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Unsurprisingly, Americans have experienced more frequent symptoms of anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though anxiety levels may increase and decrease depending on the rise...
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Russia is the least trusted country in the world by its own citizens. This is the conclusion of a major new piece of research about how much people trust their governments, media, and business, among...
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The state of unions in America today is not heartening to the labor movement. In 1983, the first year for which data is available, some 20.1% of the American workforce, representing about 17.7...
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There have been few times in recent history when the working man and woman in the U.S. had the leverage in the workplace that existed in 2021. People quit their jobs at a record rate and employers of...
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Nearly two years in, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of over 890,000 Americans. Despite early indications that the omicron variant, which reached the U.S. on Dec. 1, 2021, would be less...
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Climate change is affecting the entire world, but not all countries are affected equally. Each year, Germanwatch, an environmental organization that promotes global sustainability and equity, lists...
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It has been about two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and two months since the U.S. was hit with omicron – a variant shown to be four times more infectious than the delta variant,...
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When it comes to the impact certain foods have on the environment, it’s not surprising that meat and dairy products top the list. But you might be surprised that foods we’ve been told are good...
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It has been a long time since Americans have faced significant shortages in the goods they normally buy. As Christmas approaches, it is clear that some traditional holiday foods are either not...
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus has driven new daily cases of COVID-19 in the United States at the beginning of January to over a million. While cases have been on the decline, there are still...
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We tend to think of slavery and the Civil War as our distant past, and in some respects both are. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves on Jan. 1, 1863, and the 13th Amendment to the...
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The 2020 presidential election has gone down as among the most divisive in American history. The bitterness of the campaign culminated in the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C., in which supporters of...
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With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, rising inflation, simmering geopolitical tensions, and a widening ideological and cultural chasm in the United States, one could be forgiven for having a less than...
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It was hard for almost anyone in America to understand what a real pandemic would be like. Who could imagine that the nation with the most sophisticated and advanced health care system in the world...
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The U.S. is in for a brutal winter of COVID-19 infections. The current wave has been triggered, primarily, by the omicron variant, which currently accounts for the vast majority of new cases in the...
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