Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Matt Shipman
"What effect does this combination of financial and health uncertainty have on people? And how do they deal with it? Our study suggests that the effect is profound," says Lynsey Romo. "The pandemic, and related expenses, may make it worse."
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- Written by: Ria Dunkley
While in class, children shouldn’t feel their time is wasted. Primary school teachers have an ethical responsibility to bring climate change into their classrooms and they’re well placed for the task.
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- Written by: Marcia Gentry
About a decade ago, I was working with a large, urban school district on creating a gifted and talented program that would include all kids, regardless of their race or income.
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- Written by: Caroline Brooks
Autumn has just gotten underway, but retailers are already hard at work preparing for the 2020 holiday shopping season, made more difficult this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Written by: Jennifer French Giarratano
Eliminating disparities in retake rates could close up to 10% of the income-based gap and up to 7% of the race-based gap in four-year college enrollment rates of high school graduates, findings of the working paper suggest.
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- Written by: Stephen Duckett and Will Mackey
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought once-in-a-generation destruction to the lives and livelihoods of people around the world.
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- Written by: David McMillan
Financial markets can tell us a lot about the economic recovery ahead, based on their direction of travel and how confident investors feel about the future.
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- Written by: Benjamin Appel and Cyanne E. Loyle
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate another year of its independence, the country is paying renewed attention to the founders, and how their legacy of slavery is linked to systemic racism.
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- Written by: Calvin Schermerhorn
On June 19, 1865 – 155 years ago – black Americans celebrating the day of Jubilee, later known as Juneteenth, may have expected a shot at real opportunity.
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- Written by: David J. Peters
Rural areas seemed immune as the coronavirus spread through cities earlier this year. Few rural cases were reported, and attention focused on the surge of illnesses and deaths in the big metro areas.
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- Written by: Tom Vasich
A new analysis stresses the need for caution when when reopening America’s schools.
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- Written by: Pat Harriman
Retail isn’t going back to normal, says a professor of marketing and psychological science.
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- Written by: Eleanor Russell and Martin Parker
In June 1348, people in England began reporting mysterious symptoms. They started off as mild and vague: headaches, aches, and nausea.
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- Written by: Michele Gilman
Long after the COVID-19 health emergency ends, many Americans will still suffer from the long tail of the pandemic’s economic devastation.
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- Written by: Daniel Baldwin Hess and Alex Bitterman
The United States and Canada have long enjoyed a stable relationship. The countries share history, the longest nonmilitarized international border in the world, and strong economic ties.
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- Written by: Darren Ellis, et al
Airlines face an unprecedented international crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Written by: David King and Chris Munn
As some 350,000 American churches and other houses of worship scramble to meet the spiritual and – increasingly – material needs of their members remotely, they are doing so on a tighter budget than usual.
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- Written by: Peter C. Mancall
Policymakers are beginning to decide how to reopen the American economy. Until now, they’ve largely prioritized human health
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- Written by: Dirk Philipsen
Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral.
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- Written by: Mark Munn
The jump in federal spending in response to the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic is not a new idea.
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- Written by: Kathryn McKinley
The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap in infection and mortality rates between rich and poor.
