim family

4/8/2019 - Why I discuss the Indian election with my nine-year-old daughter

4/8/2019 - Battle for Tripoli, Maldives election, landlocked surfing

4/8/2019 - Why India will be the trailblazer of co-living in the Asia-Pacific

4/7/2019 - Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned from the US Department of Homeland Security

4/7/2019 - Nissan meeting, China’s gold, iPhone scam

4/7/2019 - Can China convince Africa to like it?

4/7/2019 - Snake hunters capture the biggest python ever found in the Florida Everglades

4/7/2019 - MDMA helps adult mice socialize like their adolescent selves

4/7/2019 - The future of electric cars is happening now in China

4/7/2019 - A California hospital secretly recorded hundreds of gynecological procedures

4/7/2019 - China is forcing the world to rethink recycling

4/7/2019 - Little remains of a rhino poacher killed by elephants and eaten by lions

4/7/2019 - Historians are starting to explore the dark side of science

4/7/2019 - A famed general of America’s Revolutionary war may have been biologically female or intersex

4/7/2019 - Two college kids allegedly used counterfeit iPhones to scam Apple out of nearly $900,000

4/7/2019 - Tuesday’s election in Israel could decide the future of Middle East peace

4/7/2019 - “Trump is on our side”: A Russia-based asbestos maker sees an ally in the White House

4/7/2019 - A cult Japanese ramen shop is making New York’s Times Square a place for silent contemplation

4/7/2019 - Are Democrats changing too quickly—or just catching up with Republicans?

4/7/2019 - Here’s what’s wrong with letting wealthy people solve the world’s problems

4/7/2019 - Cape Verde’s Sao Vicente Carnival is reinvigorating its tourism

4/7/2019 - Ghana’s president wants to make French a formal language, but it’s not a popular plan

4/7/2019 - Three easy, delicious sheet pan dinners

4/7/2019 - The key to loving your job in the age of burnout

4/7/2019 - Africa’s free trade, VW’s Rwandan app, South Africa’s apartheid ghosts

4/6/2019 - Weekend edition—Plastic vs. cotton, 737 Max training, kid question

4/6/2019 - Weekend edition—Plastic vs. cotton, 737 Max training, kid question

4/6/2019 - Octopus farming will soon be the norm. Marine scientists say this isn’t a good thing

4/6/2019 - A couple applied for new UK passports on the same day—only one says “European Union”

4/6/2019 - An untranslatable Finnish word captures a vulnerability and perseverance we all share

4/6/2019 - Finally, philosophers have spoken out on how to solve Brexit

4/6/2019 - Facebook’s algorithm makes some ads discriminatory—all on its own

4/6/2019 - How to get better at being

4/6/2019 - Should a pregnant person ever go to prison?

4/6/2019 - A new Cantonese opera in Hong Kong uncannily links Donald Trump with Chairman Mao

4/6/2019 - After two deadly crashes, Boeing cuts 737 Max production

4/6/2019 - The upside of Brexit anxiety

4/6/2019 - Watch: Sorting out the winners from the losers in the race to dominate battery technology

4/5/2019 - Weekend edition—Plastic vs. cotton, 737 Max training, kid question

4/5/2019 - Prehistoric whales were dog-sized creatures with four legs and hooves

4/5/2019 - Robert Mueller will be leaving the Department of Justice in “coming days”

4/5/2019 - Friday cocktail: Toast spring with beets, sweet or savory

4/5/2019 - “Let It Go”

4/5/2019 - Natural gas is now so cheap that would-be buyers are being paid to take it away

4/5/2019 - Biden’s jokes about having permission to touch people show he doesn’t “get it”

4/5/2019 - Europe may ban vegan food companies from using the terms “burger” and “milk”

4/5/2019 - H&M is testing a new, Instagram-influencer-style shopping platform

4/5/2019 - Forget effortless entertaining. Embrace the ambitious dinner party

4/5/2019 - The largest music streaming service in Africa raised $20 million to fight off global rivals

4/5/2019 - Quartzy: the spring feast edition

4/5/2019 - Scientists made better-tasting basil through “cyber farming”

4/5/2019 - Our membership conference call starts in 15 minutes

4/5/2019 - Is South Africa’s old apartheid flag a form of hate speech?

