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Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion who got news via social media was about equal to the portion who got news from print newspapers. Social media’s small edge over print emerged after years of steady declines in newspaper circulation and modest increases in the portion of Americans who use social media, according...

“As a former Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Finance, I know that fast-tracking these bills is not only wrong to do, but also shows how wrong the Republicans know these actions are. By rushing these bills, Republicans know they are attempting to deceive the people. Jamming the last days of the legislative session with voter suppression legislation and attempts at undermining the agenda of a newly elected Governor and Attorney General is a blatant attempt to override the vote by the people of our state.” – Mark Pocan, U.S. Congressman Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature released plans...

“Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.” – Will Rogers Advertising is messing up your life, but are you even aware of it? Most people aren’t. Since the day we were born, advertisements have been constantly bombarding us with their messages, so much that we have accepted them as a normal part of reality. We’ve been conditioned to believe that there’s nothing wrong with them, so we never stop and and take the time to consider how badly they’re influencing us. Yet, the harmful impact of advertising on...

Apple supplier Foxconn is reportedly cutting costs and widening its margins to keep ahead of the pack as the Chinese smartphone market slows, according to a new report. It remains unknown if the manufacturer will fulfill its promises to Wisconsin, which have been significantly reduced since it was awarded billions in taxpayer subsidies. Foxconn Technology Group, which supplies Apple with components for the iPhone, is reportedly planning to cut costs by billions of pounds amid concerns that iPhone sales growth is slowing. The Taiwanese manufacturer will slash 20bn yuan from expenses in 2019, Bloomberg News reported. Foxconn faces “a...

Most Americans know some version of “The Thanksgiving Story.” It is a tale that is invariably set in New England and involves pilgrims, Native Indians, and a harvest feast. As schoolchildren, we are taught about the colonists on the Mayflower and their hard first winter. We learn about the selfless assistance the Pilgrims received from their new Indian neighbors who taught them how to plant native crops so they would not starve to death. When those crops bore fruit, the magnanimous Pilgrims invited local Indians to join them in a meal of thanks. As we get older, we learn...

When the Prohibition era in the United States began on January 19, 1920, a few sage observers predicted it would not go well. Certainly, previous attempts to outlaw the use of alcohol in American history had fared poorly. When a Massachusetts town banned the sale of alcohol in 1844, an enterprising tavern owner took to charging patrons for the price of seeing a striped pig – the drinks came free with the price of admission. The Noble Experiment When Maine passed a strict prohibition law in 1851, the result was not temperance, but resentment among the city’s working class...