Retail is a tough business.One day, your favorite brand can be riding high and enjoying strong sales from loyal customers, while the next it’s fighting for survival and fending off…
It’s simpler than ever for students to cheat on their homework using ChatGPT or another AI chatbot. But one professor says he has no trouble sniffing out machine-written work.”I have…
On August 1, Daniela Perez received three separate emails from her student-loan servicer, MOHELA. The first read “Your payment is due soon.” Then “Account is over 210 days delinquent.” Finally: “Loan default is approaching.”She immediately logged in to her account,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ruth Olinger, 70, who is raising her grandson on her own in Lakeland, Florida. Olinger had earlier fostered dozens of children and did mission work. Now, Olinger said she can’t retire…
My oldest daughter is entering her senior year of high school, and instead of adding savings to a college fund to send her off to school, I’ve invested heavily in her extracurricular activities over the past decade.This choice hasn’t always…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bryan Reed, a 24-year-old startup founder based in New York City. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I was burning out this spring. In July of 2025, my cofounder and I created Freeport Markets, a trading app that lets people trade…
Aga’s Restaurant is one of the busiest in the country, serving 4,000 customers every day at its main location in Houston. Its Pakistani and Indian menu features more than 100 items. Aga’s has also transformed into the busiest single-location restaurant on Uber Eats. Pulling that off takes a huge team…
I’ve been saying I don’t want kids since I was a kid myself. In fact, as I got older, I became convinced I didn’t even like being around them.It wasn’t…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to…
This spring, I saw a TikTok that intrigued me. Befuddled me, maybe I should say. A woman sat on her bed and screamed into a pillow. The text across the middle of the screen read, “this feels worse than texting…
Splitting the differenceMost people settle their taxes in April. I used to do a bit of accounting every Sunday morning.My weekly routine wasn’t with the IRS. Instead, I’d settle up with a hodgepodge of friends I crossed paths with over…
Consumers are trying to save money — just not on $30 delivery burritos.DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart all posted strong sales growth in their quarterly results earlier this month, showing that consumers are still willing to shell out for groceries…
Shane Arthur, an executive coach in Raleigh, North Carolina, advises clients to avoid working on Sundays — and to start their workweeks by avoiding meetings on Monday mornings. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I believe in startup…
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Nothing annoys Uber driver Levi Spires more than a passenger who makes him wait.Riders don’t have to make conversation or tip to earn five stars from Spires, who said he gives most passengers the top rating. If a rider keeps…
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Youth sports is now a $40 billion industry, and the average family spent $1,016 on their child’s primary sport in 2024, a 45% increase from just five years ago, according to Aspen Institute’s Project Play.When I saw this number, I…
Bill Marler’s business is booming — and that’s not great for the rest of us.Marler is a food safety lawyer, defending people who’ve been sickened by foodborne illness. He has been doing this for 33 years, with such high-profile wins…
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Buying a home already comes with plenty to consider, like price and location, but if you have children or plan to start a family, childcare should also be part of the equation.Some parents pay upward of $45,000 a year in…
I’m 53, and my partner is 29. When I moved to Mexico City and we started dating, I posted a photo of us to Instagram, and my American friends lost their minds.The daddy references started immediately. When one person asked…
More travelers are shelling out for the best airplane seats amid a boom in premium travel, driving airlines to develop increasingly complex business-class seats — some of which are proving to be a headache for carriers and manufacturers alike.Since COVID-19, airlines have been…
At OpenAI, understanding AI’s impact on jobs is a job in itself.Employees on the company’s economic research team are tasked with studying how the technology is affecting workers, businesses, institutions, and the broader economy.The ChatGPT maker’s chief economist, Ronnie Chatterji,…
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