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Back to SearchThe link between immigration and longer life
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research spotlights how immigrants may be shaping the health and mortality rates of older Am…
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AI anxieties and market tumbles
Wall Street is looking to recover after yesterday's big stock market drop. Part of it was due to tariff uncertainty, but part of it was also due to a…
2 weeks ago
Tallying the cost of the Russia-Ukraine war, four years on
From the BBC World Service: Exactly four years ago, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been kil…
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Burning Questions: The EPA repealed the endangerment finding. Who are the economic winners and losers?
Earlier this month the Trump administration revoked the endangerment finding, which gave the federal government a legal basis for regulating greenhou…
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Here's how to prep for a job interview with AI
Imagine you're getting ready for a job interview. What do you do to prepare? You may have your sibling do a mock interview. You might also panic-buy …
2 weeks ago
Let's talk about the new Trump tariff
In response to the SCOTUS decision overturning most of President Trump’s tariffs, the White House announced a new, sweeping tariff of 15% worldwide o…
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Trump dusts off obscure legal authority for new tariffs
Following Friday’s Supreme Court decision striking down a number of President Trump’s tariffs, the administration is moving to impose a global 15% ta…
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Fallout from the Supreme Court's tariff decision
On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping “retaliatory” tariffs, ruling that he doesn’t have the authority to impose them u…
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Trump's tariffs continue to confound
From the BBC World Service: Governments around the world are scrambling to react to President Trump’s decision to impose a sweeping 15% tariff on all…
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AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers
Thanks to AI coding agents, basically anyone can program their own software without much technical knowledge. But lowering the barrier to sophisticat…
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