The tech industry has a new trend: adopting “transparency labels” modeled after the iconic Nutrition Facts panel found on food packaging. In 2020, Apple introduced “Privacy Labels” aimed at disclosing how apps handle user data....
For months, pundits have been furiously debating why positive trends in economic indicators (jobs, GDP, inflation) are not reflected in surveys of consumer sentiment or President Biden’s approval ratings. Some commentators have chalked...
In January 2024, the American Museum of Natural History in New York closed its Hall of the Great Plains and Hall of Eastern Woodlands, and visitors to the Field Museum in Chicago and other museums across the country are seeing covered...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is a fan of a little-known late 19th century Mexican border revolutionary named Catarino Erasmo Garza. AMLO is so enamored of the border rebel and journalist, he even wrote a book...
The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the American Revolution — indicates that...
U.S. and Texas officials are at war over immigration and border control. The latest chapter came on March 27, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked a Texas law from going into effect, pending hearings on its...
The results of the recent primaries confirmed what Americans long expected (and many dreaded): the 2024 presidential election will feature a second contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The rematch between current and former...
Although inflation is declining, prices are still higher than they were a few years ago, which means that the issue is likely to be significant in the 2024 presidential campaign. President Biden’s consistently low poll numbers, in...
Whiter, less affluent communities in the industrial heartland of America — where residents are less likely to have a college degree — remain loyal to Donald Trump, seven years after they first helped deliver him the presidency....
On Feb. 19, Wisconsin governor Tony Evers signed new state legislative maps into law, ending a decade-long political and judicial dogfight that culminated in the state supreme court ruling that Wisconsin’s maps violated the state...
Earlier this month, Florida settled a lawsuit filed by several LGBTQ rights groups against the law popularly known as “Don’t Say Gay.” The settlement clarifies that the law does not fully prohibit students and teachers from discussing...
Donald Trump has been in full Messiah-mode lately, telling his followers that he’s suffering for their sake, sharing a faux courtroom sketch of Christ at his side, and circulating actor Jon Voight’s bizarre claim that...
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars. In some...
GOP resistance to funding Ukraine’s war effort, along with the refusal by several Republicans to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been a clear sign that this is no longer...
Over the past few years, libraries and archives across the world have worked to digitize their resources. The United States, United Kingdom, and India, for instance, have all invested in expanding digital collections for their records....
The U.S. has a housing crisis — one only growing more serious with each day. In the District of Columbia, a recent report by the Urban Institute found that 12% of the city’s population of more than 82,000 residents does not have...
It is an unlikely success story. A first century religious leader named Jesus was brutally executed as a criminal in first century Jerusalem. His death should have ended the movement. He left behind him a ragtag group of poorly educated...
Special prosecutors’ investigations of Joe Biden and Donald Trump do not mark the first time political tensions spilled into the justice system.On Jan. 10, 49 B.C., Julius Caesar marched across the Rubicon river into Italy, launching...
In the coming months, the United States Department of Health and Human Services plans to implement a newly proposed rule that would ensure proper allocation of federal welfare funds at the state level. As an ongoing civil lawsuit in...
When a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit hears arguments on Wednesday on whether to block a Texas law that allows police officers to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, it will be just the latest chapter...
On March 20, 1924, the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the nation’s cruelest, most draconian, segregation law. Designed to preserve white racial “purity,” the legislation became a model for states across the Jim Crow South and...
