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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court sides with Starbucks in labor case that could hinder government’s ability to intervene in some unionization disputes
It’s not certain that the ruling will make it harder for fired union organizers to get their jobs back, a labor...
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/ 8 months agoAn homage to the dad joke, one of the great traditions of fatherhood
Cringe, corny and awkward − what’s not to love?
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/ 8 months agoThe US is losing wetlands at an accelerating rate − here’s how the private sector can help protect these valuable resources
The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. 2 environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations...
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/ 8 months agoSpace weather forecasting needs an upgrade to protect future Artemis astronauts
The Sun will be at its most explosive right around the time NASA plans to put people back on the Moon.
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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court justices secretly recorded – the legal issues and what they mean for the rest of us
Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse...
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/ 8 months agoPeople ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions
The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme...
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/ 8 months agoUkraine’s draft woes leave the West facing pressure to make up for the troop shortfall
Recruiters are struggling to find enough men to counter a Russian invasion that has gained momentum in recent months.
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/ 8 months agoPhiladelphia’s 200-year-old disability records show welfare reform movement’s early shift toward rationing care and punishing poor people
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from...
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/ 8 months agoCivil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power of love’ to challenge injustice
Lawson learned in India how to resist racism and subsequently trained his students on the systematic use of nonviolence to fight...
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/ 8 months agoSpikes, seat dividers, even ‘Baby Shark’ − camping bans like the one under review at SCOTUS are part of broader strategies that push out homeless people
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
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/ 8 months agoCities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning
Turning excess office space into apartments isn’t a panacea for the housing shortage, but it’s producing thousands of new units yearly...
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/ 8 months agoInflation is cooling, but not fast enough for the Fed: Policymakers now expect only one rate cut in 2024
The Federal Reserve is being characteristically cautious.
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/ 8 months agoMicrorobots made of algae carry chemo directly to lung tumors, improving cancer treatment
Green algae carry drug-loaded nanoparticles directly to the lungs, reducing side effects in other organs and increasing treatment efficiency.
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/ 8 months agoColumbia Law Review article critical of Israel sparks battle between student editors and their board − highlighting fragility of academic freedom
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
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/ 8 months agoThere’s a strange history of white journalists trying to better understand the Black experience by ‘becoming’ Black
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
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/ 8 months agoAmerican womanhood is not what it used to be − understanding the backlash to Dobbs v. Jackson
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the...
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/ 8 months agoPolitics is still both local and personal – but only for independents, not for Democrats or Republicans
Independents’ political views and policy preferences reflect the economic and social conditions they see and experience every day. Democrats and Republicans...
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/ 8 months ago‘Fiddler on the Roof’ may be many Americans’ image of Judaism – but American Jews’ heritage is stunningly diverse
Most ideas about Jewish culture in the United States come from Ashkenazi traditions, but there’s a vast landscape of Jewish cultures...
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/ 8 months agoParis 2024 Olympics to debut high-level breakdancing – and physics in action
Olympic breakdancers spin on their heads and backs, then freeze in funky poses. How? It’s all about physics.
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/ 8 months agoWastewater surveillance reveals pathogens in Detroit’s population, helping monitor and predict disease outbreaks since 2017
Detecting infectious agents in sewage is only the first step. Researchers are working on developing reliable ways to translate surveillance measurements...
