Low-tech does not mean a return to medieval ways of living. But it does demand more discernment in our choice of technologies – and consideration of their disadvantages.

New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.

Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem is set to increase its cap on energy prices by 54% this April 2022. This is in response to the skyrocketing price of gas, aggravated by demand picking up as countries relaxed lockdown measures, low-wind speeds, and bottlenecks in supply chains.

Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media.

The boom of the cotton, sugar and tobacco industries of the colonial US simply would not have happened without the trade of slaves from Africa

President Biden’s Build Back Better plan calls for a second year of an expanded child tax credit disbursed monthly. But that package of measures stalled in the Senate after passing the House in November 2021.

There have been some standout successes for some countries dealing with this Covid pandemic.

Legislative progress came to a sudden stop a month later when Sen. Joe Manchin announced, in a Fox News interview, that he would not support it.

Just by refusing vaccines, a person cannot be deemed to have also refused consent to receive treatments for COVID. People who are unvaccinated have not waived their positive right to healthcare.

Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in a lawsuit of having engaged in price fixing and unfairly limiting financial aid by using a shared methodology to calculate the financial need of applicants.

Millions of Americans have no health insurance and even if the do they live in fear that one illness could bankrupt them.

Dickens consciously thought of A Christmas Carol as a message book, which he hoped would deliver what he called a 'sledge-hammer' blow on behalf of ameliorating the suffering of the urban poor

The question, then, is: Could an additional large spending increase cause inflation to accelerate further?

The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?

The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?

We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.

We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.

An impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new studies on inflexibility and discrimination against mothers.

The precarious economies of many traditional seaside towns have declined still further since the 1970s when an explosion of cheap holiday flights and package tours to Spain and...

Christie’s sold a digital collage of images called “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” for US$69.3 million dollars. Elon Musk said he’s selling a tweet of his as an NFT, which contains a song about NFTs. 

About a quarter of census tracts with a post office don’t have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal banking could provide a financial lifeline to the millions of Americans without a bank account, according to our new research

Most universities have moved courses online to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19. This includes lectures and tutorials. When done right, online learning can actually be as effective as face-to-face education.