The social sector is in severe distress. Nonprofits serving communities across the US have faced an existential crisis since January 2025, when the Trump administration and its allies in Congress began a series of actions targeting the sector. Nonprofits have been reeling from these actions, even as demand for their services has increased as a…
One real estate agent in Atlanta offered their client a free week-long vacation in an Airbnb owned by the home’s seller as part of a home-buying deal. Another in Charlotte, North Carolina offered an all-expenses-paid cruise. As the buyer’s market continues, home sellers have had to get creative in incentivizing their sales, and it’s led…
Harvard has a secret backdoor. Most applicants have never heard of it. Harvard doesn’t advertise it on its admissions website. There’s no box to check on the Common Application. Yet each year, a small cohort of applicants is offered admission through a different pathway. They don’t enroll with the incoming class. Harvard admits them on…
Chinese consumers are keeping a tight grip on their wallets—but apparently not when it comes to Alo. Retail sales in China rose just 0.4% year over year in August, half the pace economists polled by Reuters had expected. Weak consumption and a prolonged property downturn had already helped drag second-quarter GDP growth to 4.3%, the…
In 2023, extreme heat and drought damaged Japan’s rice crop, and a year later, that damage turned into a national shortage so severe, it forced a government minister to resign. By 2026, Japan had swung so far in the opposite direction that it was sitting on a record surplus, forcing the government to buy rice…
Anthony Scotto III already knows what he wants to do when his rapidly expanding restaurant business finally gives him a moment to breathe: travel to the small Italian island of Ischia and, with a handwritten family address in hand, knock on the door and hope whoever answers doesn’t tell him to get lost. But first,…
The Philadelphia Phillies received an update on their 24-year-old castoff shortly after releasing him.
Bringing iced coffee to a job interview probably isn’t a good idea, career counselors say, but the viral debate could signal shifting workplace norms as Gen Z candidates enter the job market.
The Atlanta Braves 10-time All-Star suggested that he would have remained injured if he had never left the Boston Red Sox training facilities.
The New York Mets’ three-year reliever seemed to question the trade castoffs’ mindset after a surprising change with the Tampa Bay Rays.