Disney Employees Walk Out Amid Furor Over Florida Anti-LGBTQ Bill
Several weeks ago, before the Walt Disney Company became entangled in a battle over anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation in Florida — one that continued on Tuesday with walkouts by Disney employees — longtime theme park executives worried there could be trouble ahead. More than 150 companies, including Marriott and American Airlines, had signed a Human More...
BuzzFeed News Top Editor Mark Schoofs to Leave Ahead of Newsroom Cuts
The head of BuzzFeed News and two other top editors are departing the company ahead of cuts to the newsroom. Mark Schoofs, who became the editor in chief in 2020, said in an email on Tuesday to staff members More...
After Boeing Plane Crash in China, a Desperate Hunt for Survivors
Rescue workers assembled for a desperate search Tuesday for any survivors in the crash of a passenger plane carrying 132 people that plunged more than 20,000 feet in just over a minute before crashing in a More...
After Tragedy, a Female Construction Worker Builds Homes
As part of a weekly series on changes in the workplace for women, we’re profiling those who stepped up at a moment of crisis and filled gaps in the labor market during the pandemic. With a harness, hard hat More...
The Lies Putin Tells to Justify Russia’s War on Ukraine
In the tense weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russian officials denied that it planned anything of the sort, denouncing the United States and its NATO allies for stoking panic and anti-Russian More...
Can Travel Be a Force for Peace? This Tour Leader Thinks So.
And now you’re applying this approach to tours in the United States? I used to live in Washington, D.C., which is a very segregated city, especially on a class level, and I realized that my friends and I wouldn’t More...
Credit Companies Will Remove Stains From Repaid Medical Debts
Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — the giant credit-reporting companies that each keep files on roughly 200 million Americans — said on Friday that they will soon wipe away credit stains created by certain More...
How to Fight Inflation With Lessons From History
Up North Annual spending in the Union reached a staggering 16 times its prewar budget. Despite the need for funds, there was great fear in Congress of increasing taxes because of Americans’ well-known antipathy More...
Citigroup Abortion Policy Prompts Texas Lawmaker to Threaten Action
A Texas legislator warned Citigroup on Friday that he would introduce a bill to prevent the bank from underwriting municipal bonds in the state unless it rescinded its policy covering travel expenses for employees More...
Colleges Can Avoid Shutting the Door on Financial Aid Knowledge
This month, scores of applicants to Muhlenberg and Whitman Colleges received offers of admission. Perhaps they were a pleasant surprise for students who had sleepZoomed their way through junior year. But what More...