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Welcome Back, Chile
The U.S. has a renewed ally in this South American success story. Source link
Swedan Margen
Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
Swedan covers business developments, emerging companies, entrepreneurial stories, and trends influencing industries and the broader economy.
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Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
Business
What happens to Roombas now that the company has declared bankruptcy?
Roomba maker iRobot filed for bankruptcy and will go private after being acquired by its Chinese supplier Picea Robotics. Founded 35 years…
Politics
Trump team uses security guarantee to pressure Ukraine on peace deal
U.S. officials said on Monday that they've developed a peace deal to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, which would provide…
Politics
The Bondi Beach Tragedy
What did Australia’s Labor government think the mob meant by ‘globalize the intifada’? Source link
Business
US: Wall Street opens higher as investors gear up for data-packed week
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Dec 15), rebounding from a tech-driven rout last week, while investors braced for a…
Business
MUFG said to near deal for stake in India’s Shriram
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is nearing a deal to buy a minority stake in India’s Shriram Finance, according to people familiar with the…
Politics
A Health Care Opportunity for Republicans
Let the enhanced subsidies expire, explain to voters that Obamacare is broken, and advance plans to fix it. Source link
News
Luci Gutiérrez’s “Inside Story”
The cover of the December 22, 2025, special Cartoons & Puzzles issue, by Luci Gutiérrez, celebrates the particular mixture of zaniness and…
Politics
The Year in Trump Cashing In
On January 17, 2025, three days before Trump’s second Inauguration, he took another leap into the crypto world, releasing a new meme coin:…
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Stephen Sondheim, Puzzle Maestro
Most of the book, though, is devoted to a “ludological biography” of the great man: a life in puzzle pieces, hitherto unassembled.…
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Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
The first business dedicated to the manufacture and sale of shokuhin sampuru was founded in 1932 in Osaka by Iwasaki Takizō, one of the…
Business
Raffles Education leads most active pack on SGX with 43 million shares traded; price jumps 24%
Counter hits peak of S$0.133 on Monday; volume is 4 times its average daily figure Raffles Education led the pack of actives on the…
Business
Middle East oil market weakens as glut concerns gain traction
The IEA, meanwhile, projects output will exceed consumption by 3.8 million barrels a day in 2026 The Middle Eastern oil market has…
Business
Tokyo Gas to steer more than half of overseas investments to US in next three years, CEO says
The Japanese utility has a long-term contract to procure 1.1 million tonnes of LNG annually from Russia’s Sakhalin-2 project Tokyo Gas,…
Politics
House Republicans set to vote on 'responsible alternative' to Obamacare
The House will vote this week on a Republican health care package that Speaker Mike Johnson said will provide "clear, responsible…
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Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”
Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, Source link
Politics
'Not a priority': GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy criticizes FDA's delay on mifepristone study
Sen. Bill Cassidy said Sunday the Trump administration isn't treating abortion drug safety as a priority. Source link
Business
Wall Street sees an AI bubble forming and is gaming what pops it
Looking to 2026, investors debate cutting AI exposure or doubling down to ride a potentially game-changing boom It has been three years…
News
What a Bodega Taught the Socialist
Zohran Mamdani now says he wants to cut red tape for NYC small businesses. He should apply that epiphany across the board. Source link
News
The True Toll of Conspiracy Theories
I witnessed Charlie Kirk’s murder. Conspiracy theorists are only making this heinous act worse. Source link
Culture
The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi…
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The Best Things I Ate in 2025
Trends in restaurants are like trends in art: cumulative, ambient, much more evident in retrospect than they are in the chaos of the…
Business
ServiceNow nears up to US7 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Armis
ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal that may be valued at as much as US$7 billion and would…