Biden to direct $2.5 billion in funds to address mental health and addiction crisis
President Biden is directing $2.5 billion in funding to address the nation’s worsening mental illness and addiction crisis, an official…
Overtime targets NCAA with new league offering $100,000 salary to high school players
With the NCAA model under attack, sports media company Overtime is launching its own basketball league and offering high school…
House passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief package
The House approved President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package on a 219-212 vote early Saturday morning, sending it to…
The Economics of Hollywood
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Ivanka Trump focuses on criminal justice reform as part of reemergence plan
Ivanka Trump used her status to help obtain over 140 pardons and commutations for victims of injustice as well as…
Obscure corporate donors flooded key 2020 Senate races
Significant chunks of money spent in key 2020 Senate races — including Kelly Loeffler’s in Georgia — came from nonprofits…
Social influencers: new advertising code addresses hyper-sexualisation, but not where it’s needed most
You may have had heard of Vanessa Sierra, the Instagram model and reality TV contestant who adeptly used her time…
The Guerrilla Girls Canceled Their Book Contract With Phaidon Over Billionaire Owner Leon Black’s ‘Shady Dealings’ With Jeffrey Epstein
The Guerrilla Girls are once again calling on New York’s Museum of Modern Art to remove chairman Leon Black from its board due to…
The Reserve Bank could still go negative
Few people expected the Reserve Bank to adjust its cash rate at its first meeting of the year today, and…
GOP ignored its early fears about Marjorie Taylor Greene
During previously unreported meetings last summer, House Republican leaders discussed — but then largely set aside — fears that QAnon-supporting…
Telework’s tax mess: A permanent side effect of the pandemic
As teleworkers flit from city to city, they’re creating a huge tax mess. Why it matters: Our tax laws aren’t…
The cloudy science on school reopening during the pandemic
President Biden’s plan to accelerate the reopening of K-8 schools faces major challenges from a still out-of-control pandemic and more…
An Unopened First Edition Set of Pokémon Cards, Deemed ‘the Pinnacle of Pokémon Collecting,’ Just Fetched $408,000 at Auction
Did your mother make you throw out your old Pokémon cards? Now you have an opportunity to show her that…
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Is Considering Changing Its Name After a Local Newspaper Surfaced Its Founder’s Racist Legacy
Prompted by a report in the local newspaper about the segregationist activities of William Rockhill Nelson, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in…
Archaeologists Are Caught Up in an Intense Fight Over Just How Important the Mysterious Nebra Sky Disk Really Is
It’s an enchanting object, made of copper and bronze, an ancient view of the cosmos—but how ancient, exactly, is what’s…
The economy can’t guarantee a job. It can guarantee a liveable income for other work
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Australia in March 2020, the Morrison government took bold and imaginative action. The most notable…
Trump Supporters’ Main Problem Was Never The Economy
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty ImagesSupporters of President Donald Trump rampage through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress met…
Millions won’t get stimulus money before the IRS cut-off date
A chunk of stimulus payments are missing in action, thanks to a mix up that put as many as 13…