Challenges to Student Loan Cancellation Reach Supreme Court
In September, Jason Doresky received a $10,000 direct deposit from the Education Department. It was a refund for payments he had made voluntarily on his federal student loans since March…
G.O.P. Donors in New York Await a Parade of Presidential Hopefuls
New York City’s heavy-hitting Republican-leaning donors in recent years were frozen in place at the presidential level by a fellow New Yorker, Donald J. Trump. But that was before Mr. Trump’s…
How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse | naked capitalism
Yves here. There’s a lot competition for the title of “Nastiest CEO”. And just by weight of numbers, Amazon has a strong claim. Starbucks has only 400,000 employees while Amazon…
Indian Americans Rapidly Climbing Political Ranks
“Within the Indian American community, political involvement wasn’t really a high priority, because I think people were much more focused on establishing themselves economically and supporting their community endeavors,” said…
Putin relying on US ‘attention deficit disorder’ to win war, CIA chief says: Ukraine updates
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a “sentimentalist” when it comes to the massive loss of life his troops are facing in Ukraine and believes he can exhaust Ukraine and…
Migrant boat breaks up off Italian coast, 59 dead
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Borsch: Ukraine’s secret weapon
As the first anniversary of the war trundles past with bleak prospects for peace, Ukrainians are savouring their secret weapon – the humble ‘borsch’ soup .
Millions of borrowers have had billions in student loan debt erased and there’s more to come. Here’s how
President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan is teetering on the edge of a Supreme Court cliff. Other avenues for forgiving or winnowing student loan borrowers’ debt, however, are alive and…
Making peace with dying: How death doulas in Oregon help terminally ill die on their own terms
Steve Connelly has mountain climbed, biked, rafted, surfed, skied and taken on any pulse-quickening challenge he could find, earning about 27 fractures for his efforts. At 58, he is facing the first…
The first attack on the Twin Towers: A bombing rocked the World Trade Center 30 years ago
On Feb. 26, 1993, a van loaded with a 1,200-pound urea nitrate bomb rocked the World Trade Center and became the first event that signaled the arrival of international terrorism on American…