Starbucks has announced that it will ban plastic straws from its stores globally by 2020, becoming the latest business to jump on the Say No To Plastic Straws bandwagon.

On April 12, two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on suspicion of trespassing after they’d been waiting a few minutes for a friend. A video of the racist altercation quickly went viral.

This week, everyone was mad at Starbucks after two black men were arrested on suspicion of trespassing at a Philadelphia location in what was clearly an action motivated by racism and nothing else.

Nature is one of the few remaining places where a person can escape to empty their minds of the criminal injustice plaguing nearly every corner of the world today. A tree has never sexually harassed anyone; that rock over there never exploited its employees, and I don’t know of a single insect to have subjugated a…

There is a time and a place for everything in this world, except for three things: 1) Santacon, 2) the GOP, and 3) limited-time-only Starbucks drinks, such as Starbuck’s Christmas Tree Frappuccino® Blended Crème, a semi-liquid brown and off-green flavor sculpture available only at participating Starbucks locations.

Some Trump supporters had an idea for a boycott that is actually the opposite of a boycott. It goes like this: instead of keeping your money inside of your pocket, you give it to the business you wish to protest. In this case, the lucky corporation is Starbucks.

In this time of national strife, Starbucks would like to channel the anodyne vibes of the mid 1960s Youngbloods anthem, “Get Together,” with a limited-edition green cup meant to remind us we’re all connected and encourage unity.

As I step out of the train station in Manhattan’s Union Square, I’m surprised by how much warmer it’s become since my commute from Brooklyn. Would this unexpected heat in any way mar my experience of autumn’s most famous coffee beverage? Would this endeavor have to wait another day? I notice that someone near me is…

A disgruntled Starbucks customer is suing the popular coffee chain, claiming its iced drinks are insufficient and falsely advertised.

I am here to inform you all that the festering tourist trap featured in your Manhattan-related dystopian nightmares is now going to be a thing, because the largest Starbucks in the world is officially opening in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Some Starbucks’ customers are outraged over the coffee chain’s new holiday cups, just because they lack a Christmas-themed design. In the past, the company released cups depicting images of snowflakes, reindeer, white doves and ornaments. This year, the cups are plain red — and people are really pissed.

For those of you who look forward to fall and its changing colors of leaves, the faint smell of wood smoke in the air and most importantly, that cozy, cardboard cup of Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte, here’s some pearl-clutching news. The coffeehouse chain has announced that they will be changing the ingredients in its…

Starbucks has revealed its new lineup of “wait, what?” Frappuccino flavors, which seriously include Cotton Candy and Cupcake. Should you try ’em?

On Friday, Chipotle announced they’d soon be offering sick days, paid vacation, and tuition reimbursement for all employees—not just salaried workers.