4/5/2019 - How two bloggers exposed a property Ponzi scheme linked to Mauritania’s president

4/5/2019 - Before we knew better: Flashdance is what happens when men try to write a strong female character

4/5/2019 - The question we should ask kids instead of “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

4/5/2019 - The era of Big Weed is upon us

4/5/2019 - Pivotal jobs report, delayed US-China summit, soiled hash

4/5/2019 - Students in the UK and Germany learn about the EU in entirely different ways

4/5/2019 - Today in membership: Batteries run the world

4/5/2019 - How to cut through battery-industry hype

4/5/2019 - Answers to burning questions on battery science and business

4/5/2019 - Here’s how you can watch Game of Thrones’ new season in India—real time and uncensored

4/5/2019 - Why does Narendra Modi have an enduring Muslim problem?

4/5/2019 - Why many airline seats are empty despite India’s booming air travel

4/5/2019 - Facebook is the hotbed of political ads in India by a long shot

4/5/2019 - Rwanda genocide anniversary, Christchurch shooter charges, soiled hash

4/4/2019 - India’s central bank may not have room for further rate cuts anytime soon

4/4/2019 - What is Facebook going to do about Modi’s secret fake-news factory?

4/4/2019 - US-China summit delay, Microsoft misconduct, soiled hash

4/4/2019 - Traffic at border checkpoints is piling up as the Trump administration reassigns officers

4/4/2019 - This company made space internet safe for Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

4/4/2019 - Mayor Pete is the Mister Rogers of presidential candidates

4/4/2019 - Compare the divorce statements of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos

4/4/2019 - Jamie Dimon or Warren Buffett: Who writes the longer shareholder letters?

4/4/2019 - It’s really easy to message anyone from a locked iPhone—even if it’s not your own

4/4/2019 - False eyelashes

4/4/2019 - Beyoncé is entering a sneaker market increasingly driven by pop stars

4/4/2019 - A new study suggests cats can recognize their names when you call

4/4/2019 - Male refugees commonly experience sexual violence on the route to Europe

4/4/2019 - By one measure, the US job market is the strongest it’s been since 1969

4/4/2019 - The Trump administration is streamlining visas for Mexican farm workers

4/4/2019 - Amid employee uproar, Microsoft is investigating sexual harassment claims overlooked by HR

4/4/2019 - Amazon is making a late entry into the internet satellite race

4/4/2019 - Africa is set to be the global center of Christianity for the next 50 years

4/4/2019 - The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale

4/4/2019 - What the car industry’s AI problem tells us about the future of work

4/4/2019 - In an alternate universe without Brexit, the UK economy is 3% larger

4/4/2019 - Why the party’s whole atmosphere changes when a woman deejays

4/4/2019 - How to tell when procrastinating is actually anxiety

4/4/2019 - Bitcoin arbitrage and SEC guidance

4/4/2019 - Trump talks trade, 737 Max review, branded fleeces

4/4/2019 - Nike’s Air Jordan was a key turning point in menswear

4/4/2019 - Ethiopia says pilots repeatedly followed Boeing’s instructions before crash

4/4/2019 - All the elements of the periodic table that can be used to make batteries

4/4/2019 - Four charts for NATO’s 70th anniversary

4/4/2019 - What bitcoin’s 20% price surge says about the state of cryptocurrency

4/4/2019 - Inside CATL’s massive battery factory and the city that supports it

4/4/2019 - Google Doodle is honoring Hugh Masekela, the father of South African jazz

4/4/2019 - Why GST hasn’t helped fulfil Modi’s promise on black money

4/4/2019 - Volkswagen is testing the future of its global ride-hailing business in Rwanda

4/4/2019 - Most Kashmiris feel they’re a “campaign prop”, but still vote

4/4/2019 - Data leaks could wreak havoc in India, so why aren’t they an issue this election?

4/4/2019 - Does the US need NATO?

4/4/2019 - Can something good come out of India’s worsening e-waste problem? Apparently yes.

4/4/2019 - The water shortage lessons all cities need to learn from Cape Town’s “Day Zero” threat

4/4/2019 - What happened when one US pilot asked for more training before flying the 737 Max

4/4/2019 - Why is Apple looking to assemble the older iPhone 7 in India?

