Gen Z's new status symbol: super-expensive snacks

Tech Insider : Economy
Grocery bag filled with cash, produce, and high end items popular with gen-z

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The professor made porn. His firing may shape the future of free speech.

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Joe Gow
"If they can do this to me, they could do it to any tenured professor," says Joe Gow. "Academia is not a law firm or a bank or an insurance company. We're in the truth business."

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Mojitos and an MRI: Meet the Americans who are getting health screenings on vacation

Tech Insider : Travel, Economy, Travel
A woman smiles with a tropical drink and an MRI scan in the back.

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When Josef Woodman's shoulder gave out in 2012 — strained from chopping firewood on his farm outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina — he said he was quoted between $2,400 and $3,200 for an MRI at Duke University Hospital.

'Trump is going to win': Latino voters explain why they're moving to the right

Tech Insider : Politics, Economy
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A community gathering center in Starr County, where support for Donald Trump nearly quadrupled in 2020.

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Boomers are selling off their businesses. Millennials are swooping in.

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Stock graph with younger woman and older woman on opposite ends of the upward arrow

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America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'

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A man walks out of a store with a cart full of items, greeted by police officers outside.

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The plot to topple Putin

Tech Insider : Politics
A group of people stand between two stone columns.
Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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Gen Z loves Kamala. But don't expect a repeat of Obama in 2008.

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Kamala Harris in front of a pattern of Obama

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Gen Zers aren't lonely. They're fueling a vibrant social renaissance.

Tech Insider : Economy
Polaroid images of young adults smiling and having fun doing various activities such as: dancing, going to the gym, reading, having a picnic, etc.

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The deadly cost of America's housing crisis

Tech Insider : Economy
A house placed as bait in a bear trap

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Our homes should make us feel safe. A decent home is a refuge from the outside world, a relatively fixed point where people can drop their vigilance. Most of us need the security of home to stay balanced in the face of an unstable, sometimes frightening world.

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