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PUERTO RICO INCHES TOWARD SELF-DETERMINATION

REP. RAÚL GRIJALVA (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, was pissed. The prominent progressive had just left a July 26 committee meeting on the Puerto Rico Status Act, a legislative compromise negotiated by the territory's nonvoting House member, Rep. Jenniffer GonzálezColón of the New Progressive Party (PNP).

How Venture Capital Made the Future

LIBERATION CAPITAL,\" AS investor Arthur Rock called it, \"was about much more than keeping a team together in the place where its members happened to own houses.\" In 1957, Rock took a gamble on the \"traitorous eight\"-a team of promising engineers at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory-and counseled them to free themselves of their authoritarian boss by quitting en masse and striking out to form Fairchild Semiconductor.

GOVERNMENTS SCRAMBLE TO MANAGE REGULATE, AND THROTTLE CRYPTO

MOST DANGEROUSLY OF ALL, THEY'RE STARTING TO MAKE THEIR OWN CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES.

THE LABOR MARKET IS BROKEN

INFLATION IS UP. The stock market is down. Unemployment is just 3.5 percent. Yet labor force participation remains stubbornly low, with only 62.3 percent of the civilian population working or actively looking for work-well below pre-pandemic levels. And even before the pandemic, that figure had been steadily declining for years.

RELIGION: AGAINST GAME OF THRONES CHRISTIANITY

FOR MANY MEMBERS of the so-called New Right, one thing is clear: Classical liberal principles are not getting the job done.

Psychiatrists Do Not Know What They Are Treating

AS A BOY, especially while lying in bed or suffering a fever, I was periodically troubled by harshly critical voices that vaguely charged me with misconduct and failures of character. As I grew up, the murmuring Greek chorus was replaced by a single voice, which by then I recognized as my own.

Stop Spazzing Out About 'Spaz'

SOCIAL MEDIA, STREAMING, AND A NEW ERA OF DIGITAL SELF-CENSORSHIP

PROSECUTORS SHOULDN'T BE ABOVE THE LAW

BY GIVING POWERFUL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY, THE SUPREME COURT LEAVES THEIR VICTIMS WITH NO RECOURSE.

Keri Blakinger Is a Figure Skater and a Felon

KERI BLAKINGER IS many things: a former elite figure skater, an Ivy League graduate, a prolific criminal-justice journalist, a convicted felon. The Texas-based writer recently published Corrections in Ink (St. Martin’s Press), a memoir that strings these seemingly disparate lives—from her near-Olympic rise to her drug addiction to her two-year prison stint to her Cornell graduation—into one very compelling narrative about redemption, second chances, and what you’re probably getting wrong about the legal system.

THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST

Otto Frank-father of Anne, the teenager whose posthumously published diary became standard reading for students learning about the Holocaustfled with his family from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933. But the Nazis eventually followed him there. One target of their 1940 bombing campaign was the U.S. consulate in Rotterdam, where Frank's visa application was destroyed along with everything else.

THE NEW DEAL AND A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN

THE U.S. SUPREME Court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, has raised the possibility of a future Republican-controlled Congress seeking to ban abortion nationwide. If that happens, the resulting courtroom battles will likely center on a New Deal-era precedent that vastly expanded the scope of congressional power.

ONE FOOT OFF THE GRID

WHEN OUR WATER was turned off one morning last January, we assumed it was due to the sinkhole slowly expanding across the width of our single-lane street in South Philadelphia. But we could only guess, as no one answered the phone at the Philadelphia Water Department, and the first city employee didn't show up on our street until four hours after the taps died. When one of my elderly neighbors asked how long it would take to restore service, the city guy said his crews were swamped. It took 27 hours.

HIGHER COSTS FOR HIGHER ED

WHEN PRESIDENT JOE Biden announced in August that he was canceling thousands of dollars in student loan debt for most current borrowers, he explained that his plan was partly a response to the rapid rise in the cost of higher education.

Iran's Women Lead the Challenge to Theocratic Rule

The focus is on women’s rights, but dissatisfaction with the mullahs is widespread. The regime is responding to growing protests with vicious—and well-practiced—tactics

Discoveries Revealed Through Drought

Extreme drought gripped the world this year, fueling wildfires, draining rivers, reducing harvests. Amid the climate hardship are artifacts of thousands of years of lost history once buried or flooded, now reappearing due to plummeting water levels. From a sunken WWII-era landing craft in Nevada to an abandoned village in Iraq to a medieval horse bridge in England and undersea prehistoric stone monuments in Spain, here are sites that silently witnessed and documented historic climate change. —fan chen

'Hype, Hubris and Blind Ambition'

GE may have brought good things to life' over its 130-year history, but its rise and fall is a business cautionary tale for modern times

AMERICA'S BEST BANKS 2023

With inflation high and interest rates rising, you need a bank that helps you make the most of every dollar more than ever

'I Feel Invisible'

A SURGE IN LONELINESS AND ALIENATION IS FUELING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AMONG TEENS AND ADOLESCENTS. HERE'S WHAT SCIENCE SAYS WILL HELP

A Reporter at Large End of the Road

In Americas bike-racing community, a murder exposes a lot of dirt.

Field of Nightmares?

For years a woman has said her father killed and buried as many as 70 people in western lowa. State and federal authorities are finally taking her seriously

THE U.K.'S 100 Most Loved Workplaces

IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT FOR COMPANIES TO BOND WITH AND NURTURE EMPLOYEES. HERE ARE THE BUSINESSES IN GREAT BRITAIN DOING JUST THAT

XI MISSES THE MARK

CHINA QUIETLY GIVES UP HOPE OF OVERTAKING THE U.S. ECONOMY

The visionary Egyptian entrepreneur determined to inspire the nation’s youth

A pivotal figure in Egypt's growth, Anmed Abou Hashima is focusing on encouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs

Another Change in Direction

Arctic Monkeys’ new album The Car finds the popular indie rock band employing amore subdued and elegant sound

Bringing consumer finance into the digital age

One of Egypt's largest financial services firms, Contact Financial provides innovative consumer financing products

COP27 comes to Egypt

Egypt’s COP27 Presidency places action at the heart of its agenda for the summit

Egypt comes alive

A host of marquee international events backdrop a vibrant new campaign to attract visitors to Egypt

Brooke Shields

If you think about it, purely based on her 40-plus-year career, Brooke Shields is the perfect podcast host because she has a story for everything.

Celebrating Spooky Season Around the World

The transition from fall to winter is a time filled with ghosts, ghouls and celebrations, when the gates to the underworld are thought to be open and spirits from the other side mingle with the mortals. While Americans are drinking pumpkin-spice lattes, trick-or-treating and carving jacko-lanterns this month, cultures across the world are gearing up for their own spooky-season traditions. From Hong Kong’s Hungry Ghost Festival to Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos to Haiti’s Fat Gede, here are the ways people welcome otherworldly spirits and souls. MEGHAN GUNN

Autos Awards 2022

FOR OUR SECOND ANNUAL ROUNDUP OF THE BEST NEW WHEELS, WE PRESENTED AWARDS TO REFRESHED FAVORITES AND ELECTRIFIED NEWCOMERS