To show that they care about the environment, companies will now have to say how many tonnes of CO2 they produce each year. This is the first time that companies will be required to say how many tonnes of CO2 they produce each year. Yesterday, Wall Street’s top regulator gave it the go-ahead for a … Read more

There’s a good analogy for what’s going on in Ukraine based on how the viral images show Russian tanks stuck in mud: More than three weeks into this fight, the Institute for the Study of War thinks it’s going to end in a stalemate (ISW). As you can see, this is how the well-known research … Read more

Cann is in the middle of two big trends: sober-interest and seltzer. If you want to get high, you can drink a low-dose cannabis seltzer that “gets you a little bit high,” co-founder Jake Bullock told us. “It’s kind of like a light, floaty head feeling that’s fun and social,” he said. Its second drink, … Read more

It’s been three weeks since the Russian government invaded Ukraine without any reason. More than 400 multinational companies have left the country. But there are still a lot of people, including a lot of American businesses, making money in the country. Why, in the face of so much public outrage over Russia’s actions, aren’t they … Read more

Last night, the men’s college basketball tournament started, and with it came even more shocking statistics about the rise of sports gambling in the United States and concerns about addiction among young people who are still in high school. The stats are first. According to the American Gaming Association, 45 million people in the United … Read more

The Federal Reserve voted yesterday to raise interest rates for the first time since 2018. Inflation was the main reason for the move. It’s the start of the high-wire balancing act that Chair Jerome Powell has to do. Lean one way, and high prices could stay high for a long time, taking a bigger bite … Read more

During winter evenings, the Senate says that you should have some more than just a little bit of sunshine in your pocket. Last week, it passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time a permanent part of our lives. But the bill still has to get through the House, and it’s surrounded … Read more

Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine has been a wake-up call to European countries that haven’t been paying attention to their military. Germany said that it will buy 35 F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighters to replace its old fleet of Tornado jets with new ones. A lot of money has been spent on the country’s … Read more

People should ask: What does China, the great superpower of the East, think about all of this? A lot of people in the United States want to know more. Since Russia started taking over Ukraine, it has sent its national security adviser to Rome to meet with a top Chinese diplomat. This is the first … Read more

OJ. The world as it is. Speeds are very slow on the web. I think about the 1990s as a different world, but at the same time, they are very familiar. But what was it like to live through the 1990s? He spent his pandemic trying to figure that out. His new book, The Nineties, … Read more