The US Supreme Court will evaluate the constitutional validity of local ordinances barring homeless from sleeping on streets and sidewalks Article 405 words 35 votes
San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness? Article 1148 words 16 votes
The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now. education.higher work Article 5795 words, published Nov 22 2023 77 votes
Finland's government has cited security concerns for the closure of all border crossings with Russia – Russian-speaking Finns say their rights are being violated family Article 1268 words 24 votes
Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway Article 1420 words 8 votes
Sweden halts adoptions from South Korea after claims of falsified papers on origins of children family Article 593 words 10 votes
Jezebel and the question of women’s anger ~life.women Article 3914 words, published Nov 4 2023 33 votes
Sweden's schools minister Lotta Edholm aims to limit the profit-making ability of friskolor/free schools in her plans for education reform education Article 1010 words 8 votes
Mike Johnson's 'porn monitoring' remarks spark US national security concerns Article 690 words 47 votes
A vast northern European project is underway to combat isolation by promoting inclusion – we take a look at the results in Norway Article 560 words 9 votes
PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir will take part in Iceland's first full-day womens strike in forty-eight years – calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence ~life.women Article 740 words 12 votes
California public school students will learn about labor rights under first-of-its-kind law education work Article 635 words, published Oct 3 2023 44 votes
Broken zipper? France will pay to get it fixed ~life.style Article 801 words, published Oct 2 2023 16 votes
The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe Video 5:26, published Sep 30 2023 8 votes
Without a college degree, life in America is staggeringly shorter education.higher Article 1513 words 21 votes
For the fourteenth year running, Iceland takes the top position in the Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum work education Article 2951 words 11 votes
‘Once we win California, the nation is next’: What a caste discrimination ban means for Americans housing work education Article 1335 words 19 votes
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman introduces legislation to cancel school lunch debt education Article 532 words 77 votes
Women used to be more likely to vote Conservative than men but that all changed in 2017—UK research wants to find out why ~life.women Article 900 words 17 votes
Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants Article 885 words 23 votes
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives ‘favoured certain developers’ in controversial Greenbelt plan, auditor general finds in scathing report housing Link 27 votes
US offers nearly half-a-million Venezuelan migrants legal status and work permits following demands from strained cities work Article 538 words 16 votes
Rubble and ruin: How houses in Delhi were turned to rubble before the G20 housing Article 903 words, published Sep 5 2023 8 votes
US researchers employed by federal Housing and Urban Development agency propose study re comparative effectiveness of cash grants vs current system of vouchers for housing assistance housing.affordable Article 1623 words 15 votes
Bill to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California heads to Governor Newsom's desk Article 364 words 27 votes
Swedish schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons education Article 934 words 20 votes
A proposed law to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve, led to controversy Article 1412 words 41 votes
From fights over LGBT rights to prayer at school board meetings, Chino Valley California public schools have become ground zero for the culture wars education Article 6151 words 9 votes
Finland has finished inventorying its existing bomb shelters in a government effort prompted by neighbouring Russia's invasion of Ukraine – found 50,500 Article 329 words 22 votes
Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime Article 1214 words 14 votes
The new (improved?) face of public housing in Maryland housing.public housing.affordable Article 4068 words 10 votes
She wasn't able to get an abortion. Now she's a mom. At 13 years old, soon she'll start 7th grade. ~life.women Article 3573 words 95 votes
Growing segregation by sex in Israel raises fears for women’s rights ~life.women Article 850 words 71 votes
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student is going to get free lunch. education Article 392 words 71 votes
The historic Gullah-Geechee community is fighting to retain its land and culture in South Carolina Link 24 votes
An abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later. parenting Article 5491 words 55 votes