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Are American voters actually gloomy about the economy, or is something else going on?
Many standard measures of economic health are strong, but voters in both parties are increasingly pessimistic.
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Allegheny County is reassessing every property – here’s how your tax bill is calculated now
A court has ordered Allegheny County’s first full reassessment since 2012. A finance scholar explains how assessed values and millage rates add up to your tax bill.
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How different election results affect bank stability – global study
A study of 22 economies between 2000 and 2023 reveals that elections have a prolonged impact on bank stability.
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How porn became so extreme – and how it’s shaping the sex lives of young people
Extreme pornography has become readily available on mainstream porn sites. Listen to expert Clare McGlynn on The Conversation Weekly on what this is doing to the sex lives of young people.
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What if we paid for electricity through taxes, not bills?
Taxation is broadly progressive, while levies on energy bills hit poorest households hardest.
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70 years ago the Suez crisis exposed British relative decline. Today, the Iran conflict could be doing the same for the US
Suez showed that Britain had lost the leeway to behave like a superpower.
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Faculty and students show how reporting is done when a university partners with local news
Some universities are developing innovative arrangements with universities where students help report and faculty provide guidance.
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What is Sharia law, and why is it so controversial in the United States?
Ordinary Muslim religious practices can often be treated as political threats, writes a law professor.
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Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it
A food systems researcher shows how trucking deregulation and lax antitrust enforcement let big grocery chains grow as rural distribution thinned.
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Democrats are the unwitting beneficiaries of Trump’s immigration policies
A quiet US-Mexico border, and the reduced urgency of undocumented immigration, has deprived Republicans of an issue that previously energized voters and offered conservatives an advantage.
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Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station
COMMENTARY: By Tracy Campbell Palestinian-Israelis are entitled to vote — sort of. Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners apparently considered this an alarming development. So alarming, in fact, that Netanyahu’s Likud party and Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party announced plans to deploy approximately 2000 far-right bozos into Palestinian communities to monitor polling stations. READ
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Mortgage holders aren’t alone in paying for rate hikes. Here’s how the RBA spreads the pain
Higher interest rates slow the economy in many different ways.