Dolly Parton’s Outlaw Christianity

Dolly Parton grew up steeped in Scripture and hymns, and a congregation was her first audience; her faith and her talent were forever inseparable. But by the time she could afford to buy anything like Sunday best, she was not much to be found in her grandfather’s church or any other. A curious thing about…

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De Minimis Exemption Is Gone and a New Fee Is Coming

If you import inventory in small batches, the rule that made that work is gone, and a guide updated on August 17, 2026 lays out where things now stand. The de minimis exemption, which let shipments worth $800 or less enter the United States duty-free, ended for China and Hong Kong on May 2, 2025…

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RFK Jr. Insists Measles Is Under Control as Two People Die

According to CDC data, vaccination coverage for U.S. kindergartners fell by nearly three percentage points—from 95.2 percent to 92.4 percent—between the 2019–2020 school year and the 2025–2026 school year. The dip is more significant than it seems at face value: The lowered figures place the age groups below the threshold for herd immunity (95 percent),…

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DHL Express India kicks off indexed levy to offset rupee volatility

The company also plans to uphold its €1 billion investment in India, despite currency volatility — a matter of concern in economies such as South Korea and Japan, R S Subramanian, senior vice-president–South Asia, DHL Express, and managing director, DHL Express India, told Business Standard. Also, to partly offset the impact of currency volatility, DHL…

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Dolly Parton for the People

Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his young wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl named Dolly Parton. If you know the rest of this story, you know that it never gets old. Her parents, Avie Lee and Robert Lee Parton,…

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How Small-Town Retail Is Redefining Shopping in America

Kingston, N.Y., is a town of 25,000 people, and it doesn’t look like the future of retail at first glance. Its mall, once a bustling hub, now has just a handful of tenants and mostly empty storefronts. But walk along the uptown section, and you’ll find something unexpected—life. Boutiques with handpicked apparel, gift shops brimming…

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