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Business
Fed Holds Rates Steady, Noting Lack of Progress on Inflation
Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled that they are wary about how stubborn inflation is proving, paving…
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Science
What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly…
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News
Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.
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News
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
Selective college admissions have been a vortex of anxiety and stress for what seems like forever, inducing panic in more…
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World
China’s Electric Cars Keep Improving, a Worry for Rivals Elsewhere
More capable autonomous driving is just one way Chinese automakers are threatening to pull ahead — their E.V.s are also…
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Arts
What is Mubi? A Streaming Alternative to Netflix, Hulu and More.
We highlight one of the lesser-known places to discover great movies.
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News
Taylor Swift Needs to Become Other People
The biggest cultural news of the month is that a lot of people are kind of “meh” about Taylor Swift’s…
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News
Why Are We Gambling With America’s Future?
Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of…
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News
What Would the Economy Look Like Under a Second Trump Term?
Speculating about how the economy would perform under a second Donald Trump presidency normalizes the candidacy of a deeply flawed…
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News
Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?
It’s unusual when you find a strong dose of pessimism about the future of technological progress highlighted by one of…