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Global supply chains keep workers poor: three case studies show how the cycle can be broken
Global supply chains lead to companies capturing most of the value, while suppliers – and especially workers – get a much smaller share.
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TMZ descends on Washington in a test of whether tabloid tactics can serve the public interest
With spectacle, personality clashes and corruption increasingly defining American politics, it was only a matter of time before TMZ would set its sights on the Beltway.
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Who are hospital ethics consultants, and why should you care?
Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.
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Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s
Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.
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Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you
New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.
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How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution
A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide.
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The more Fox News a white American watches, the more likely they are to believe in a racist conspiracy theory, regardless of party affiliation and demographics
White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.
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Whistler by Ann Patchett: a pacy metafiction where rich people are nice to each other
Ann Patchett’s 11th novel follows a daughter and father who reunite and learn to be better to each other.
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Backrooms: why being trapped in the film’s endless corridors feels a lot like modern life
Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.
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Life in the ancient Arctic: tiny teeth of newly discovered species suggest it was a cradle of mammalian evolution
The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and originated.
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Chief Purpose Officers: A leadership solution or another management fad?
Make way for the Chief Purpose Officer - a corporate compass for keeping firms’ strategy in line with their purpose statements, but can they genuinely change organizations for the better?
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Four top tips for tracing your ancestry from a family historian
Studying the stories of our ancestors, whatever their background, is a deeply enriching experience.