How Higher Education Is Bad for America

Fortune Insiders How Higher Education Is Bad for America In a recent Pew Research Center survey, 58% of Republicans and conservative-leaning respondents said they felt that colleges and universities negatively affect the U.S. By comparison, only 19% of

Tech People Distrust the Media in General, but Trust the Media They Like Studies have shown that the public’s trust in the media is not only extremely low, but falling. A new report , however, suggests that people’s responses to surveys about the media vary

As Donald Trump Wins Presidency, Country Reacts

Leadership Lawmakers Across U.S. Move to Include Young People in Voting Donald Trump’s characterization of Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists during his presidential campaign angered Heidi Sainz, whose family is from Mexico and who has close friends who

Leadership White House Says No Staff Shake Up On the Horizon President Donald Trump’s White House has been sharply divided by the rivalry between his powerful son-in-law with unfettered access to the president and the ideologue behind Trump’s

Fortune Insiders Republicans Are Ready to Detonate the Senate Over Neil Gorsuch Senate Democrats now have enough votes to sink Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination for the Supreme Court. In response, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans are threatening to change

Leadership Black Lives Matter Activists Turn Attention to Statehouses A new initiative launched by Black Lives Matter activists seeks to re-focus the movement’s efforts on state capitols, building on momentum at the national level to push back against President

Paul Ryan, House GOP Address Press After Republican Party Conference

Tech ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Creator Threatens to Expose Congress Web History A recent Congress vote to repeal certain Internet privacy rules has caught the ire of many Web users—including one who has promised to buy and publish Congress Web history. Max Temkin, the creator of

Leadership Former Dairy Farmer Leads Trump-Russia Investigation Devin Nunes once said all he wanted to do was work on a dairy farm. Now the man from the rural Central Valley of California is running one of the most scrutinized, complex and politically fraught

Remote Area Medical Volunteers Treat Patients

Leadership In Appalachia, Trump’s Proposed Budget Has People Worried Crystal Snyder was trying to figure out life as a single mom when she lost her job at a West Virginia T-shirt factory. The 37-year-old had no college degree, mostly because she married at 16,

Images Of 1040 Forms As IRS Begins To Accept Tax Returns

Finance Income Tax Audits Plummet as IRS Loses Agents to Budget Cuts As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low. The number of people audited by the IRS in 2016 year dropped for the sixth

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