Airbnb fights its ‘party house problem’
The party houses pose a risk to Airbnb's reputation and business as the $18 billion company prepares to go public this year. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/airbnb-party-house-coronavirus.html
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U.S. voters agree on one thing: They’d feel better owning a gun
In the U.S., spikes in gun purchases are often driven by fear. But in past years that anxiety has centered on concerns that politicians will pass stricter gun controls. Mass...
How the virus slowed the booming wind energy business
Even as businesses around the world shut down this spring, executives at EDF Renewables were hopeful they would finish installing 99 wind turbines in southern Nebraska before a year-end deadline....
Let 1,000 coronavirus flowers bloom
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Ansel Oommen, an artist and medical lab technologist, volunteered to analyze nasal swabs for patients at the large hospital in New York City...
How Trump and Bolsonaro broke Latin America’s COVID-19 defenses
The coronavirus was gathering lethal speed when President Donald Trump met his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, on March 7 for dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bolsonaro had canceled trips that week to...
Game day in Green Bay: Empty sports bars, full hospitals
In a town that lives or dies with its Packers, the metaphor takes on a somewhat chilling hue in the middle of a pandemic.
For Italy’s masked rap diva, an era of face coverings poses a dilemma
This month, with a second wave of the coronavirus rising and Italy requiring the wearing of masks in public at all times, grandparents, politicians, middle-management businesspeople, doctors, lawyers, delivery people...
Sausage rolls: A childhood favorite reimagined
As a professional baker and an owner of Bourke Street Bakery, Paul Allam's goal has been to tweak the humble sausage roll into something reflecting his adult sensibilities, using better...
‘At capacity’: COVID-19 patients push U.S. hospitals to brink
More than 41,000 people are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus in the United States, a 40% rise in the past month, and cooler weather that pushes more people indoors is...
‘We are not going to lie down’: A coronavirus revolt in England
The first time the police came to the Body Tech Fitness gym it was with a polite warning. But four hours later they were back, and this time in force.