Comment on this story Comment One of the more noxious tropes to emerge from our hyper-polarized politics is the idea that those on the other side of the political spectrum are necessarily less-informed than we are. Stupider. This takes lots of forms. Some are pseudo-objective assessments of polls or other […]
Year: 2023
This weekly round-up brings you the latest stories from the world of economics and finance. Top economy stories: US raises interest rates by 0.25 percentage points; UBS takes over Credit Suisse; IMF board approves Sri Lanka bailout. 1. US raises interest rates again as it weighs up banking crisis The […]
U.S. stocks reversed losses in late afternoon trading on Friday as markets cap off a bumpy week following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision on Wednesday and further pressure in the banking sector. The S&P 500 (^GSPC), which fell as much as 1{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f} in early Friday trading, the most in […]
(RNS) — For the most part, religious Americans say their LGBTQ neighbors should be free of discrimination when they are at work, in public or at home. This is true even among groups that oppose same-sex marriage. One place they disagree is over whether businesses — such as cake bakers […]
Tiny particles of plastic have been found everywhere — from the deepest place on the planet, the Mariana Trench, to the top of Mount Everest. And now more and more studies are finding that microplastics, defined as plastic pieces less than 5 millimeters across, are also in our bodies. “What […]
President Biden’s secretary of education released a letter calling for the end of all corporal punishment in U.S. schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent the “dear colleague” letter to governors, chief state school officers and other school leaders nationwide on Friday calling for the end of all corporal […]