More
-
News
Hanging Drapery Is Harder Than You’d Think. But You Can Do It.
When you’re choosing curtains for a room, there are so many things to consider. Jake Arnold, an interior designer in Los Angeles, walks us through it.
-
News
How Automation Has Changed Work for Casino Employees in Detroit
On a chilly Wednesday evening in October, the sounds filling Ambre Romero’s home were familiar: her grandchildren unloading the dishwasher, her husband, just off work, watching television. Ms. Romero was getting ready for her shift serving cocktails ...
-
Books
‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas
Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling with pungent life.
-
Newyork
Congestion Pricing Delays Threaten Subway Projects, M.T.A. Chair Says
The News New Jersey’s attempt to block new tolls to enter Manhattan risks the funding to improve the subway and bus network, New York transit officials said on Wednesday. New York transit officials warn that any delays to the congestion pricing ...
-
News
Chasing Big Mergers, Oil Executives Dismiss Peak Oil Concerns
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
-
Newyork
Stop Micromanaging Halloween — Let Your Kids Be Free
I started hearing about the Switch Witch a few years ago. If you’re not in the know, she’s the Halloween cousin of that narc, Elf on the Shelf, a symbol of the rank combination of child surveillance and endless materialism that dictates so much of ...
-
World
Biden Seeks to Tame Oil Prices if Mideast Conflict Sends Them Soaring
The president has previously drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease price pressures, but that could be more difficult now
-
US
Alphabet Has Strong Ad Sales but Cloud Business Disappoints
Google’s parent company reported that sales were up 11 percent from a year ago while profit jumped 42 percent to $19.7 billion.
-
World
Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light
Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris.
-
News
What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial
As the government wraps up its case in the landmark monopoly trial, it has built a picture of how Google became dominant in online search — and the harms that it says resulted.