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As of last week, the US Census Bureau is taking stock of just how many people in the US speak Tamil—along with Punjabi, Telugu, and Bengali. Historically, the way the US census tracked South Asians was messy and often inaccurate—not tracking them at all or confusing them for white. But their ranks in the US […]

The idea that technology and innovation can have a meaningful impact on African countries is something championed in many of the stories you’ll read on Quartz Africa. We regularly see ingenuity across the continent as different communities try to get around daily challenges, in many cases requiring that they overcome long-term infrastructural deficits. For example, […]

A quarter of Japanese companies have workers clocking more than 80 hours of overtime a month, a statistic that contributes to the increasing alarm around “karoshi,” or “death by overwork,” in the country. Overwork-related compensation claims from dead workers’ families have hit a record high, and a woman’s death after 159 hours of overtime a […]Read More

This weekend, when the New York Times ran a profile (paywall) about the daily life of Donald Trump, we learned that the US president drinks not one or two, but 12—or more!—cans of Diet Coke a day. Journalists, social media users, and citizens of the world at large are in a tizzy. Should anyone be […]

College tuition is sky high. Not entirely coincidentally, so are college presidents’ salaries. The Chronicle of Higher Education today released an annual update to its executive compensation report, adding data on private colleges from 2015, the most recent year for which IRS data on such figures is available. It shows that the average pay for […]

Walking through the American Museum of Natural History, Barnabas Veraa Katuuo found the bones of what could have been his ancestors, murdered in Germany’s first genocide. Katuuo has accused the famed New York City museum of storing the remains of Namibia’s ovaHerero and Nama peoples as part of their vast collection. The genocide perpetrated by […]

During the 17th and 18th centuries, pirates dominated the high seas—raiding ships and seizing whatever they chose. They menaced the waterways, then sold their protection services, cleaning up on both sides. Pirates were the ultimate crony capitalists, taking advantage of favorable political and economic winds to chase spectacular profits and cultivating relationships with high-status officials. […]

Over the last few days, a slew of reporting, inspired by ProPublica, has revealed that it’s actually quite easy, through the programmatic structure of most online advertising, to create ads meant to target those who have espoused racist, antisemitic, or other hateful ideas. Here’s a quick rundown of the major internet companies, and what has […]

Equifax, the credit-reporting agency under fire after a massive hack exposed the personal data of millions of Americans, said two of its top executives are stepping down. But the CEO, Richard Smith, is remaining in charge of the company, despite calls from politicians and pundits for him to resign. The chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, […]

The security breach at the US credit bureau Equifax is bad news for everybody. But one of the most galling things about the hack is how Equifax has made victims responsible for limiting the damage. And since Equifax still hasn’t given reliable information on who exactly was affected, that means everyone in the United States […]

Last week, a Mexican college student disappeared after she got in a car from Cabify, a ride-sharing app similar to Uber, in the city of Puebla. On Friday, Sept. 15, she was found dead in a neighboring state. Authorities say Mara Castilla, 19, was murdered by her Cabify driver in a motel and disposed in […]

St. Louis, Missouri On Friday afternoon, the intersection of Clark Avenue and South Tucker Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri, was silent, and a shoulder-to-shoulder line of over 50 police officers in riot gear began backing up, slowly. Several hours earlier, a judge had declared that Jason Stockley, the former St. Louis police officer who shot […]