4/4/2019 - Mumbai residents have the fastest-growing salaries in India but still can’t afford a house

4/4/2019 - 737 Max report, Ghosn re-arrested, porn crowdfunding

4/3/2019 - busy space day, post-vaping seizures, porn crowdfunding

4/3/2019 - The problem with Joe Biden’s hands

4/3/2019 - Why Mar-a-Lago is vulnerable to foreign espionage, according to ex-spies

4/3/2019 - WeWork’s purchase of Managed by Q shows how two big office trends are merging

4/3/2019 - Undersea cables

4/3/2019 - A linguist’s trick to perfectly understanding people with different accents

4/3/2019 - “FemTech” is not and should not be a thing

4/3/2019 - Measles infections in the US have already surpassed 2017 numbers

4/3/2019 - How to avoid flawed minerals-for-infrastructure deals like DR Congo and China’s Sicomines pact

4/3/2019 - Apple’s new ad highlights everything wrong with the company right now

4/3/2019 - Patagonia suggests finance bros aren’t a fit for its fleece vests

4/3/2019 - The ethics of hiring household help

4/3/2019 - In “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” season 2, even magic can’t fix toxic masculinity

4/3/2019 - AI experts are calling on Amazon to stop selling facial recognition to law enforcement

4/3/2019 - South Africa’s cricket fans will be betting on Brexit to save their national team

4/3/2019 - The miserable history of seasonal allergies, from ancient China and Greece to today

4/3/2019 - Africa’s historic free trade deal now has enough countries signed up to go into force

4/3/2019 - This simple test assesses if men are being good gender allies

4/3/2019 - Streaming has helped the music industry recover—to half its peak size

4/3/2019 - How children’s books have written mothers out of the story

4/3/2019 - Quartz Weekly: Plastic bags, chopped salads, and the world in 2050

4/3/2019 - “Color-blindness” is a bad approach to solving bias in algorithms

4/3/2019 - Why Congress has a right to the full Mueller report

4/3/2019 - China’s VP in DC, Brexit overture, risky avian tweeting

4/3/2019 - How British Muslims take their tea tells us a lot about shifting cultural identity

4/3/2019 - The world’s fashion buyers are sending a strong message to designers about sustainability

4/3/2019 - A philosopher ranks the three best types of companionship

4/3/2019 - Following steps recommended by Boeing didn’t save the Ethiopian flight

4/3/2019 - The inside story of how CATL became the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery company

4/3/2019 - Why Indian startups are celebrating the resignation of Google’s India chief

4/3/2019 - Carlos Ghosn joined Twitter, and is ready to talk

4/3/2019 - The ancient connections between atheism, Buddhism and Hinduism

4/3/2019 - It’s time to put our hands up for India’s female entrepreneurs

4/3/2019 - 1MDB trial, Brexit overture, risky avian tweeting

4/3/2019 - Malaysia has sold the luxury yacht at the center of the 1MDB corruption scandal

4/3/2019 - Who’s afraid of the “welfare agenda”?

4/3/2019 - Air pollution is a bigger killer than tobacco use in India

4/2/2019 - In the age of fake news, most urban Indians still trust WhatsApp

4/2/2019 - An American in Japan is using manga to teach people how to work with foreigners

4/2/2019 - Too rich, too comfortable: Why Japan is so resistant to change even as disaster looms

4/2/2019 - Brunei’s brutal law, online sales tops, flamingos love sewage

4/2/2019 - How to interpret the dinosaur study tearing the paleontology world apart

4/2/2019 - Does Apple even care about computers anymore?

4/2/2019 - Romance novels

4/2/2019 - One out of five young adult deaths in the US were gun-related in 2017

4/2/2019 - Nigeria’s small businesses want government help, but corruption is draining it away

4/2/2019 - The salary question Salesforce asks applicants to help stop pay gaps in their tracks

4/2/2019 - Four in 10 Americans believe the gender pay gap is made up to serve a political purpose

4/2/2019 - A ferocious tank battle taught H.R. McMaster how to prepare for the unexpected

4/2/2019 - South Africa’s election season rhetoric has sparked fresh xenophobic attacks on African migrants

4/2/2019 - Ticket sales for “Avengers: Endgame” seem to be breaking movie theater websites

4/2/2019 - George Clooney has helped revive an LGBTQ boycott of Brunei-owned luxury hotels

4/2/2019 - A Zen master and chef reveals the most important point of living

4/2/2019 - Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to “Nanette” is an act of considered self-care

4/2/2019 - The billion-dollar IPO of Africa’s biggest e-commerce player is happening this month

4/2/2019 - John Maeda says there are three kinds of design—but one is most important

