Business
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Betty Rollin, Who Wrote Candidly About Her Breast Cancer, Dies at 87
Her coping with illness was the subject of a popular memoir, “First, You Cry.” In “Last Wish,” a best seller, she wrote about helping her mother end her life.
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X May Lose Up to $75 Million in Revenue as More Advertisers Pull Out
Internal documents show companies like Airbnb, Coca-Cola and Microsoft have halted ads, or are at risk of doing so, after Elon Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
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In the Stock Market, Don’t Buy and Sell. Just Hold.
There’s new evidence that market timing doesn’t work. Your odds of success are better if you just hang on and aim for average returns, our columnist says.
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Turkey Raises Interest Rates to 40 Percent to Tame Runaway Inflation
The country’s central bank increased rates by 5 percentage points in an attempt to deal with the soaring cost of household necessities and the devaluing of the lira.
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Nissan Will Build More Electric Cars in England
The company said it would build three electric models at its plant in northeast England, bolstering the future of Britain’s auto industry.
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These Retail Workers Make Your Holiday Shopping Spree Possible
It’s the busiest time of year in the retail and logistics industries. Here’s how employees at four of the biggest retailers pull it off.
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Black Friday Isn’t What It Used to Be
Big discounts, many of them online only, start appearing well before Thanksgiving and will run long after. Some people still go to the mall, though.
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The Pension: That Rare Retirement Benefit Gets a Fresh Look
As the downsides of 401(k)-style plans become apparent, workers and some companies, including IBM, are showing new interest in defined benefit plans.
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The Store Where Christmas Started in September
A little before noon on Oct. 5, Richard Morrison was hanging a glass ornament that resembled a head of garlic on a small metal tree. It was one of several trees that had been installed inside a John Derian store in Manhattan’s East Village ...
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Charles Peters, Neoliberal Founder of The Washington Monthly, Dies at 96
His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.