Essay
Hilton Picks Kyoto for Its First Motto in Japan — and That Choice Says a Lot
A 108-room hotel opening in 2029 is a small number with a big story behind it: where one global brand thinks travelers want to stay next.
Equality Weekender
Essay
Real Stories of Women Who Changed Their Towns
Ordinary women, plain actions, and the local changes that followed — how to read these stories, and what they share.
Society
Religious Accommodation at Work: What Employers Must Provide
Federal law requires employers to adjust schedules, dress codes, and workplaces for religious practice — unless it costs them more than a little.
Why Gender Equality Still Isn't a Finished Story
The laws changed. The habits didn't. A look at where the gaps live now — at work, at home, and in between.
Hilton Picks Kyoto for Its First Motto in Japan — and That Choice Says a Lot
A 108-room hotel opening in 2029 is a small number with a big story behind it: where one global brand thinks travelers want to stay next.
Community News
Pride Budgets Shrink in Some Cities While Community Funders Step In
Corporate sponsorship pullbacks after 2023-2025 have forced several Pride organizations to rebuild budgets from community donations and grants.
Landscape Architects Just Got a Business School — and a Peer Circle
The first ASLA SKILL | ED Firm Leadership Accelerator ended in Los Angeles. What an inaugural cohort of firm leaders says about how design careers actually move forward.
Equality
How Workplace Accommodations Actually Work Under the ADA
The accommodation process is a conversation the law requires both sides to join — and it starts with a request an employee does not have to put in perfect legal words.
Real Stories of Women Who Changed Their Towns
Ordinary women, plain actions, and the local changes that followed — how to read these stories, and what they share.
Community News
The Land Trust Model Keeping Neighborhoods From Being Priced Out
A nonprofit owns the land forever, a family owns the house — and the price stays capped for the next buyer, too.
Astrology for Beginners: Where to Start Without the Jargon
Three placements, one birthday, and no gatekeeping — a gentle way into the chart.
Equality
How a Workplace Discrimination Charge Moves Through the EEOC
From the 180-day deadline to the 90-day countdown after a right-to-sue letter, here is what actually happens once a charge is filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Stories We Tell About Our Brothers and Sisters
Why the first characters we ever meet — the ones sharing a bedroom and the back seat — become the stories we write down.
Community News
Back-to-School Drives 2026 Gear Up From Denver to Louisville
Operation Backpack returns nationwide, Denver's Back to School Bash runs through August, and Twin Cities volunteers are packing supply kits through mid-August.
Astrology
What Mercury Retrograde Actually Looks Like From Space
Astrology says the planet turns hostile three or four times a year. The sky says something much stranger, and much easier to explain.