Record heat is forcing governments to move from emergency warnings to redesigning schools, workplaces, transit, housing, and public space. Czechia’s latest heat debate is not only about one hot spell. It is about whether governments are still treating extreme heat as an emergency interruption when it has already become a governance condition. Czech reporting from…
A heat dome now covers roughly half the United States, with about 180 million people under major or extreme heat risk from the National Weather Service. New York’s Central Park hit 100 degrees for the first time in 14 years, tying a record set in 1966. Heat indices topped 110 degrees from Washington, D.C., to…
Higher education raises qualifications. It does not guarantee equal access to opportunity. The Washington Post’s June 28 story “Four Black women. Nine degrees. Not one steady paycheck.” follows Aaliyah McShane, Chemeka Cooper, Kia Mills, and Shakia Jackson, four Black women in Little Rock, Arkansas, who collectively hold nine college degrees and remain without steady work….
Patriotism becomes personal when national symbols carry different historical memories. AP reporters Corey Williams, Linley Sanders, and Simran Parwani reported June 30 that Americans’ views of the flag are divided by politics, age, and race, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted ahead of the nation’s 250th…
California’s governor, both leading candidates to replace him, and the state’s largest business groups are all opposing a tax that would apply to roughly 200 people. That alignment is itself the story. A measure to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on Californians worth more than $1 billion qualified for the November ballot on June…
There is still no federal rule that says an employer has to stop working someone once the heat index crosses a specific number. That gap is what workers are living inside of this week. As a heat dome pushes dangerous temperatures across half the country this holiday weekend, millions of outdoor and indoor workers, construction…
Yung Miami’s “Spend Dat” became a proxy fight over music, morality, generational memory, and who gets to decide when culture has gone too far. Yung Miami’s “Spend Dat” has climbed to No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 since its April 24 release, and has been treated as a song-of-the-summer contender since. At the BET…
The same week the country marks 250 years of independence, its highest court is deciding who gets to be born into it. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 30 that the Constitution guarantees automatic citizenship to children born in the United States, striking down the executive order President Trump signed on his first day…
Access to AI is not the same as control over it. The gap between those two things is where the next global divide is forming. High-income countries owned 77% of the world’s colocation data center capacity as of June 2025, according to a recent analysis published by The Economy. Lower-middle-income countries owned 5%. Low-income countries…
As of July 1, UAE companies with 50 or more employees face work-permit suspensions if they have not raised Emirati employees’ pay to a new minimum of AED 6,000 a month, about $1,634. The rule, part of the country’s multi-year Emiratization program, is the first hard enforcement deadline attached to a policy that has spent…