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Package Tracking Takes a Dark Turn in “Paper Towels”
When an online order goes missing, employees are often blamed. But how should they be punished? Now premium users get to decide. Source link
Swedan Margen
Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
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Politics
The Eternally Unrealized MAGA Crack-Up
The bitterness of the very online right is unlikely to register with the vast majority of GOP voters. Source link
Business
Temasek sees more opportunities in Europe after investing S$10b in the region last year
Singapore’s state investor Temasek sees growing investment opportunities in Europe as the impact of trade tensions on the economic climate…
Business
Temasek sees more opportunities in Europe after investing S$10 billion in the region last year
Singapore’s state investor Temasek sees growing investment opportunities in Europe as the impact of trade tensions on the economic climate…
Politics
Secret Service suspended six agents without pay after first Trump assassination attempt
The Secret Service suspended six agents who worked the rally last July in Pennsylvania, where President Trump was shot in the ear by a…
News
“Too Much” Remixes the Rom-Com
Starting over in New York is a cliché for a reason; so is starting over by leaving it behind. Lena Dunham, who became the poster child for…
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“Hot Spot,” by Nora Lange
He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He’d paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy. Source link
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The Simplistic Moral Lessons of “Superman”
The world may be going to hell, but the writer and director James Gunn has graced it with a sunshine “Superman.” The most recent…
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Remembrance of Scents Past
But Marks argues that smell is one of the most potent ways to give museum visitors a visceral sense of the past, and to help them remember…
Politics
Jack Ma-backed Ant to add Circle’s stablecoin to global net: sources
Jack Ma-backed Ant Group is working with Circle Internet Group to adopt its stablecoin on the Chinese fintech company’s blockchain…
Business
Singtel’s NCS to invest S$130 million to scale AI adoption in Apac
Singtel’s technology services arm, NCS, will invest S$130 million over the next three years to further its artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Brennan says he's 'clueless' about why FBI authorities want to investigate him
Former CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday that he is "clueless" about what the Justice Department and FBI authorities could be…
Business
AI chip startup Groq discusses US$6 billion valuation, The Information reports
semiconductor startup Groq has spoken to investors about raising between US$300 million and US$500 million at a US$6 billion…
News
Amy Bloom’s Favorite Family Novels
Amy Bloom’s latest novel, “I’ll Be Right Here,” tells the story of a single family across more than eight decades. The span of the book…
Politics
Trump says Brennan, Comey 'crooked as hell,' may have to 'pay the price'
President Trump said John Brennan and James Comey might have to "pay a price" for their possible wrongdoing amid the Russia hoax. Source…
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“A Marriage at Sea” Is a Study of Couplehood in Extremis
“To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense of…
Business
Linda Yaccarino to step down as CEO of Elon Musk's social media site X
Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of social media site X, said Wednesday that she’s stepping down from her role after two years at the…
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A Rogue District Judge Forces a Confrontation with the Executive Branch
In the conflict over Planned Parenthood funding, the president is duty-bound to defend and implement federal law. Source link
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Online Alt-Right Accounts Aren’t Always What They Seem
Pro-America conservatives should take a great deal of ‘dissident’ content with a few caviar spoons of salt, so to speak. Source link
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Midyear Reckoning 2025
Despite cowardice and corruption, here are the year’s best movies so far. Source link
Business
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which…
Business
Contributor: The human brain doesn't learn, think or recall like an AI. Embrace the difference
Recently, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, whose company builds the chips powering today’s most advanced artificial intelligence systems,…
News
COE premiums rise across the board; Cat A back up above S$100,000
Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums rose across the board for all categories of vehicles in the latest round of bidding on Wednesday…