Thanksgiving

’Tis the season to be exploited: retail workers face busy, stressful holidays

From Thanksgiving through Christmas workplace pressures mount for those charged with servicing the festival of consumerism

Michael Sainato

25, Nov, 2022 @8:00 AM

Food, transportation, heating: inflation takes a bite out of Thanksgiving

Everything involved in celebrating this American holiday has gotten more expensive, except for one Thanksgiving staple

Gloria Oladipo in New York

24, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

‘He kind of amps them up’: ‘Kevin’ the ringleader as turkeys terrorize Massachusetts town

Residents of Woburn near Boston subjected to attacks and intimidation by group of wild turkeys – and especially Kevin

Adam Gabbatt

24, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

US turkey shortages and rising prices add extra stress to Thanksgiving

Inflation and a long outbreak of avian flu before the holidays mean higher prices and smaller birds – or none at all

Gloria Oladipo in New York

23, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

‘Traditions can change’: is it time to get rid of the Thanksgiving turkey?

Turkey shortages and inflation may make this the year to alter the holiday dinner, which was an unheard-of celebration until after the civil war

Aimee Levitt

22, Nov, 2022 @6:00 AM

Still alive: American democracy, Biden’s bad jokes – and two turkeys

High on the Democrats’ midterm success, the octogenarian president presides over the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys

David Smith in Washington

21, Nov, 2022 @9:15 PM

Thanksgiving weekend travel poised to approach pre-Covid levels

Industry expects 53.4 million people to travel over long weekend, versus 47.1 million last year

Victoria Bekiempis in New York

26, Nov, 2021 @4:33 PM

‘We pray for them’: Biden pays tribute to Covid victims in Thanksgiving message

President wishes Americans a closer-to-normal holiday amid rise in coronavirus infections

Edward Helmore in New York and agency

25, Nov, 2021 @8:45 PM

No more pandemic excuses – this Thanksgiving we are going to a party | Emma Brockes

Covid is finally starting to recede into the background to join all the other risks we accept as part of living, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes

25, Nov, 2021 @4:47 PM

Lara Trump claims pricier turkeys are a liberal plot against Thanksgiving

Ex-presidents daughter-in-law tells Fox News leftwing Americans ‘don’t want us to have any shared traditions’ and turkey prices were means that end

Edward Helmore

25, Nov, 2021 @2:11 PM

Holiday dread: at gatherings this year, ‘someone is going to be offended’

Some are actively dreading what is supposed to be the jolliest time of the year as some families are under the same roof for the first time in two years

Allie Volpe

25, Nov, 2021 @8:00 AM

Holiday shopping ‘hell’: workers brace for unruly customers and labor strikes

Holiday retail sales are expected to increase up to a record 10.5%, despite supply chain issues and employee shortages