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Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but we can work through that,” Lloyd Wright, a retired farmer and former director of the USDA’s Office of Civil Rights, told Civil Eats’ …

There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix democracy.”There is growing recognition that rapid technology development is…

India and the UK aim to conclude the free trade agreement by the end of October this year, commerce and industry ministry said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the two countries concluded the fifth round of talks for the agreement…

While we would continue to see interest rate hikes and monetary tightening in response to inflation and policy stance correction, a lot of the proposed policy action may be in the price. Bond yields at the long end may already be pricing…

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to appoint Deloitte India as a consultant to suggest plans for bringing the state's economy to the USD 1 trillion mark, officials said here. The decision in this regard was taken on the…

With global oil inventories remaining critically low, a strong policy intervention on energy use could prevent risks of collapse of world economic recovery, said the International energy agency on Wednesday. “Rarely has the outlook for…

Clean slate laws are sweeping the country, offering many of the estimated 70 to 100 million people with a criminal record the chance to have their record expunged. The benefits seem straightforward: Making a criminal record no longer…

The potential gold standard for online content governance in the EU—the Digital Services Act —is now a reality after the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for the legislation earlier this week. The final hurdle, which is a mere…

Ethicist and researcher Lucy Sparrow further argues for the need for a “community manager” approach to moderation, whereby some moderators are tasked not just with quietly managing content behind the scenes, but with actively cultivating…

For medication abortions, sorting out federal preemption will require fresh lawsuits, which are likely to be brought in states already hostile to abortion, and—depending on their outcome—might rise to a Supreme Court that has already…