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I admire people who have the motivation, stamina and smarts to actively contribute to our communities in positive ways. This is especially true today when our cities are facing daunting challenges such as homelessness, mental health and environmental sustainability. We need the best hearts and minds to invest their time and energy in the common […]
Listen to article (2 minutes) A strong U.S. dollar is cutting both ways for companies across the globe. The dollar’s rise has caught investors’ attention, with many looking toward its effects on corporate revenue. A strong dollar can have adverse effects on U.S. corporations that sell goods overseas, denting exports by making those products less […]
In the United States, Asylum is a place on a map. Today, the roughly 1,000-person, predominantly white, scattered township sits quietly along the Susquehanna River, about 60 miles north-west of Scranton, Joe Biden’s birthplace. But more than two centuries ago, Asylum hosted the crème de la crème of French society – displaced aristocrats, military officers, […]
Similar to the way the world came together to develop a response to COVID-19, a group of UConn administrators, faculty, and graduate students are hopeful the world of higher education can unite to fight racism – even if it’s one campus at a time. The work of ICARE4Justice – or the Intersectional and Comparative Advancement […]
There is something in the DNA of people who become champions—the expectation of winning never leaves. After winning the 1981 college basketball championship as a sophomore for the famed Indiana Hoosiers, Isiah Lord Thomas III got used to the idea of winning. Thomas declared for the NBA draft right after and was picked second overall […]
SEOUL, July 14 (Reuters) – South Korea said on Thursday it is discussing with the United States ways to strengthen cooperation on chip-making, according to the presidential office. “The U.S. emphasised several times the importance of partnership in the chip sector in its supply chain review report in June last year,” a presidential official said.
The European Union will propose 1 billion euros in short-term financial relief for Kyiv’s urgent cash needs. Russia is easing labour rules in a bid to boost arms production in the face of Western sanctions. Russian missiles struck an apartment building and a recreation center near the Black Sea port of Odesa early Friday, killing […]
The long-term outcome of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling is anything but clear right now. But hearing a range of thinkers’ best guesses at where we could go can give us insight into the visions of the country that anti-abortion and pro-abortion groups will be fighting for now that 50 years of Roe v. Wade […]
Americans’ long-standing debate over abortion has often centered on whether the procedure should be legal. But beneath the surface, there also is disagreement among U.S. adults over whether legal restrictions on abortion are an effective way to reduce the number of abortions in the United States in the first place – or whether there are […]
In her nineties, civil rights activist Opal Lee hosted an annual 2.5-mile walk to demand Juneteenth’s national recognition and also honor the seldom-told history of some 250,000 enslaved in Galveston, Texas who did not learn of their freedom until two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. “We have to heal. You’ve got to know […]