These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War. To this thinking I have only to add a point of view: I…
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Read More The Challenges of Being a Woman Leader of Color at a NonprofitJohn Waggoner, AARP, Updated January 28, 2021 You might be filling out your tax return for 2020, but you’re living in tax year 2021, and tax year 2021 has substantial differences from 2020. Your tax brackets are slightly higher, for example, as is your standard deduction. You don’t have many options for reducing your 2020 tax…
Read More Your 2021 Tax Brackets vs. 2020 Tax BracketsExecutive Summary The American religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation. White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all adults living in the country. Today, fewer than half of all states are majority white Christian. White Christians now account for fewer than half of the…
Read More America’s Changing Religious IdentityHere are three ways to visualize the monstrous death toll of the coronavirus in this country By Artur Galocha and Bonnie Berkowitz Feb. 21, 2021 A year ago, covid-19 had killed just a handful of people in the United States. Now, the pandemic’s official death toll equals the size of a major city, more than the population of Kansas…
Read More 500,000 dead, a number almost too large to grasp“Yesterday, five board members who oversaw Texas’s power grid resigned. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas had been facing backlash after a winter storm left millions of Texans without power for days during some of the state’s coldest temperatures. The council ordered rolling blackouts to try and preserve electricity throughout the state. But it led to skyrocketing…
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