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Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.

Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?

The inflation spike of 2021 and 2022 has presented real policy challenges. In order to better understand this policy debate, it is imperative to look at prices and how they are being affected. The price of just about everything in the U.S. economy can be broken down into the three main components of cost. These…

The money and methods behind the massive and well-funded movement

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

The amount of media being wiped from the internet is worrying for viewers, and industry workers who need the exposure, says journalist and critic Zach Schonfeld

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Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? The answer is complicated, which you might expect -- but it has nothing to do with tallying up all the numbers. Rather, it’s more about what parameters are used.

American politics now revolves around complete nonsense.

Today on TAP: Will Mayor Eric Adams be forced to resign? Will Andrew Cuomo succeed him? Does a progressive mayoral candidate have a shot?

How a near-monopoly gained control of most of the nation’s electronic medical records, to the detriment of medical practice and doctor morale

How a tech and finance boom turned the city into one of the nation’s biggest back-to-office experiments.

Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.

Carter's post-presidency has been transformative. And while he's well-known for his contributions to democracy, he deserves immense credit for his incredible successes with global public health.

The remote work experiment proved we don’t need to be in an office to succeed—so why are we still being dragged back to our desks? Remember when COVID-19 was supposed to revolutionize work? Millions of us were suddenly Zooming from makeshift home offices, fumbling through virtual “watercooler” moments.

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We need a consumer economy centered around "libraries of things" so we can do more with less.

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.

We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.

Residents leave a town because of a lack of services, which cuts the tax base, which leads to more services lost, which leads to more residents leaving… A hip new brand attracts a few opinion…

No, but it does tell us a lot about immigration to the US, and about the challenges of measuring it.

The CRA has introduced a novel, and potentially quite worrying, approach to cybersecurity legislation.

The Russian empire is made up of many nations, forced under authoritarianism to exist under a single state. Some Ukrainians believe Ukraine won't be safe until Russia's empire is broken apart.

It’s hurricane season, but the government is placing ‘trade secrets’ above public safety

I dissect how neoclassical economics treats (neglects) natural resources, and discuss ways to fix it.

Each state has a unique constitution, separate and apart from the U.S. Constitution and from all other states. Many states confer more rights to their citizens than the federal government does, and the protections and structure within each state constitution are distinctive. This tool shows how different state constitutions compare to one another and the […]