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/ 2 years agoHow corporations use greenwashing to convince you they are battling climate change
Look for hidden trade-offs, political contributions and what businesses are not telling you.
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/ 2 years agoCo-workers could bear costs of accommodating religious employees in the workplace if Supreme Court tosses out 46-year-old precedent
The Supreme Court appears poised to change the definition of ‘undue hardship’ so that employers have to accommodate more of workers’...
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/ 2 years agoWhy so many South Korean women are refusing to date, marry or have kids
The South Korean government’s embrace of gendered citizenship has fueled the virulent gender war between men and women, with digital sex...
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/ 2 years agoI’m an educator and grandson of Holocaust survivors, and I see public schools failing to give students the historical knowledge they need to keep our democracy strong
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history...
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/ 2 years agoWhat’s a Luddite? An expert on technology and society explains
Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer and more...
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/ 2 years agoBiden’s strategy for cutting carbon emissions from electricity generation could extend the lives of fossil fuel power plants
After the Supreme Court overturned the Obama administration’s strategy for reducing power plant carbon emissions in 2022, the Biden administration is...
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/ 2 years agoAn obscure 1800s law is shaping up to be the center of the next abortion battle – legal scholars explain what’s behind the Victorian-era statute
The 1873 Comstock Act makes it a crime to mail abortion drugs or medicine – raising legal questions about the law’s...
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/ 2 years agoA brief history of debt ceiling crises and the political chaos they’ve unleashed
There are political as well as economic risks to debt standoffs in Congress.
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/ 2 years agoMeditative mothering? How Buddhism honors both compassionate caregiving and celibate monks and nuns
The lines between family life and Buddhist monasticism are not so ‘either/or’ as they might seem.
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/ 2 years agoLessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is set 400 years in the future, but, like most science fiction, it deals with issues in the...
