Yoweri Museveni Egypt's Sisi, Uganda's Museveni extend rule unlike Sudan, AlgeriaQuartz - Yomi KazeemEgypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni have had a good week by recent standards for African strongmen leaders. Sisi, who first took office in 2014, could now rule Egypt until 2030 after
Microsoft Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversityQuartz - Dave GershgornSome Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online messaging board meant for communicating with CEO Satya Nadella. Two posts the
Aidy Bryant Why novelist Sally Rooney is afraid she'll never write againQuartz - Sarah ToddAt just 28 years old, Sally Rooney is already the author of two critically acclaimed novels—and she thinks it’s possible she’ll never write another book. That would be sad, the Irish writer acknowledged
Finance Firms that finance the pot industry shouldn’t be drug testing employeesQuartz - Ephrat LivniThere’s nothing like a growth industry to excite investors and financiers. Just look at the cannabis business, which is expected to generate hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide in the coming years
Meditation "Tap In" is a new app for live meditation at workQuartz - Lila MacLellanEvery weekday, just before 3 pm, my phone buzzes with a notification to “tap in” or “check in” or “breathe together.” Most days, I obey. I look for a comfortable place to sit, preferably stepping away
Adidas Adidas’s recyclable Futurecraft.Loop sneaker took years to executeQuartz - Marc BainAdidas’s new Futurecraft.Loop sneaker claims to have achieved a holy grail of sorts for the fashion and footwear industries. For years these businesses have been talking about finding ways to “close the
Women's News Into their 30s, men get way more money from their parents than womenQuartz - Jenny AndersonThree-quarters of young adults say becoming financially independent from their parents is a key sign of becoming an adult. On this front, they appear to be failing. According to a new report from Merrill
China China’s Grove startup could grow up to be the BYD of fuel-cell carsQuartz - Echo HuangChina’s next big thing in electric vehicles could be fuel-cell cars—and the Shanghai Auto Show offered clues to one Chinese firm that might become a symbol of the industry. Grove Hydrogen Automotive, fuel-cell
Stroke victims could be put at risk by a close-knit familyQuartz - Oliver StaleyIsolation is bad for your health. Men and women who live alone are at higher risk for heart attacks, and loneliness is linked to a range of illnesses, from depression to diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease.
Military History Japan's World War II poster propaganda against Britain in IndiaQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaAgainst a blood-splattered background, a brown, turbaned man is shown with his forefinger outstretched, angrily pointing, almost out of the poster and at the viewer. Upon closer examination, the gory background
South Delhi Lodhi Colony Delhi is India's first public art districtQuartz - Sangeeta TanwarWalls in the quiet, leafy lanes of Lodhi Colony have suddenly come alive. After sequestering private compounds from each other—and from non-residents—for years, they are now bringing people in Delhi and
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu's first transgender woman candidate in election 2019Quartz - Annalisa MerelliOn April 16, the last day of campaigning before Tamil Nadu voted on April 18, one of the candidates spent the morning in capital city Chennai’s famous Kapaleeshwarar temple, greeting devotees and distributing
Business (India) India bans TikTok over porn, but not Facebook, Twitter, InstagramQuartz - Ananya BhattacharyaTikTok is in some serious trouble in India. Though it isn’t the only one battling a rising tide of porn, violence, and fake news, the country’s courts have singled out the Chinese video-sharing app for
Robert Mueller All 488 pages of the Mueller report, visualizedQuartz - Amanda ShendrukUS attorney general William Barr released special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report today. It details his team’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. The
Robert Mueller The Mueller report has two spaces after every sentenceQuartz - Natasha FrostThere’s a scandal in the 446 pages of the special counsel’s report on interference in the 2016 US presidential elections—and it has nothing to do with Russia. Instead, it’s of the typographical kind: a
Lyft Zoom, a video-conferencing company, soars 72% at closingQuartz - Michelle ChengZoom, the developer of video conferencing software, is now a public company. Shares soared over 80% in its public debut today. Shares, which began trading at $65 a piece, closed at $62, up 72.2% from price
Robert Mueller What now? How House Democrats may act on the Mueller reportQuartz - Ana Campoy“Game over” US president Donald Trump tweeted today after attorney general William Barr told Americans that the special counsel report he was about to release concluded that Trump’s presidential campaign
Happiness Zoom stock soars over 70% on trading debutQuartz - Michelle Cheng“Life is all about the pursuit of happiness. The greatest, most sustainable happiness comes from making others happy. Delivering happiness is what we do at Zoom,” notes Zoom founder and CEO Eric S. Yuan
Don McGahn Mueller report says Trump called his lawyer a “lying bastard”Quartz - Justin RohrlichDonald Trump has a dubious relationship with the truth, judging by special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report on alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian agents working to swing the
IPOs Zoom Video Communications IPO also lifts Zoom TechnologiesQuartz - Alison GriswoldThe Zooms are zooming. Zoom Video Communications, Inc., also known as Zoom, went public today on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Zoom, which licenses video-conferencing technology, made $7.5 million in 2018,
Mukesh Ambani India’s richest man has endorsed a candidate—and it’s not ModiQuartz - Itika Sharma PunitIndia’s richest man has picked a side in the ongoing parliamentary elections—and it’s not the one that was widely expected. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has come out in support of Milind
WikiLeaks Mueller report on Trump campaign's contacts with WikiLeaksQuartz - Max de HaldevangWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made his opposition to Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy known from the start, according to Robert Mueller’s report. “It would be much better for GOP to win,” Assange
Mueller Report Mueller report uses circular reasoning on obstruction of justiceQuartz - Ephrat LivniSpecial counsel Robert Mueller didn’t recommend that US president Donald Trump be charged with obstruction of justice. However, Mueller’s just-issued report also doesn’t say that Trump didn’t obstruct
Yelp Zagat wants to fix the Yelp review modelQuartz - Annaliese GriffinForty years ago, Tim and Nina Zagat, two New York City lawyers, published the first of what would become an annual slim, burgundy volume of restaurant recommendations. Zagat Guides quickly became indispensable
Trump Tower Moscow Mueller’s 11 findings about Trump and obstruction of justiceQuartz - Ephrat LivniThe special counsel’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections is an epic at 448 pages, including exhibits. It will take time to digest and analyze the document. Still, a few
William Barr 3 ways William Barr misled America about the Mueller reportQuartz - Heather TimmonsUS attorney general William Barr’s press conference about the Mueller report this morning was already being scrutinized for potential partisan bias—and then the full report came out. Barr’s remarks during
Instagram Millions of Instagram users had their passwords exposedQuartz - Mike MurphyGiven the terrible run of form it’s been on over the last year, it probably shouldn’t be that surprising that Facebook waited until the highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 US
California California's population could start shrinking very soonQuartz - Dan KopfPeople have long dreamed of moving to California, but increasingly the people in the state are looking to get out. According to recently released data from the US Census, about 38,000 more people left
Donald Trump Five key takeaways from the Mueller report on Trump and RussiaQuartz - Heather TimmonsA redacted version of the long-awaited Mueller report was finally released today by the US Department of Justice. Nearly two years in the making, the 450-page document traces the investigative efforts
