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Today on TAP: France could be the next country to elect a far-right president.

Freight rail unions have gradually achieved their key demand from the labor dispute last year.

The authors reject the Cost-of-Thriving Index approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards.

How easy is it for a male breadwinner to raise a family? Oren Cass argues that the cost of “thriving,” is increasing. That’s false. When you do the numbers correctly, Winship and Horpedahl show that the cost of thriving is falling. It’s falling more slowly than we would like–but it’s still the case that current […]

By increasing efficiency, reducing errors and cutting costs, automation not only makes remote work possible but also profitable.

His legacy matters enormously for how we consider the future of the Constitution.

Don’t blame partisan judges. The real problem is ‘movement’ judges.

Congress has 36 committees. There’s a big hole in that list.

A friend recommended Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 3-part docuseries on Netflix a few days ago. And I did. The series focused on Arnie and his life in a way that portrayed him as a hero. I got that feeli…

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’

I opened the Royal Mail app to track a box of plants supposedly arriving today, and saw this: an estimated carbon footprint of my delivery’s emissions. That’s new. I suppose it’s …

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Multnomah County is seeking $51 billion over a disaster that was "virtually impossible" without climate change.

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A history lesson.

Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard

Tech companies seem to expect that we will continue to tolerate their various solutions, without realizing that many of these innovations create more problems.

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?

Venture capitalists have supercharged surveillance, immiseration, and dispossession. Why should we trust them with so much power over the economy?

The bill includes public transparency requirements for social media platforms and protections for researchers, writes John Perrino.

A drug dog in Los Angeles sniffed out a soda vending machine that was packed with heroin, fentanyl, and an assault rifle. According to KTLA, Ventura County “sheriff’s deputies were in L.A. to…

Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs.