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The bulk of President Joe Biden’s regulation directing businesses with 100 or more workers to require their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or agree to weekly testing is slated to take effect today.

The Pentagon won its first battle over its vaccine mandate for the National Guard but a broader fight over the mandate is raging as multiple states seek to exert their authority.

The IDF is opening the first all-female border defense platoon for religious women.

Looking back on 2021, the Aspen Institute Business & Society team shares the writing they were most proud of.

Aspen BSP works with business executives and scholars to align business decisions and investments with the long-term health of society — and the planet.

India’s central bank is considering launching a digital currency. Yet a key question that needs to be addressed first is: would Indian consumers even choose to use it?

John W. Rogers Jr. ...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.

Authored in partnership with Dr. Francesca López, Professor & Waterbury Chair of Equity Pedagogy at Penn State University, the brief looks at empirical research on teaching about race and racism, across more than 40 studies on child development, beliefs about academic ability, positive ethnic-racial identity, and sense of belonging.

In the last two years, activists in the US, primarily medical students and then later junior faculty, have shed light on the pervasiveness of racialisation of medical algorithms. Race-based algorithms, such as those to estimate kidney function, vaginal birth after caesarian section and pulmonary function as well as many algorithms used in the field of cardiology are indicators of just how deeply racialised Western medicine is in its theories, practices and knowledge production.