The CEO of Chipotle became the new CEO of Starbucks last month. Here’s what this may portend for the Longtime Starbucks Customer (a sales category which denotes loyalty as well as the wait for your vente Americano)

Twenty-three years ago today, a tragedy so appalling that all it takes are its month and day to identify it, claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people and changed the lives of uncountable others.

As summer begins to wane so does the late-afternoon/early-evening, elegant/awkward ritual known as the soirée.

SOAR BUSINESS—United Airlines recently announced it’s going to personalize the ads you see on the seat-back screen in front of you when all you’re trying to do is watch a rerun of “Seinfeld.”

A new Goldman State Podcast drops every Friday! QUIBBLES & BITS: Coffee, Insects and Cheese...

In popular myth, probably based on reality, public executions often occur at dawn.

A new Goldman State Podcast drops every Friday! QUIBBLES & BITS: Coffee, Insects and Cheese...

Years ago when Jay Leno overtook David Letterman in the late-night TV wars, Letterman’s people responded to the news with typical insouciance:

Compared to what Pompeiian kids were allowed to watch pre-Vesuvius—the volcano that wiped out the city and its suburbs, killing 16,000 people and no doubt interrupting garbage collection service for a few years—the violent video games today’s kids play may be as tame as “My Little Pony.” Or at least “My Little Pony: This Time It’s Personal.”

American newspapers continue to plummet from daily-habit status,supreme influencer and convenient training aid for recalcitrant puppies (rolled up and deployed to gently pat snouts or bottoms for disciplinary purposes or laid on a kitchen floor to accommodate bodily functions when the weather is forbidding).

A distinguished scientist says he’s come up with an economical way to cool down earth’s climate.

Somewhere along the line, you must have heard poet Ogden Nash’s decidedly non-PC advice to guys about dating: “Candy is dandy/But liquor is quicker.” It’s from his poem “Reflections on Ice-Breaking.”