Experts weigh in on wellness culture’s obsession with natural fibers and the growing trend of people shunning plastic-based clothing A few months ago, Lane Koch made a decision: she would purge her family’s closets of all plastic-based fabrics and replace them with natural fibers, such as cotton and linen. Koch, ...
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Burnham pauses plan to release some prisoners early from SeptemberBurnham pauses plan to release some prisoners early from September
The prime minister says no prisoners will be released until a review has been conducted. ...
Mum and daughter who died at beach were trying to save boy, 7Mum and daughter who died at beach were trying to save boy, 7
Shally Rahman and teenager Samiha Rahman were pulled from the water, emergency services say. ...
Alphabet’s free cash flow turns negativeAlphabet’s free cash flow turns negative
Alphabet is spending like there’s no tomorrow, and it’s freaking shareholders out. Its shares dropped 7% after it raised its AI spending for the third time this year to $205 billion. Its free cash flow turned negative for the first time in its 22 years as a public company, and ...
IBM top exec makes the case for a quarterly earnings rethinkIBM top exec makes the case for a quarterly earnings rethink
IBM’s earnings whiff could give the Trump administration more ammunition to rethink the quarterly earnings treadmill, which a top company executive called “outdated.” “It forces companies to do irrational things” like offering steep end-of-quarter discounts, IBM Vice Chair Gary Cohn said in an interview. (IBM chose not to do those ...
Sports betting takes a financial tollSports betting takes a financial toll
Sports betting is degrading the financial health of the most vulnerable households, according to a new study that tees up an emerging political issue. The study, which draws on transaction data from more than 180,000 households, found that sports betting doesn’t replace shopping or other gambling, like lottery tickets or ...
Lina Khan gets a new NYC gigLina Khan gets a new NYC gig
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s uneasy truce with New York’s business elite was tested again Wednesday when he appointed antitrust crusader Lina Khan to a formal post in his administration. Khan will chair the city’s economic development board, which oversees the leasing and use of huge chunks of city property, including Hudson ...
How to just do thingsHow to just do things
by Cate Hall with Sasha Chapin. A couple of years ago, we highlighted Hall’s Substack on how to be “agentic,” the master of one’s own destiny. She now has a book out on the same subject — we’d like to think we were the agents of destiny there — on ...
‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked!
To mark the two-time Oscar nominee’s recent 50th birthday, we rate his finest screen roles – from hyper-British patricians and seething serpents, to ghastly Yanks, tragic codebreakers and sci-fi scoundrels Benedict Cumberbatch does his considerable best opposite the equally prestigious Olivia Colman in this souped-up marital-breakdown dramedy, essentially remade from ...
‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases – and Maha is weaponizing it‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases – and Maha is weaponizing it
People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on it Emily Rae Detrick, a health coach, wants women to be more in touch with their menstrual cycle in its entirety. This, she said on an October episode of Culture Apothecary with Alex ...