• Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?

    Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and 70% of leftists, independents and conservatives alike rate affordability as one of their top three concerns. In other words, Americans...

  • Americans check their phones 144 times a day: How you can break bad digital habits

    Americans check their phones -- 144 times a day (Second column, 5th story, link) Related stories:Streaming now accounts for 38.5% of TV consumption!

  • Quercetin Delays Ovarian Aging in Middle-Aged Mice

    A recent paper published in Nature Aging dives into the gene expression differences between young, middle-aged, and older human ovaries and tests possible interventions to slow down their aging processes [1]. An underexplored area of human aging Female reproductive aging

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    Mandisa: American Idol singer dies aged 47

    Tributes are being paid to the gospel singer who won a Grammy in 2014 for

  • What the US can learn from Brussels’s NatCon shutdown

    Is free speech dead in Europe? Just this week in Belgium, police stormed a gathering of conservatives, attempting to overtake the event on the grounds of “public safety” and stopping “a public disturbance.” The National Conservatism Conference, or “NatCon,” planned to host a conference for European conservative thought leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor […]

  • Disrupting the System: Can Microschools Fix American Education?

    The concept of microschools is where students of various ages learn together in a single, often rural, classroom.

  • Eve of destruction. Can war in the Middle East be avoided?

    As Iran retaliates, Israel contemplates its response. Cool heads and calm reflection are needed as the Middle East spirals towards full-scale war.

  • Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism

    No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone...

  • Kid Wins European Seagull Screeching Contest With A Performance For The Ages

    The folks of England can carry their heads just a bit higher this year because they’ve just taken home one of the most prestigious titles in Europe. And no, I’m not talking about the Eurovision Song Contest Finals which are coming up in two weeks because the UK is going to get demolished. I’m referring […]

  • Trussonomic lessons: what can be learned from former PM’s book?

    The anti-growth coalition, Bank of England and the OBR are among those under fire from Liz TrussRaw free-market economics is missing in action. Somewhere between its 1980s ascendancy and today, the media, politicians, civil service and even the corporate mainstream abandoned small government and low taxes.At the heart of Liz Truss’s new book, Ten Years to Save the West, the former prime minister reckons this is the reason for Britain’s economic drift, alongside “unelected technocrats” overruling...

  • How newsroom leaders can learn to navigate challenges inherent to their jobs

    A Poynter/CPB fellowship program is helping reset expectations of what it takes to manage a newsroom.

  • As a Palestinian American, I can’t vote for Joe Biden any more. And I am not alone

    The president’s moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam before himAmerica is big, diverse and polarized. Yet, when it comes to the war in Gaza, opinions here are converging. A Gallup poll in March found 55% of respondents “disapprove of Israel’s actions”, up from 45% in November. Among registered Democrats, the figure is 75%. As the number of citizens voting “uncommitted” in Democratic primaries makes plain, President Biden’s unqualified support...