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Why nobody can rein in the increasingly erratic patriarch of the Fox Corporation.

A half century after the induction of the last draftee, America’s military faces tough choices.

An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it's AI projects. If Google can read your words, assume they belong to the company now, and expect that they’re nesting somewhere in the bowels of a chatbot.

It feels like we have no choice but to keep grinding – but the anti-work movement looks heroic in the face of burnout and climate catastrophe, writes Emma Beddington

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be explained by bad choices among the poor nor by good decisions among the rich. Poor decisions were the same across all income groups, including for people who have overcome poverty.

Today the Supreme Court followed up on yesterday’s decision gutting affirmative action with three decisions that will continue to push the United States back to the era before the New Deal. In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis the court said that the First Amendment protects website designer Lorie Smith from having to use words she doesn’t believe in support of gay marriage. To get there, the court focused on the marriage website designer’s contention that while she is willing to work with LGBTQ customers, she doesn’t want to use her own words on a personalized website to celebrate gay marriages. Because of that unwillingness, she said, she wants to post on her website that she will not make websites for same-sex weddings. She says she is afraid that in doing so, she will run afoul of Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws, which prevent public businesses from discriminating against certain groups of people.

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America's fantastic endowment and entrepreneurial spirit maintain its global preeminence.

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Photographs have always been an imperfect reproduction of real life — see the story of Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother or

Shows that are being taken off the service include 'Becca’s Bunch,' 'Pig Goat Banana Cricket,' and 'Star Trek: Prodigy.'

The Whiskered Odyssey of Body Hair and Hairless Bodies - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

University students in Australia are sharing beds with strangers because they cannot afford to rent a room of their own due to sky-high rental prices.

Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by “superstar” products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result, aggregate spending concentration has decreased. We develop a model of heterogeneous household demand and use […]

The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.

Scientists have long held that early human men did the hunting and women the gathering. A new review of data on foraging societies in modern times suggests that most women hunted.

There’s more to the housing affordability crisis than Airbnb.

Mark Roy Anderson used charm and cunning to hoodwink music producer Birdman Williams and many others. And he’s back in trouble again.

They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig

That includes heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction stoves, electric vehicles, and rooftop solar systems.

A 46-year-old deputy mayor of Helsinki was caught illegally spray-painting graffiti in a train tunnel last weekend and is being called to pay for the damages and resign. And although illegal, his a…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a decision that struck fear in the hearts of every corporate lawyer in the land.

Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students for Fair Admissions is an organization designed to fight against affirmative action in college admissions, and today it achieved its goal: the Supreme Court decided that policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that consider race as a factor in admissions are unconstitutional because they violate the guarantee of equal protection before the law, established by the Fourteenth Amendment.

From Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, a piece on the still-radical teachings of Fred Rogers, who emphasized the “love thy neighbor

In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead.

Companies knew the mandated return to the office would cause some attrition, however, they were not prepared for the serious problems that would present.

Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023.