President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 in the State Dining Room of the White House on July 28, 2022
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The power of silence in a deafening world
Getty Images Why there’s more noise, and more kinds of it — and why it might be ruining our focus. Part of the July 2022
Leaked internal memo reveals Amazon’s anti-union strategies
Teamsters Local 63 members join union workers to rally in downtown Los Angeles, California, in March 2021, to show support for unionizing Alabama Amazon workers.
Why US gun laws get looser after mass shootings
Congress has rarely acted. But gun laws have been changing. For decades, the US Congress failed to make meaningful movement on gun reform in the
GDP declined again — but that might not mean we’re in a recession
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 27. | Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images What the latest economic
What Democrats’ big new bill would actually do
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) speaks during a news conference in September 2021 on the “billions of dollars taxpayers could have saved if Medicare was allowed
How Democrats plan to overhaul taxes, climate spending, and health care before the midterms
This week, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced his support for a version of Build Back Better. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sen. Joe Manchin’s
What GDP does and doesn’t tell us
Our main measure of the economy only tells us a fraction of what’s actually happening in the world. | Getty Images/iStockphoto What we lose when
Biden’s latest global infrastructure plan is all about competing with China. That’s a problem.
President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on June 25, as he headed to Germany to
The rise of land acknowledgments — and their limitations
Richard Langdeaux carried a Rosebud Sioux Tribe flag as he crossed the finish line Boston Marathon in 2021. Several indigenous runners took part in the