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‘What happens if we do die?’: Congress still stalled on continuity plan after 9/11

Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years.  Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’.  Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out…

Roll Call · Sep 9

Welcome to the 'upper-middle-class trap': why $300,000 a year doesn't feel like winning anymore

Investopedia put a $5 million price tag on the American Dream, but Nick Maggiulli says six-figure earners are more financially fragile than they look.

Fortune · Aug 27

Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza warehouse storing vital humanitarian aid

AN ISRAELI airstrike has destroyed a warehouse in Gaza, burying vital aid for malnourished children and pregnant women under rubble ...

The National (Scotland) · Aug 25

Nobody's socializing with their neighbors anymore

Americans are staying home more, but connecting with neighbors less as digital life grows.

Axios · May 13

Don’t Call It Upward Mobility If People Still Can’t Afford to Live

A living wage analyst challenges rosy claims about rising standard of living, and shows that for millions of Americans, their pay doesn’t cover the basics.

Capital & Main · Apr 30

CIA Officers Killed In Mexico: President Sheinbaum 'Not Informed' Of Covert Drug Mission

Two CIA officers working from the US embassy in Mexico were killed alongside two Mexican officials when their car plunged into a ravine after a counter‑narcotics mission in Chihuahua.

International Business Times UK · Apr 22

The housing affordability crisis isn’t just crushing millennials—it’s squeezing out buyers in their 50s and older, too

“When purchasing power declines, fewer people buy homes at 28—but also fewer purchase at 38 or 48,” writes Housing Center codirector Ed Pinto.

Fortune · Apr 22

US embassy workers killed in Chihuahua, Mexican president says she had no idea what they were doing

After two US officials were killed in a crash in Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico, president Claudia Sheinbaum said she had no idea what operation they were involved in as she was not informed. According to reports, it was a covert operation in northern Chihuahua to destroy a clandestine…

The Times of India · Apr 21

Two U.S. Embassy Staffers Die in Chihuahua Returning From Drug Lab Raid in Mexico

Two U.S. Embassy instructors and two Mexican state investigators were killed early Sunday in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua after returning from an operation targeting clandestine drug laboratories.

Latin Times · Apr 20

'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market

“Very real economic forces” are “limiting the options for noncollege-educated men,” said Gabrielle Penrose of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Fortune · Apr 18