The Business Journals

Serial layoffs are becoming the norm heading into 2026

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A host of corporate heavyweights announced several waves of ...
IEEE

Triangle Inequality for Inverse Optimal Control

Abstract: Inverse optimal control (IOC) is a problem of estimating a cost function based on the behaviors of an expert that behaves optimally with respect to the cost function. Although the ...
The New Yorker

Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?

You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. The “lumpenproletariat,” according to “The Communist Manifesto,” is “the social scum, that passively ...
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How Gender Inequality In Relationships Could Contribute To Sexual Abuse

Gender inequality in relationships creates an imbalance of power that often favors men over women. When one partner has more control, it can lead to situations where the other partner’s rights, ...
The Business Journals

Serial layoffs are becoming the norm for some companies. It's challenging workplace stability.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Human-resources leaders are ...
WTVD

'Highballed': Data shows tax assessment inequalities affecting longtime homeowners

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Beverly Walton can tell her life story on Rencher Street in Hillsborough. "I'm 66 years old, so I've been there 66 years," she said. She grew up in one house, met and ...
Wired

Meet the ‘Relationship Anarchists’ Ditching Romantic Norms

“People are sick of the rules of society,” Lavvynder says over the phone from their home in Salt Lake City on a recent Monday afternoon. “Monogamy has become the default. Straight cisgender patriarchy ...
The Diplomat

South Korea’s 2025 Election: A Test for Gender Equality

South Korea’s 2025 presidential election exposes the country’s deep gender gap in political representation. This gap is not due to complacency or cultural resignation. Korean women have long fought ...
The Conversation

Culture wars, political polarization and deepening inequality: the roots of Trumpism

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
World Politics Review

Gender Inequality Makes Natural Disasters Deadlier for Women

Women looked at the rubble of their collapsed house, in Mandalay, Myanmar, April 3, 2025 (Kyodo News photo via AP Images). Though earthquakes are not climate-related, other natural disasters are ...
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Social Inequality stock illustrations

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