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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Oscar winning film producer Walter Mirisch has died at age 101

Victories at several companies energized organizers, but hostile corporations – and an impotent labor board – stymie negotiations

Bing chatbot conspiracy theories offer a dark window into the dangers of toxic masculinity

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is part of Moscow's attempt to restore the empire that existed before the emergence of the Soviet Union. RFI's Jan van der Made talked to Professor Serhii Plokhy, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University on how the West failed to read Russian President…

Welcome to the Wednesday, February 22, Brew. 

College basketball predictions for every game along with the schedule, game times, and how to watch on Friday, February 17

Of the 192 officeholders currently occupying the top four executive positions in each state—governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of state—184 have a bachelor’s degree, 58 have a master’s degree, and 93 have a law degree. Nine such officeholders have a Ph.D., and one has a medical degree. Eight…

The case, filed by, among others, lawyer and FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate, is Edelman v. President & Fellows of Harvard College; an excerpt: Plaintiff Benjamin Edelman brings this suit in law and equity to correct the harm that Harvard University has caused to his career, livelihood, and reputation by unlawfully…

The United States Supreme Court is deciding a pair of cases that could end affirmative action programs that consider race in college admissions.

Pressure is rising on the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. On its face, this sounds reasonable. What’s not to like about ethics? But it’s worth asking what problem the change would solve.

A public health study from Harvard shows that six typical health habits halve the risk that one will develop long Covid.