Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has announced legislation designed to curb social media addiction and target “deceptive techniques” that tech giants such as Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram use to exploit users. The Missouri senator’s bill specifically takes aim at features of social media that are designed to be addictive, according to a statement released Tuesday. The […]
Student debt, empty retirement funds, lower earnings, and fewer investments. These are all things that describe many millennials today, who have now been set back even further by the coronavirus pandemic. Economists say it’s the estimated 73 million millennials in the United States who could suffer the greatest financial setbacks from the novel coronavirus. Kasi […]
Despite long being under a cloud of controversy for its human rights record – from the treatment of ethnic minorities to the muzzling of critics, all of which was amplified in the past year – China continues to climb the ranks as a human rights leader in the United Nations. On April 1, it was […]
Heart-wrenching photos of a 5-year-old girl gently supporting her 4-year-old brother as the side effects of chemotherapy disrupt their playtime has gone viral after their mother shared a raw post about how childhood cancer impacts the whole family. “One thing they don’t tell you about childhood cancer is that it affects the entire family,” Kaitlin […]
When my husband and I decided to buy a 1-acre lot in Washington, DC, and build our dream home, we considered getting a mortgage the way most people do: through a bank. Instead, we tapped into a far less traditional source. My mother-in-law. The backstory: When my father-in-law died in 1991, he left his wife […]
In 2012, more than 330,000 women in the United States elected to have breast augmentation surgery; worldwide, that number exceeded 1.5 million. Although media coverage suggests otherwise, only a minute percentage of the women who get breast implants are actresses and models. They come from all walks of life; they include policewomen and CEOs, teachers […]
The “financialization” of accounting Research on financialization and accounting can be divided into five distinct yet non-mutually exclusive groups. The first group of studies explores the broader political, economic and cultural context within which accounting change has taken place over the last three decades, including the birth of neoliberalism; a move away from long-term investment […]
New York state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to block the release of a man convicted in the 1980 murder of a 16-year-old girl in a crime so depraved it stunned law enforcement and shook a close-knit community to its core. Paula Bohovesky, an aspiring actress and high school honor student, was beaten, […]
Hunter Biden, the 49-year-old son of former Vice President Joe Biden, has been dodging discovery requests in connection with a paternity case in Arkansas, and is “the subject of more than one criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme,” a private investigation firm claimed this week in a bizarre court filing. In […]
As the Summer of COVID draws to a close, many experts fear an even bleaker fall and suggest that American families should start planning for Thanksgiving by Zoom. Because of the many uncertainties, public health scientists say it’s easier to forecast the weather on Thanksgiving Day than to predict how the U.S. coronavirus crisis will […]
