The Latest Breaking News from Inequality

Would-be physicians are often told that a winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. Applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences — through, for example, physician shadowing, global health experiences or medical scribe work — can have harmful unintended consequences.

A new report by the Australia Institute shows more than 90 per cent of economic benefits are going to the top 10 per cent of Australians.

Since the 2016 presidential election, news accounts and scientific research have illustrated how defriending, a term originally associated with dropping Facebook friends, echoes in our broader, offline social lives. And what may seem like a simple decision to cut off a difficult relationship may actually deepen divisions in society.

The research found more than one in three people from minority backgrounds have experienced racially motivated physical or verbal abuse.