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As unemployment and underemployment have increased, more Americans are having trouble feeding their families.
Some members have left extremist groups in the wake of the Jan. 6 violence. Those who remain, and the new members who have joined are becoming more violent than ever.
Strong data suggests that economics is the worst field in which to be a woman, despite the much greater attention paid to other areas of STEM. The consequences of this aren’t felt only by the women who work in the field, but also in government policies which would likely look very different were more women involved in drafting them.
Relentless bombardment by stories on social media makes our attention an increasingly scarce resource and increases the chance that any given story we encounter is fake.
Lax regulatory oversight in Japan and an ineffective safety culture at the utility that operated the Fukushima plant caused a disaster that could and should have been prevented.
More than 35 million Americans struggle with hunger, but food insecurity isn’t evenly distributed, not even within urban areas. This is not an accident, but the result of decades of racist policies.
Up until the 1500s, brewing was primarily women’s work until the women doing the bewing were accused of being witches. In fact, the imagery we associate with witches today, from the pointy hat to the broom, emerged from their connection to female brewers.