Politics
Public confidence in the press has been eroding for decades in the United States. According to a recent Gallup poll, just 34% of Americans have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in mass media,...
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Black Americans are underrepresented in entrepreneurship. The Black population in the U.S. accounted for 12.6% of the population in 2020, but the percentage of businesses with Black owners was only...
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The most well known firearm companies in the U.S. are probably the publicly traded companies, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc and Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. Like most gun makers, they make...
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Few industries have changed as much in recent years as media and journalism. In the United States, the rise of unregulated online platforms and the decline of print journalism have coincided with...
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Corruption is one of the main causes of poverty and underdevelopment. A country can be poor and struggling to raise capital to fund government services through taxation and investment, but that...
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There are currently genocidal acts being carried out in at least 10 countries, including Yemen, Myanmar, Syria, and Sudan, according to the multinational nonprofit alliance Genocide Watch. While some...
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Is going to a prestigious university the key to getting rich? All 25 of the richest Americans attended at least some college, and most graduated. To determine where America’s richest people went to...
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Over Presidents Day weekend, 10 separate mass shootings occurred across the United States, including one at a Georgia gas station in which 9 children from the ages of 5 to 17 were shot. It was the...
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As former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously said, “democracy is the worst form of government — except for all the others that have been tried.” Since the end of World War...
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The world’s motorists have put the pandemic in the rearview mirror and are on the road again. That is not good news for some of the planet’s urban centers, which are choked with vehicular...
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This week, in response to the escalating situation in Ukraine, the bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that they had moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has...
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An estimated 582,462 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2022, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The agency notes that the economic impact of the...
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Over a seven-hour period on Jan. 6, 2021, thousands of demonstrators came to the U.S. Capitol Building as lawmakers inside prepared to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. In an...
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A shooting in Monterey Park, California on Saturday left at least 11 people dead. The motive of the shooter, who died by his own hand, remains unclear. What is clear is that a tragedy of the...
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Emboldened by a growing acceptance, cannabis is becoming quite the cash crop in a number of countries. Cannabis is legal in Canada, decriminalized in Mexico, and partly or fully legal in many U.S....
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