E. Gerald Corrigan, who as the aggressive president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank helped cushion Wall Street’s crash in the late 1980s, died on May 17 in a memory-care center in Dedham, Mass. He was 80. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, his daughter Elizabeth Corrigan said….
“Neither war that destroys us, nor peace that oppresses us.” This historic anti-war slogan of the Spanish feminist movement holds one of the fundamental keys to building a horizon of peace. It claims that peace is not just a ceasefire, nor is it surrender, or silence before those who impose…
But even when Israel agrees to conduct an investigation, it often seems the outcome is all but predetermined. After an uproar over the Israeli military’s open-fire policy during protests in Gaza in 2018 and 2019, which resulted in the deaths of more than 200 mostly unarmed Palestinians, Israel opened investigations…
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act could ban major tech firms like Apple from favoring their products over competitors. Aimed to shake up the competition, tech lobbyists claim the bill, which allows sideloading, could harm popular consumer products. Despite being a bipartisan bill, some Democrats are hesitant over worries…
It’s 22 degrees in Brighton and the city is out in full force: Girls with glittery nails sharing clouds of candy floss. Kids screaming as ice cream cones splatter onto dusty pavements. Guys in shades and trench coats taking cigarette breaks in between band rehearsals. And then there are MUNA…
I asked GPT-3 your question (“how do you see yourself?”) and this is what it said: I see myself as a “service provider.” If you ask me to write some text making one of your friends cringe, I will do exactly what is asked of me without balking at my…
In recent weeks, as the defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard has continued to overshadow nearly all other news stories and dominate the main social-media platforms, I’ve noticed that the normal people in my life—the ones who have not had the Law&Crime Network live stream…
Global stocks fell on Tuesday, giving back some of Monday’s gains and returning to the downward drift in recent weeks, as investors weighed mixed economic reports and company earnings. Monday’s rally had been the strongest start to a week since January, Jim Reid of Deutsche Bank noted, “so much so…
“Welcome to my partyyyyyy,” a vaguely Eastern European-accented voice drones, as a crowd of reporters, influencers, and hangers-on whip out their phones to capture the magic. “Shut up! I’m a masterpiece. I’m a masterpiece. I am Annaaaaaaa. Am I gorgeous or what? And don’t you worry. The wire money is…
Written by Ann Binlot, CNN In much of Western art, Asian women have often appeared as one-dimensional characters — sometimes seen as meek and docile, and at other times hypersexualized and exoticized. But such portrayals fail to show individuals coming from a myriad of cultural backgrounds, their identities rooted in…
