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In what some knowledgeable observers characterized as the death knell for a nearly 102-year-old American institution, Facebook millionaire Chris Hughes announced on Monday that he’s putting The New Republic up for sale. The 32-year-old Hughes—who was a Harvard roommate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a relationship that helped him amass a fortune estimated at $700…
WARNING: STAR WARS SPOILERS AHEAD! It’s the late 1970s. My parents are visiting with friends, and I’ve been relegated to the upstairs room with the other kids even though I’d prefer to be sitting downstairs with the adults. There’s a television upstairs, and a VCR, and a movie playing on the screen. It shows a…
Meeting up at a coffee shop is a cornerstone of modern American life. Business meetings, book clubs, and first dates all pair well with a coffee. But some fast-growing Taiwanese chains and American entrepreneurs are hoping you’ll switch allegiances to a younger rival: bubble tea. Invented in Taiwan in the 1980s, the hugely popular drink…
Photo Condominiums at the Time Warner Center were found to have a number of hidden owners over a decade who had been the subjects of government investigations. Credit Edward Caruso for The New York Times Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and…
Photo Migrants in Padborg, Denmark, walking to police vans last week after officers checked the identity papers of people on a train arriving from Germany. Credit Sean Gallup/Getty Images LONDON — Denmark, which once prided itself on its openness to foreigners, has sent another message to migrants in recent months: Think twice before coming. It…
PressForward 3.8 Written by Amanda Regan, January 13th, 2016 Last week the PressForward team released PressForward 3.8. Our latest release includes numerous bug fixes and enhances the functionality of the Nominate This bookmarklet, user permissions, and OPML functionality. Notably, the functionality of the Send to Draft button, located in All Content, has been restored. Also included in our…
Pop artist Sam Smith just won a Golden Globe for James Bond theme song “The Writing’s On The Wall.” As we discovered late last year, however, he wasn’t the only candidate considered to pen the tune. Radiohead surprised us all by releasing their own version, titled “Spectre,” igniting hopes and dreams that a new album is…
A recent report finds that 60 percent of women working in the tech industry in Silicon Valley have experienced sexual harassment. A staggering 90 percent of the women interviewed in the study, which was titled Elephant in the Valley, reportedly “witnessed sexist behavior at company offsites and/or industry conferences.” In other cases, the sexism women…
Predictions about financial markets are, almost without exception, notoriously wrong and worthless. With that caveat: we have our first respectable major DOOM prediction of 2016! Are there good reasons to be panicky about global financial markets right now? Absolutely! Oil prices are cratering to unbelievable lows, China’s growth that’s been propelling the whole world is…
When the chips are down, and the transistors are shrinking, and the deadline hour is nigh, Thomas Friedman—a professional—can whip up a newspaper column faster than you can say “It is a shame that you are not writing for Highlights for Kids, sir.” Today, in the most valuable op-ed space in all of journalism, Thomas…