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CONNECTICUT ENDED FEES FOR PRISON PHONE CALLS. WILL THE REST OF THE COUNTRY FOLLOW SUIT? JOVAAN LUMPKIN ENTERED the Connecticut state prison system in 2004, at age 17. In the [...]

In May of 2020, Joselin Hernandez was sitting alone in the rent-stabilized apartment she shared with her mom, sister, and brother in Los Angeles's Highland Park neighborhood when she heard [...]

Some U.S. businesses are forcing workers to sign contracts that demand steep ''reimbursements'' if they leave. Benzor Shem Vidal started caring for his nonverbal autistic brother when he was 12. [...]

Barack Obama's Netflix series ''Working'' tries to catch you up on decades of change -- more than it has time for. Sheila steps into a wood-paneled room and addresses a [...]

Operating in shadows, he was a hero; in the light, he quickly became a villain. On Sept. 16, CNBC's ''Squawk Box'' aired a segment about Sam Bankman-Fried -- the chief [...]

Pandemic, Inc.; Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick By J. David McSwane Simon & Schuster The 1918 influenza pandemic hit Washington, D.C., like a [...]

Cooking, life advice, bored dancing, workout tips -- on social media, you're reminded that incarceration is a pretty common slice of American life. In a recent video on TikTok, a [...]

THE DEBT TRAPHow Student Loans Became a National CatastropheBy Josh Mitchell The day in 1957 when the Russians launched Sputnik, Lyndon Johnson, then the Senate majority leader, was hosting a [...]

IN A 2021 interview with the Stanford Review, Blake Masters was asked for a historical figure he admired. He chose two. The first was George Washington, possibly the best-known military [...]

The article discusses the British launched a naval blockade of the English Channel and North Sea, in an attempt to bring Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire down. For nearly five years, the blockade held, preventing the shipment of manganese and other metals essential for manufacturing. At first, the British and allies allowed neutral parties through.

Dhar Mann and other ''wholesome'' channels combine the high-definition slickness of today's YouTube content with the feel of a corporate-training video. Few online genres are as fascinating as the realm [...]

The article focuses on a documentary crew filming a meeting of home-care aides employed by At Home Care, LLC, where they discuss their jobs and the close relationships they have with the people they care for.

RECENTLY, WHILE volunteering as a union organizer for freelance journalists, I spoke with a skeptical member. 'Really, what is my roi?' he asked. I tried to explain that the union [...]

The article focuses on Local 207, the only lobstering union in the U.S. Topics discussed include estimated number of lobstermen represented by the union, remarks from Rebecca Lurie, a professor of labor studies at the City University of New York, about the potential model for gig economy workers that the union can offer, and origin of the labor union.

LKY often suggested that the West should not try to push democracy on Singapore, because democracy was incompatible with what he called "Asian values." In the West, the narrative accepted by many is largely Singapore's state-issued story of success - in large part because, for those in power, especially the Reagan administration officials who adored LKY, a dictator was better than a communist. LKY, as he's often called, was Singapore's prime minister from 1959 to 1990 and oversaw what some call its economic miracle. [Extracted from the article]

Cooperatives are common in Maine fishing, and many own wharves, allowing fishermen to pool purchases of bait and fuel to get better prices. The union formed a marketing cooperative that would purchase the catch from the wharves and sell to customers, giving lobstermen greater bargaining power. Virginia Olsen, a Lobster 207 member and fifth-generation lobsterman, says the union hasn't made anyone rich - but it has given fishing communities a sense of stability. [Extracted from the article]

The author reflects on the logic of the return on investment (ROI). Topics discussed include areas wherein a return on investment approach can be applied, the history of the ROI, a theoretical analysis of investment in human capital as discussed in Gary Becker's 1962 study, and the downsides of ROI.