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: Jan Mutchler
The U.S. population is aging at such a rate that within a few years, older Americans will outnumber the country’s children for the first time, according to census projections.
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- Written by: Sue Ishaq
People worry about having access to clean water, power, health care and healthy foods because they are essential for survival. But do they ever think about their access to microbes?
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- Written by: Henry F. (Chip) Carey
Numerous anti-government protests have paralyzed cities across the globe for months, from La Paz, Bolivia, to Santiago, Chile, and Monrovia, Liberia, to Beirut.
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- Written by: Nicole Hallett
Critics would have you believe that upping the minimum wage in restaurants will lead to massive layoffs and closures. But since raising the minimum wageto US$15 per hour nearly a year ago, the restaurant industry in New York City has thrived.
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- Written by: Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage
Economic inequality is high and rising. At the same time, many governments are struggling to balance budgets while maintaining spending for popular programs.
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- Written by: Dr. Sajeda Tuli
Migration is getting increasing attention in Australia, with the Morrison government recently putting the focus on settling migrants in regional areas to ease pressure on the capital cities.
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- Written by: Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Americans no longer regard women as less competent than men on average, according to a nationally representative study of gender stereotypes in the United States.
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- Written by: Neil Schoenherr
Efforts to decrease gender inequality, such as tuition-free primary education and paid parental leave, transform norms and improve health for women and their children, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Robert Reich and W. Kamau Bell explain the criminalization of poverty and the flaws in our criminal justice system.
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- Written by: Barbara Benham
Less than half of school-aged children in the United States are flourishing, research finds.
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- Written by: Richard Fossey
A college education can set you up for a lifetime – though it can come with a hefty price tag
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- Written by: Claire Kelloway
A new report shows growth of dollar stores in low-income and rural communities furthers inequity and pushes out local businesses.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Robert Reich debunks 12 misconceptions about tax policy in America.
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- Written by: Joshua Healy and Andreas Pekarek
Australia’s national minimum wage should become a “living wage”, according to a new campaign from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). But what exactly is a living wage?
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- Written by: Anna Varela
Society’s expectations about gender roles alter the human brain at the cellular level, according to a new paper.
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- Written by: Anjana Susarla
Every aspect of life can be guided by artificial intelligence algorithms – from choosing what route to take for your morning commute, to deciding whom to take on a date, to complex legal and judicial matters such as predictive policing.
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- Written by: Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
To end austerity and make the economy work better for the whole country requires transforming the tax system.
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- Written by: Nancy Modesitt
No matter how you slice the data, women in the U.S. earn a lot less than men. A typical woman working full-time makes 81 cents for every dollar a man earns, little more than the 77 cents she got a decade ago.
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- Written by: Anthony C. Infanti
What and how a country chooses to tax says a lot about its values. A core value built into the DNA of America, for example, is equality.
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- Written by: Simon F. Haeder
President Trump enthusiastically declared on March 26, 2019, that Republicans will be known as “the party of health care.” He also ordered the Justice Department to defend the ruling of a Texas judge that seeks to eliminate the Affordable Care Act in its entirety during the appeals process.
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- Written by: Nicholas Beuret
American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a carbon-neutral economy in the next ten years, while reducing both poverty and inequality.
