4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1390+ words) This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Congressional candidate JoAnna Mendoza can quickly rattle off prices from the grocery store in the small town…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (541+ words) Global stock markets have absorbed a succession of economic and geopolitical shocks in recent years without suffering a prolonged breakdown, but HSBC strategists have identified several conditions that would leave investors more exposed after a period of unusually resilient returns....

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (500+ words) inkl What Mamdani's Office of Worker Power Actually Means for Delivery Workers and Nannies - Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed the executive order creating the Mayor's Office of Worker Power on Sept. 3 and unveiled it publicly on Labor Day, Sept. 7, naming organizer…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (573+ words) Calls for a moratorium on new data centres “send very much the wrong message” and could impact investment in Scotland’s AI sector, MSPs have been told. Holyrood’s Economy Committee heard AI could add more than £23 billion a year to Scotland’s…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (854+ words) IT’S only a game. No rational adult could argue otherwise about a “Fun 4s” match, in which kids aged five to seven run around small pitches with mini goals for 10 minutes and no-one bothers about the offside rule. Yet incredibly it…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (577+ words) inkl The Guardian view on the far right’s real weapon: it is the politics of powerlessness What links the thuggish masked agitation in southern England this weekend and the far-right Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) best-ever result in a German state…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (1248+ words) The Chicago Public Library was happy to indulge all three possibilities. One afternoon I came home with “Magic Is Dead: My Journey Into the World’s Most Secretive Society of Magicians,” “Village School” and “Cold Comfort Farm,” a stack suggesting either…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (849+ words) When Thomas Docking and his wife welcomed their first child, his new world of fatherhood came with a lot of uncertainties. "I actually thought I was quite well supported and informed," he told AAP. "My mother was a midwife, I…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (797+ words) Rising inequality is, at its core, a political and policy choice. This is the central message of the Global Justice Report authored by experts based at the World Inequality Lab, led by economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel. As economists…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) Just before the March 1996 federal election the then Queensland premier Wayne Goss warned Paul Keating that voters "were sitting on their front verandahs with baseball bats". He was right. When the dust settled Labor had been swept out of office…...