Powell tells Congress the Fed is ‘strongly committed’ on inflation, notes recession is a ‘possibility’
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told congressional lawmakers Wednesday that the central bank is determined to bring down inflation and…
New York’s Last Payphone Kiosk, Removed from Midtown Last Month, Has Officially Become a Museum Artifact
Last month, New York City removed its last payphone kiosk, a relic of an analog age that in 2022 is…
Look for more selling pressure next week as investors learn the hard way not to fight the Fed
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell adjusts his tie as he arrives to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban…
Art Speigelman Denounces Tennessee School District’s Ban of His Graphic Novel ‘Maus’: ‘It Has a Breath of Autocracy and Fascism’
A Tennessee school board has voted to ban Art Spiegelman’s landmark graphic novel Maus due to profanity and nudity. The book tells the…
5 Data Breach Trends to Anticipate This Year
In its recent annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, credit reporting agency Experian made five predictions for cybercrime and data breach…
Before the Smoke Cleared From the Capitol Riots, Curators Were Out Looking for Artifacts. What Should They Do With Them Now?
A year ago, before the smoke had fully cleared after a group of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building, curators and…
A Ragtag Band of Crypto Populists Tried and Failed to Buy the U.S. Constitution in an Epic $43.2 Million Auction Showdown
One of only two privately owned first printings of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday evening for…
After a Long Political Battle, a Statue of Thomas Jefferson Housed at New York’s City Hall Will Move to a History Museum
A controversial sculpture of Thomas Jefferson is moving from the New York City Council Chamber to a new home at…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Licensing Lessons for Artists to the Return of Immersive Van Gogh
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person, in the…
This Year’s Nobel Prize Is Going To Change Everything…
This year’s Nobel Prize is going to change everything you thought you knew about economics… Get between $3 and $100…
A Texas Marketing Company Is Opening a Juneteenth Museum, Promising an Interactive History of the New National Holiday
A National Juneteeth Museum is opening in Fort Worth, Texas, on the site of an existing institution that commemorates the…
A New Polish Law Will Make It Practically Impossible to Pursue Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Artworks
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a controversial law reducing the statute of limitations on all challenges to allegedly stolen property, making Nazi-looted art…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish state
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
As Part of a $4.5 Billion Oxycontin Settlement, the Sackler Family Has Promised Not to Lend Its Name to Museums for Nine Years
The highly contested Purdue Pharma settlement over the prescription painkiller OxyContin is one step closer to being finalized, as 15…
A Napa Wine Family Has Given the Smithsonian’s American History Museum a $4 Million Gift to Hire a Food and Drink Curator
The wine-making Winiarski family, who founded Napa Valley’s Stag Leap Wine Cellars, just gave the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History $4…
An Investigation Into Uighur Detention Camps Funded by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center Has Won a Pulitzer Prize
A project funded in part by Brooklyn’s Eyebeam Art and Technology Center has won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. “Built to…
DOJ subpoenaed Apple data on 73 phone numbers, 36 email addresses in leak probe
The Justice Department requested metadata on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses in a subpoena to Apple as part…