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The 18 Best New Book Releases This Week: July 2-8, 2024
Parade· 11 hours agoFrom the Kennedy women to a yakuza princess (and sharks!), we’ve got them all.
Analysis: The world is sitting on a $91 trillion problem. ‘Hard choices’ are coming | CNN Business
CNN.com· 13 hours agoGovernments owe an unprecedented $91 trillion, an amount almost equal to the size of the global...
Researchers find that gratitude is a useful emotional tool in reducing desire to smoke
Medical Xpress· 1 day agoSmoking continues to rank as the foremost preventable cause of premature death. In a paper published...
ICE detainees suffer preventable deaths—Q&A with a medical researcher about systemic failures
Medical Xpress· 1 day agoThe 2024 Homeland Security appropriations bill increased funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations to handle an anticipated daily detainee population of 41,500, up from ...
Is the United States overestimating China’s power?
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoIt was written by: Dan Murphy, Harvard Kennedy School Read more: Dan Murphy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...
The endless pursuit of equality through college admissions
Mother Jones· 2 days ago“Everyone is treated the same, or equality demands that people be treated differently in order to...
Trump blames immigrants for taking ‘Black jobs.’ Top economists debunk long-held arguments like it
Fortune via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 days agoFortune asked Lant Pritchett, a leading immigration economist who teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy ...
Hong Kong museum celebrates life of architect I.M. Pei
The Raw Story· 4 days agoMore than 30 years after I.M. Pei reshaped Hong Kong's skyline with a jagged tower of steel and glass, the Chinese-American architect is once again the talk of the town as a museum celebrates ...
A Plummeting Murder Rate Stuns Boston. But Can It Survive the Summer?
New York Times· 6 days agoOnly four homicides have occurred in the city this year. Although luck has played a role, the city...
The Little Town Where Faulkner and Football Rule
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 6 days agoI keep winding up in Oxford, Mississippi, sometimes for business but always for pleasure.The first time I visited, in 1987, I was a reporter covering the...