Instead of assigning employees too many hours, large corporations routinely give them too few, hiring multiple part-time ...

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I always knew my mother loved me. I didn’t realize the full practical cost of her love until becoming a mother myself.

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Although the Trump administration has not announced major personnel cuts to OSHA yet, the agency’s ability to prevent ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Kirsten Hillman talks Trump, trade, and the fraught future of the U.S.-Canada relationship.

By choosing the name Leo XIV, the pope has indicated that he won’t merely be progressive or conservative.

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