Society

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.

This report describes perception of local COVID-19 transmission ..

Let’s start off with this point, which some seem to ignore when I talk about this stuff: I think many of the “concerns” about disinformation are totally overblown. People act as if disinformation h…

Understanding how to differentiate between nominal wage and real wage can help you make important decisions regarding your job search.

Gross Domestic Income Quarterly - Change From Preceding Period

Average weekly earnings are $23.24 today, the same as in 1973 when adjusted for inflation.

Jessica Wildfire published a post on Ko-fi

Philadelphia set the stage for prison reform not only in Pennsylvania, but also the world over

Fernando Pessoa The Anarchist Banker 1922

A couple of weeks ago, Disney opened an old wound in the comic book community by releasing their new Stan Lee documentary. On the surface, a documentary about one of the most charismatic figur…

In 1990, the US government sent $20,000 and a formal letter of apology to more than 82,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerate

If we as a nation are going to directly address an “underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and societal health,” we must not only acknowledge the power of social infrastructure but also encourage public and private development projects to build and enhance environments that promote connection and further support and invest in institutions that bring people and communities together.

Today on TAP: France could be the next country to elect a far-right president.

Freight rail unions have gradually achieved their key demand from the labor dispute last year.

The authors reject the Cost-of-Thriving Index approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards.

How easy is it for a male breadwinner to raise a family? Oren Cass argues that the cost of “thriving,” is increasing. That’s false. When you do the numbers correctly, Winship and Horpedahl show that the cost of thriving is falling. It’s falling more slowly than we would like–but it’s still the case that current […]

By increasing efficiency, reducing errors and cutting costs, automation not only makes remote work possible but also profitable.

His legacy matters enormously for how we consider the future of the Constitution.

Don’t blame partisan judges. The real problem is ‘movement’ judges.