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Finance

Fed Holds Rates Steady, Noting Lack of Progress on Inflation

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled that they are wary about how stubborn inflation is proving, paving…

Science

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly…

World

Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024

The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.

News

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

Selective college admissions have been a vortex of anxiety and stress for what seems like forever, inducing panic in more…

World

China’s Electric Cars Keep Improving, a Worry for Rivals Elsewhere

More capable autonomous driving is just one way Chinese automakers are threatening to pull ahead — their E.V.s are also…

News

What is Mubi? A Streaming Alternative to Netflix, Hulu and More.

We highlight one of the lesser-known places to discover great movies.

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Taylor Swift Needs to Become Other People

The biggest cultural news of the month is that a lot of people are kind of “meh” about Taylor Swift’s…

News

Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?

Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of…

News

What Would the Economy Look Like Under a Second Trump Term?

Speculating about how the economy would perform under a second Donald Trump presidency normalizes the candidacy of a deeply flawed…

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Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

It’s unusual when you find a strong dose of pessimism about the future of technological progress highlighted by one of…

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