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Pinterest says its trend forecasts are 88% accurate. Here’s how its 2026 predictions played out
Pinterest has spent years positioning itself as an early-warning system for what young consumers will want next. The platform began…
Monoculture is dead, and legacy media was able to make ‘Backrooms’ and ‘The Handmaid’ as a result
In 1983, M.A.S.H.’s two-and-a-half-hour finale drew in an estimated 125 million viewers, breaking the record for a television program’s ratings…
Recently, my wife and I have been rewatching prestige TV classics. First, The Americans and, just now, Mad Men. Both…
Getting beaten badly this week by the Belgian national team in the Round of 16 at the World Cup had…
Target is starting to track employees’ unexcused lateness and absences with a points system
The post-pandemic days of coffee badging and logging in from the couch may be coming to an end. More employers…
The world came to America for soccer and discovered ranch dressing. As the FIFA World Cup has drawn hundreds of…
We talked to 12 tarot card readers who are using AI. They split in 2 camps, with big implications for the technology
Of course, the urge to seek answers from forces beyond ourselves is hardly new. For generations, people have turned to…
When a customer at a fast-food counter asks for help, and the teenage employee responds with a blank, unblinking stare,…
A new flex for the ultra-wealthy: Collectibles from a $14.5 million guitar to an $812,500 wine
John Kapon knew that the bottle of 1945 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti up for sale at his New-York based wine…
Jamie Dimon says the best teams work like Navy SEALs, not sprawling ‘flat’ corporations
Corporate America has entered the era of the megamanager. For years now, employers have assigned more and more workers per…












