Thursday, May 23, 2024

The war on women: The view from China

Today, however, rather than seeing women as a key driver of economic advancement, China’s leaders have been cracking down on the feminist movement. Leta Hong Fincher, a scholar on women in China, explains why.

Trump administration’s attacks on science already surpass two Bush terms

Trump may have lauded the Apollo 11 mission, but his administration has launched more than 100 attacks on science.

Gimme shelter too!!

The real crime is that the rents are much higher than if the renter was able to afford a down payment and pay a lower price for a mortgage on the same property!
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‘Democracy for sale’: Cambridge Analytica & big tech’s history of manipulating elections

“So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes.”

How CEOs behave like closet socialists

To deal with the many challenges we face today, the democratic principle must be extended from the political realm to the economic.

Honoring two men just brought down by the coronavirus pandemic

John Prine and Bernie Sanders have left a legacy, the importance of which cannot be ignored.

Tesla delivers record number vehicles amid pandemic doubling third-quarter profits

Third quarter net profit was at $331 million making Tesla on course to turn an annual profit for the first time ever.

How this country fails its most vulnerable

A field guide to our threadbare social safety net...

The land of the free, where so many of the brave are homeless

Resisting evictions amid a pandemic...

Human prehistory—why new discoveries about human origins open up revolutionary possibilities

It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.