4/2/2019 - Traveling alone as a woman isn’t necessarily more dangerous, but it is more stressful

4/2/2019 - Want to know how well China’s autonomous cars are driving? Ask California

4/2/2019 - How to overcome perfectionism in a judgmental world

4/2/2019 - Brexit is a failure of Britain’s entire political class

4/2/2019 - Technology helps us learn new languages while forcing us to speak English

4/2/2019 - The chief digital officer role is already heading toward extinction

4/2/2019 - Taxes and governance

4/2/2019 - Climate change activists are a worry for Saudi Arabia’s national oil company

4/2/2019 - Trump talks NATO, Boeing delays an update, vegan Whopper

4/2/2019 - For bitcoin’s losers, there’s a silver lining: lower taxes

4/2/2019 - An MIT professor’s quest to solve the world’s battery needs

4/2/2019 - How Dawood Ibrahim, India’s most wanted gangster, found his mentor

4/2/2019 - How Gandhi ended up with the gods on a Sri Lankan temple’s entrance

4/2/2019 - Flight tickets will cost higher this summer as Jet Airways continues to struggle

4/2/2019 - The battle over the future of Boeing’s 737 Max is heading to US courts

4/2/2019 - NASA says India’s anti-satellite strike endangered the International Space Station

4/2/2019 - Most of the pages Facebook purged recently were pro-Congress—but the BJP took a much bigger hit

4/2/2019 - Boeing’s software fix for the 737 Max is taking longer than expected

4/2/2019 - May’s cabinet showdown, Boeing delay, vegan Whopper

4/1/2019 - Rapper Nipsey Hussle is being remembered for his community work as much as his music

4/1/2019 - Britain’s MPs still have no idea what kind of Brexit they want, though it likely won’t involve revoking Article 50

4/1/2019 - Aramco’s vast profits, Lyft IPO hangover, Trump’s avocado shortage

4/1/2019 - The reaction to Jim Carrey’s Mussolini tweet stands as a warning for anti-fascists

4/1/2019 - Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag

4/1/2019 - This is what it will cost to buy a share in Jumia for its $1.3 billion valuation

4/1/2019 - Vocal bursts

4/1/2019 - What a rookie manager learned when he tweeted about MAGA

4/1/2019 - John Oliver explains the WWE’s glaring workers’ rights problem

4/1/2019 - Algeria’s president will finally step down this month after 20 years in power

4/1/2019 - Trump approved “dozens” of rejected White House security clearances, whistleblower says

4/1/2019 - British factories are stockpiling like crazy ahead of Brexit

4/1/2019 - Googlers are petitioning against the Heritage Foundation head overseeing its ethics

4/1/2019 - The UK’s national minimum wage is 20 years old, and employment has never been higher

4/1/2019 - Airbnb’s OYO investment could be its ticket to the East

4/1/2019 - Burger King thinks a vegan burger has a shot at popularity on its menu

4/1/2019 - “Well, this is great fun”: Currency traders on the risks—and opportunities—of Brexit

4/1/2019 - China’s fashion shoppers are ignoring stereotypical gender boundaries

4/1/2019 - The danger of Ethiopian Airlines flip-flopping on its post-Boeing crash messaging

4/1/2019 - Workplace automation will hit women harder than men

4/1/2019 - How to have conversations that make employees stay

4/1/2019 - Meet the new Quartz Pros: Roy Bahat, Beth Ferreira, Zoltan Istvan, Tom McGough, Bonnie St. John, Baratunde Thurston

4/1/2019 - Brexit alternatives, Trump trims US aid, cauliflower controversy

4/1/2019 - Today in membership: Batteries will power the future

4/1/2019 - Ola’s April Fool’s prank isn’t making people laugh–quite the opposite actually

4/1/2019 - Can Uber be the Uber of trucking?

4/1/2019 - The complete guide to the battery revolution

4/1/2019 - India’s much-hated e-commerce policy is doing what companies could not in years

4/1/2019 - Mission Shakti: Can we leave space out of earthly conflicts, please?

4/1/2019 - Why restructuring South Africa’s power utility won’t end the blackouts

4/1/2019 - Influencer marketing is already losing influence in India due to fakery

4/1/2019 - Brexit alternatives, Japan’s new era, cauliflower controversy

4/1/2019 - The renter generation might just become the landlord generation

4/1/2019 - A millennial’s guide to buying and managing a rental property