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Over the past two decades, dozens of behavioral scientists have risen to prominence pointing out the power of small interventions to improve well-being.The scientists said they had found that automatically enrolling people...

I married my wife last October in a backyard wedding that my parents hosted and covered for $5,000. My wife’s mother gave us an equivalent honeymoon fund to fly us to France,...

Last week, the Federal Reserve held off raising interest rates after 10 increases in a row, instead waiting to assess how the economy has responded to the sharp rise in rates so...

Meghan Trainor, the pop star, is sitting in an empty marble bathtub, fully clothed and flanked by two of her friends. The three of them begin soulfully crooning an a cappella version...

Dave Willner has had a front-row seat to the evolution of the worst things on the internet.He started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their...

The downpour began in late May, drenching the wheat crops in central China. As kernels of wheat blackened in the rain, becoming unfit for human consumption, the government mobilized emergency teams to...

Traditional travel insurance won’t swoop in with paramedics, even though it typically covers the cost of an emergency. Dan Richards, the chief executive of Global Rescue, told DealBook that he wanted to...

A knock on the large unmarked wooden door opposite Lviv’s city hall. A man in a military uniform holding a German-made rifle answers. Password, he demands.“Slava Ukrayini.” Glory to Ukraine.“Heroy am slava,”...

The media mogul Barry Diller has pulled The Daily Beast off the auction block.Mr. Diller, the chairman of the digital media company IAC, said on Friday that The Daily Beast — a...

Thousands of workers at organized Starbucks stores across the nation will stage strikes over the next week, their union said on Friday, after workers in some states said management prohibited them from...