by Aarian Marshall | May 20, 2021 | News
Last week, Washington governor Jay Inslee—the guy who, while running for president two years ago, proposed a nationwide ban on sales of gas-powered cars by 2030—vetoed a statewide ban on gas-powered car sales by 2030. The reason for the puzzling move, Inslee said in a...
by Aarian Marshall | May 13, 2021 | News
On Wednesday night, the Colonial Pipeline Company, which operates the country’s largest pipeline system for refined oil, reported that the 5,500-mile system was finally up and running again, with service slated to return to normal by week’s end. It had been four days...
by Aarian Marshall | May 11, 2021 | News
Joe Biden has been president for only four months, but he’s already been hailed as the country’s most pro-labor leader since Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed up at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He wants to make it easier for workers to unionize and would raise the...
by Aarian Marshall | May 4, 2021 | News
With great change comes great experimentation, and that’s what some of the country’s gum and candy makers have been doing since the pandemic began.For one, they’ve recognized that impulse buys are changing. For years, they’ve known that the traditional front-of-store...
by Aarian Marshall | Apr 29, 2021 | News
Much has been made of the pandemic-era exodus to Lake Tahoe, Martha’s Vineyard, or Aspen. White-collar workers, freed of the constraints of the office, last year decamped for more skiing- and hiking-friendly climes—the pandemic’s Zoom towns. The locals were annoyed....
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