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Photo Bernie Sanders Credit Jae C. Hong/Associated Press Bernie Sanders’s loss in the Nevada caucuses, 47 percent to 53 percent, reveals a very real weakness of his insurgent challenge to Hillary Clinton. According to entrance polls — which may have had some problems of their own, problems that we’ll discuss shortly — Sanders’s appeal is…
Photo Credit Eiko Ojala ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at first, but passions have since waned. Those movements have come to look imperfect, even ugly: For one thing, they have failed to touch ideas, culture, religion or social norms, especially the…
Photo Joshua Reeves, a founder of the payroll management start-up Gusto. “Even in downturns, some businesses succeed,” he said of the shifting economic environment. Credit Ramin Rahimian for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Technology stocks are gyrating. Valuations for once-vaunted private companies have been slashed and some start-ups have shut down. Even Apple’s…
If you haven’t heard, this post entitled “An Open Letter to My CEO” went viral over the weekend on Medium. Talia Jane, a 25-year-old employee of Yelp/Eat24, wrote the letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman to tell her story–a story that includes “crying in the bathtub every week” because of hunger pains and taking a…
Photo The vaccine for human papillomavirus, a cause of cervical cancer, has proved effective, but immunization rates remain low. Credit Joe Raedle/Getty Images A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said Monday….
The website that will be the exclusive home to all of Bill Simmons’s written material revealed itself on Wednesday when Simmons, the former editor-in-chief of Grantland, announced he would front a new site in late spring or early summer called “The Ringer.” The editor-in-chief of the new site will be Sean Fennessey, who previously worked as…
Mayor Bill de Blasio gave an upadate on the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak in the South Bronx. Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Basset is to his right and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is on his left. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeff Mays MANHATTAN — Top officials at a Manhattan nonprofit gave themselves hundreds of thousand dollars…
San Francisco needs to lower the cost of housing. That’s the CEO of Yelp talking. Jeremy Stoppelman made those comments via Twitter in responding to a former employee’s open letter complaining about the company’s low wages and the struggle to get by in San Francisco. The letter, written by Talia Jane, detailed her experiences working…
The only way you can describe how you feel is that you feel minimized. You feel crushed and smothered. You’re constantly second-guessing yourself; your feelings, your perceptions, your memories, and a small, suffocated part inside of you wonders whether you are actually going crazy. You feel neurotic, you feel hyper-sensitive and you feel an overwhelming…
Dear Jeremy, When I was a kid, back in the 90s when Spice Girls and owning a pager were #goals, I dreamed of having a car and a credit card and my own apartment. I told my 8-year old self, This is what it means to be an adult. Now, seventeen years later, I have…