These Businesses Thrived as Others Struggled to Survive As the pandemic ravaged small businesses across America, some were surprised — and conflicted — about their success. Happy Cork, a wine shop that Sunshine Foss and her husband opened in Brooklyn a year before the pandemic, specializes in products from Black-owned businesses. Small businesses were devastated […]
‘I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up Gabriel Gordon shuttered his popular barbecue restaurant in California after the state saw a resurgence of coronavirus cases and imposed new restrictions. More owners are permanently shutting their doors after new lockdown orders, realizing that there may be no end in sight to the crisis. […]
YouTube Is Erasing History. Under pressure to remove “extremist content,” platforms are purging vital human rights evidence. In war zones, evidence captured on smartphones can provide a path to justice — but platforms like YouTube and Facebook are getting in the way. In the Video Op-Ed above, the Syrian activist and archivist Hadi Al Khatib urges platforms […]
You Too Can Play the Handbag Stock Market. Don’t think of those totes and saddle bags as just pretty accessories. They could also be an investment portfolio. Earlier this year Kylie Jenner, the beauty mogul and Kardashian-Jenner family member, gave one of her patented home tours to Architectural Digest. It featured her collection of Pop Art, arcade games […]
