The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does. Just eight years after Russia’s incursion...
“This money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, not to the United States,” said an Afghan protest organizer in Kabul over the weekend. With the people...
“Climate change is here and now,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. “If a 1,200 year mega-drought isn’t enough to make people realize that, I don’t know what...
Without more regulation, this will continue,” said one critic. “We need governments and regulatory bodies to step up and put an end to this greenwashing trend.”...
“A large across-the-board increase in interest rates is a cure worse than the disease,” says economist Joseph Stiglitz. “That might dampen inflation if it is taken...
A browser extension that reveals Amazon brand and exclusive products while you shop on the site Amazon has registered more than 150 private-label brands with the...
Cryptocurrency is becoming a more familiar way to pay for things. One option is as part of a crowd, through a decentralized autonomous organization. In this...
Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to the cryptocurrency as a religion Bloomberg’s Lorcan Roche Kelly called Bitcoin “the first...
The 2022 Winter Games in Beijing provide many benefits for China, and really don’t have any downsides for the country. For China’s leader, Xi Jinping, the...
The blizzard that buried Boston under nearly 2 feet of snow in January 2022 was historic, but not a surprise. Over a century of reliable weather...
Los Angeles had oil wells pumping in its neighborhoods when Hollywood was in its infancy, and thousands of active wells still dot the city. These wells...
The wealth-hoarding by ultrarich families would be equivalent to over four Build Back Better plans Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying...
One critic said the company’s explanation for the coming price hikes amounts to “word salad to hide corporate greed.”‘ Starbucks on Tuesday reported a 31% increase in...
Data-driven personalized ads are the lifeblood of the internet. To a growing number of lawmakers, they’re also nefarious Earlier this month, the European Union Parliament passed...
A 2020 Markup investigation found the company pursuing similar goals in other states A pair of newly public documents filed with a California administrative law judge...
A new legal filing by New York’s attorney general this week accused former President Donald Trump’s company of misleading lenders about the financial health of its...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Jan. 19, 2022, that he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine, and cautioned Russian president Vladimir Putin that he “will regret...
Governments increasingly use algorithms to do everything from assign benefits to dole out punishment—but attempts to regulate them have been unsuccessful In 2018, the New York...
“It makes you want to cherish the Earth and protect it, the more you see it from space,” says a French astronaut calling for global cooperation...
1. What changed in the CDC guidelines? The CDC currently recommends that you “wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear...
“The U.S. is actually expanding fossil fuel infrastructure,” the 18-year-old Swedish climate activist said in a new interview. In an interview published in The Washington Post Magazine on Monday, Swedish activist...
Early in 2020, as the pandemic gripped the nation, JPMorgan Chase offered to help customers weather the crisis by taking a temporary pause on mortgage, auto...