David Webb, Investor Who Took on Hong Kong Tycoons, Dies at 60
From his internet platform, he became a tenacious watchdog fighting financial regulators for minority shareholders and exposing shady business dealings.
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Real-time analysis of this week's Society news with AI sentiment analysis. Track emotional impact, happiness levels, chaos indicators and societal temperature of breaking Society stories. Page 95 of results.
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How ICE Crackdowns Set Off a Resistance in American Cities
In Minneapolis and other cities where federal agents have led immigration crackdowns, residents have formed loose networks to track and protest them.
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Why you're more like the Traitors than you think and how it could harm you
We underestimate how often we bend the truth, but doing so can leave us isolated and anxious.
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Claudette Colvin, civil rights icon arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies at 86
In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks' act of defiance.
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Overly involved parents may hold their kids back professionally
A recent study of more than 2,000 early-career adults found that young people whose parents were still very closely involved in their lives tended to have occup
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Why forcing people to go green can backfire
A new study reveals a conundrum for climate policy: People hate it when you tell them what to do.
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Why Shame No Longer Works and Won’t Fix Our Institutions
From time to time, a familiar prescription reappears in American public life: restore shame. If we could re-stigmatize bad behavior – name it, expose it, impo
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Britain’s 90s Housing Boom Handed Rich Kids Best Jobs, IFS Says
Equality campaigners have long highlighted how British families who made a fortune during the housing boom of the late 1990s and 2000s used the windfall to give
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Still Unaffordable: Child Care’s Rising Prices, Stretched Supply, and Staffing Shortages
America’s families need reliable child care options that are affordable, convenient, with no wait list and ensure their children are safe, happy, healthy, and
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3 Questions: Why meritocracy is hard to achieve
Professor Emilio Castilla explains how bias can creep into employers’ talent management processes — and what leaders can do to make their organizations fair
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Who should pay?
Climate risk scores on real estate listings are having an impact on prices and realtors are complaining. But who should pay for these losses? If you have been b
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Truck Drivers Exposed to Hazardous Oil and Gas Waste Fight for Their Rights — and Lives
Drivers exposed to several types of life-threatening oil and gas waste are now asking the Department of Transportation to enforce regulations to protect them. T
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Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles review – remastered 1997 classic is even more politically resonant now
PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, Xbox, PC; Square-EnixThis landmark role-playing game remains a revolutionary tour de forceAt first glance, Final Fant
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Russia’s fossil fuel war economy drives oppression and climate breakdown
The most far-reaching analysis of environment and environmentalism in Russia since 2022 shows how Putin’s regime relies on a toxic troika of extractivism, aut
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Gen Z is rebelling against the economy with ‘disillusionomics,’ tackling near 6-figure debt by turning life into a giant list of income streams
Failed promises are reshaping how Gen Z approaches financial decisions and their role in the economy. Call it “disillusionomics,” Alice Lassman says.
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Federal Spending Package Would Cut Lead Pipe Replacement Funding
"No one in the wealthiest nation on Earth should be subjected to this antiquated risk." The post Federal Spending Package Would Cut Lead Pipe Replacement Fundin
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Why Shame No Longer Works and Won’t Fix Our Institutions
From time to time, a familiar prescription reappears in American public life: restore shame. If we could re-stigmatize bad behavior – name it, expose it, impo
- American Enterprise Institute – AEI - Society -
Truck Drivers Exposed to Hazardous Oil and Gas Waste Fight for Their Rights — and Lives
Drivers exposed to several types of life-threatening oil and gas waste are now asking the Department of Transportation to enforce regulations to protect them. T
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Survey: The Affordability Crisis Is Here, and It’s Hitting the Working Class the Hardest
A new survey of 1,426 registered voters, conducted by GQR on behalf of The Century Foundation (TCF), provides fresh evidence of the extent to which families are
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ICE’s Killing of Renee Good Is Part of a Bigger Project
The right is waging, and winning, a war on empathy. The country is poorer, and more dangerous, for it.
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