In the United States as in many other societies, rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, drug abuse, self-harm (including suicides) and other mental health problems greatly increase during the holiday season and just after the New Year. In the American context, this crisis is largely explained as a reflection of private and personal troubles rather than … Read more
TAP Air Portugal plans to increase its routes to the Americas for summer 2023, offering 17 additional flights for the season, the carrier announced Wednesday. The increase “will restore pre-pandemic flight levels.” Service to the United States will increase by 10 additional flights per week in 2023, with Boston increasing to 14, Miami and Washington, … Read more
Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a wave of unemployment under way. Amazon.com, Disney and Facebook parent Meta Platforms are all suddenly recognizing that they overhired … Read more
It has long been evident that Elon Musk is a moron, at least to those willing to see it. Well before the Tesla CEO overpaid for Twitter in the throes of a tantrum, there was a chorus of mostly-ignored people pointing out, repeatedly, that Musk’s mental maturity appeared to have stagnated around the sixth grade. … Read more
The US looks set to withdraw a record number of books from the country’s schools and libraries this year as America’s culture wars place growing pressure on children, educators and publishers. Fresh estimates from the American Library Association and PEN America, which campaigns for literary freedom, show a surge in recent efforts by parents, advocacy … Read more
Alexandra de Vaux FCM has named Alexandra de Vaux as SVP of sales for the Americas region, the travel management company announced. The promotion for New York-based de Vaux expands her current role overseeing sales and strategy for midmarket clients in the U.S. and Canada to include larger corporate business as well. De Vaux has … Read more
Saying the quiet bit out loud is rarely a good idea. Yet after last week’s midterm success, Democrats cannot help themselves. The gist is that they would love Donald Trump to be the 2024 presidential nominee because his name would all but ensure another Republican defeat. They are probably right about that. Whether Maga Trumpism … Read more
Flowers are placed at a memorial for the slain University of Virginia football players.Photo: Getty Images The University of Virginia’s athletic department shouldn’t be dominating headlines for something like this. UVA Athletics should be in the news like it was in 2018, when the men’s basketball team made history by becoming the first No. 1 … Read more
U.S. elections are administered at the local level — each county, or even municipality, has its own rules, and its own officials to execute them U.S. elections are administered at the local level — each county, or even municipality, has its own rules, and its own officials to execute them When people think about making … Read more
Succession’s Jeremy Strong says he was very nearly cast as Captain America. Well, Captain America’s pre-serum scrawny body anyway. The ideas was that it would be Chris Evans’ head audiences saw, digitally plopped onto Strong’s body. “They told me there was a top-secret film about Captain America,” Strong told The Times U.K. of the for … Read more