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Hollywood’s strike enters its final act, as writers reach a deal

Dust-sheets cover the sets inside one soundproofed Hollywood studio, as placard-wielding writers and actors make as much noise as they can outside. The covers have been on since May, when America’s writers...

Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom?

STANTON, TENNESSEE, looks like a place from a bygone age. The town hall quaintly resembles a 1960s grocery store. Next door is a cannery, where townsfolk use communal stoves to make soups...

Does the car-workers’ strike threaten America’s industrial boom?

STANTON, TENNESSEE, looks like a place from a bygone age. The town hall quaintly resembles a 1960s grocery store. Next door is a cannery, where townsfolk use communal stoves to make soups...

Rupert Murdoch isn’t going anywhere just yet

“TO WALK AWAY and retire, it’s a pretty dismal prospect,” Rupert Murdoch told an interviewer in 1998, when he was already well into pensionable age. If he ever did stop working, he...

Why it is a bad idea for managers to attempt to engineer office friendships

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Scholars of happiness have found that close relationships are one of the critical...

Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.OVER RECENT decades the oil-rich economies of the Gulf have shown a taste...

Big pharma can’t get enough of one class of cancer drugs

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.AROUND THE world, dealmaking is in a rut. A combination of higher interest...

Friendships in the office

Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Scholars of happiness have found that close relationships are one of the critical...

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