September 13, 2022In recent years, study after study has found that living in neighborhoods with abundant green space is linked to positive health outcomes. These include better , stronger , and greater . No wonder these areas are also linked to lower .But when it come to promoting human health, not all green spaces are created equal. That's the conclusion of new Australian research, which finds higher levels of wellness in areas marked by one particular manifestation of the natural world: leafy trees."Protection and restoration of urban tree canopy specifically, rather than any urban...…September 13, 2022In recent years, study after study has found that living in neighborhoods with abundant green space is linked to positive health outcomes. These include better , stronger , and greater . No wonder these areas are also linked to lower .But when it come to promoting human health, not all green spaces are created equal. That's the conclusion of new Australian research, which finds higher levels of wellness in areas marked by one particular manifestation of the natural world: leafy trees."Protection and restoration of urban tree canopy specifically, rather than any urban...WW…

September 13, 2022The United States House of Representatives voted Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, higher than any current state minimum wage and more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. The bill is likely to face challenges in the Republican-controlled Senate.The federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009, and its value has been decreasing with inflation over the last 10 years. A yearly salary on $7.25 per hour comes out to about $15,000 per year, putting workers with families of two or more with no second source of income below the...…September 13, 2022The United States House of Representatives voted Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, higher than any current state minimum wage and more than double the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. The bill is likely to face challenges in the Republican-controlled Senate.The federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009, and its value has been decreasing with inflation over the last 10 years. A yearly salary on $7.25 per hour comes out to about $15,000 per year, putting workers with families of two or more with no second source of income below the...WW…

September 12, 2022The El Paso, Texas, mass shooting that left 20 dead on Saturday may actually spell the end for one of white nationalism's greatest resources: the online radicalization of potential domestic terrorists.Almost immediately before he opened fire at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall, the 21-year-old shooter posted a crazed, hate-filled manifesto to the online message board 8chan that's become "a megaphone for mass shooters, and a recruiting platform for violent white nationalists" in recent years, as the New York Times . Both the Poway, California, synagogue and...…September 12, 2022The El Paso, Texas, mass shooting that left 20 dead on Saturday may actually spell the end for one of white nationalism's greatest resources: the online radicalization of potential domestic terrorists.Almost immediately before he opened fire at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall, the 21-year-old shooter posted a crazed, hate-filled manifesto to the online message board 8chan that's become "a megaphone for mass shooters, and a recruiting platform for violent white nationalists" in recent years, as the New York Times . Both the Poway, California, synagogue and...WW…

September 13, 2022For the last half century, the outer limit of free speech in America has been defined by violence. In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)—involving an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested following a hate-filled public speech that police saw as advocating for crime—the United States Supreme Court ruled in a majority opinion that the government cannot restrict or punish inflammatory speech unless it can prove that such speech is both "directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action" and "likely to incite or produce such action."The ruling established a "Brandenburg...…September 13, 2022For the last half century, the outer limit of free speech in America has been defined by violence. In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)—involving an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested following a hate-filled public speech that police saw as advocating for crime—the United States Supreme Court ruled in a majority opinion that the government cannot restrict or punish inflammatory speech unless it can prove that such speech is both "directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action" and "likely to incite or produce such action."The ruling established a "Brandenburg...WW…

September 13, 2022Donald Trump is a self-admitted . As recent events have made undeniably clear, he is also . into the psychological roots of racial prejudice suggest these seemingly separate traits are, in fact, strongly linked.A research team led by Harvard University psychologist reports people who live in states with higher rates of infectious disease are more likely to hold both overt and implicit prejudices. This finding held true after taking into account a myriad of other factors, including religiosity, ideology, and education.It further found that, among white people who are highly...…September 13, 2022Donald Trump is a self-admitted . As recent events have made undeniably clear, he is also . into the psychological roots of racial prejudice suggest these seemingly separate traits are, in fact, strongly linked.A research team led by Harvard University psychologist reports people who live in states with higher rates of infectious disease are more likely to hold both overt and implicit prejudices. This finding held true after taking into account a myriad of other factors, including religiosity, ideology, and education.It further found that, among white people who are highly...WW…

September 13, 2022President Donald Trump unveiled details of a $16 billion bailout for farmers this week to compensate for income lost in the trade war with China, a conflict that has done lasting damage to American industry—and raised farm subsidies to new heights in the process."The details we announced today ensure farmers will not stand alone in facing unjustified retaliatory tariffs while President Trump continues working to solidify better and stronger trade deals around the globe," United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a  outlining the trade relief package...…September 13, 2022President Donald Trump unveiled details of a $16 billion bailout for farmers this week to compensate for income lost in the trade war with China, a conflict that has done lasting damage to American industry—and raised farm subsidies to new heights in the process."The details we announced today ensure farmers will not stand alone in facing unjustified retaliatory tariffs while President Trump continues working to solidify better and stronger trade deals around the globe," United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a  outlining the trade relief package...WW…

September 13, 2022Some in Congress of trade policy back from the president. It might surprise you to learn that lawmakers ever had it.Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of United States trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name. Over the ensuing decades, however, the legislative branch began to cede more and more power to the executive after a trade war sparked by protectionist tariffs worsened the Great Depression.As a result, President Donald Trump today has been able to and...…September 13, 2022Some in Congress of trade policy back from the president. It might surprise you to learn that lawmakers ever had it.Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of United States trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name. Over the ensuing decades, however, the legislative branch began to cede more and more power to the executive after a trade war sparked by protectionist tariffs worsened the Great Depression.As a result, President Donald Trump today has been able to and...WW…