America
Donald Trump is giving Americans a fair amount of reasons to drink these days — threatening to obliterate Iran, or flirting with a takeover of Greenland. But the president is, perhaps counterintuitively, also part of why people are laying off the booze. Trump’s policies and rhetoric are killing America’s buzz.Americans…
My older brother, Fergus, and I have spent most of our adult lives chasing the same thing — just never in the same place at the same time. Loading audio narration… We’re both adventurous, but our lives have unfolded on different continents since 2009. That was the year he left…
Khartoon Weiss, the former lead executive for TikTok’s North American ads business, is joining Google. Loading audio narration… She’ll serve as vice president of US Mid Market Sales (MMS), Commerce, according to a memo sent to Google employees on Monday.MMS typically handles medium-sized advertising clients for Google. The commerce team…
Sunny Stroeer spent much of her 20s in a male-dominated environment as a management consultant at Bain. She said it wasn’t until she left the corporate world and became an adventure athlete that she experienced such noticeable gender bias. Loading audio narration… She was climbing Aconcagua in Argentina — one…
Three years ago, my partner and I packed everything we owned into a bright yellow campervan and decided to live on the road full-time.Since then, we’ve been to 49 states and nine Canadian provinces and territories, and have experienced once-in-a-lifetime moments along the way.The experience has been overwhelmingly positive so…
In 2018, I moved to Ecuador for a “short time,” only to find myself captivated. I stayed for over seven years.During my time in Ecuador, I was lucky enough to travel across the country, and though I was awed by the lush life in the Amazon rainforest, wowed by the…
Some Americans want to be Chinese now. China isn’t sure how to feel about that.On TikTok, non-Chinese American creators are filming themselves boiling apples, practicing tai chi at sunrise, and drinking hot water — all soundtracked to traditional Chinese instrumentals or clips from Mulan. They call it “Chinamaxxing,” and the…
