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A worker dressed in white protective gear disinfects as a precaution against the coronavirus at a café in Goyang, South Korea, Aug. 25, 2020.  

To quell COVID-19 outbreak, South Korea bans seating at big cafés

Cafés in downtown Seoul are nearly empty during lunch hour as businesses typically filled with office workers dropping in for a cup of their favorite brew go takeout-only because of the pandemic.

Protesters with signs stand in front of a Starbucks storefront.

Low coffee prices are starving farmers. Can a cartel fix it?

Paper coffee cups have a thin layer of plastic on the inside to prevent leaking. It’s a well-engineered vessel, but difficult to recycle.

Starbucks tries to save 6 billion cups a year from the trash … with help from McDonald’s

Environment
Starbucks announced plans to phase out single-use plastic straws by the year 2020. The company says it will eliminate the need for 1 billion straws annually.

Will dumping plastic straws lead to more environmental progress, or complacency?

A woman walks through Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, clutching a hot Starbucks beverage

8,000 Starbucks stores will close this afternoon for bias training

Customers queue for coffee outside South Africa's first Starbucks outlet in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The first sub-Saharan Starbucks opens with an invite-only launch party

Economics

Tastes like middle-class consumerism.

The triptych San Zeno Altarpiece, painted by Venetian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. It is in the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona.

Can Italy build another Renaissance?

Technology

What would it take to create an environment for new da Vincis, Galileos, Michelangelos and Machiavellis to thrive in modern-day Italy? Can it be done?

This is Sahu Cinema Hall, in the center of my hometown, Lucknow, India. I watched hundreds of movies there when I was kid, and it brings back lots of memories for me.

When I try to belong in America, I long for India — and vice versa

Culture

What happens when you travel back and forth between your home country and your adopted one? For Indian-American writer Deepak Singh, it means constant cultural re-adjustment.

I never expected sticker shock in New Delhi

Lifestyle & Belief

On a recent trip home, Deepak Singh realized that things — and prices — in India and the United States might be more equal than he expected.

Bishwanath Ghosh has been perfecting his pour at Kolkata's Ghosh Cabin for over 40 years.

If you’ve never seen a tea wallah, here are photos fresh from India

Arts, Culture & Media

While on a Fulbright scholarship two years ago, Resham Gellatly and Zach Marks met and decided to go on a journey, documenting the tea, or chai, wallahs of India.