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Why are Americans fighting over no-fault divorce? Maybe they can’t agree what marriage is for. relationships Article 966 words, published Mar 21 2024 38 votes
US President Joe Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health ~life.women Article 959 words 23 votes
How does Paris stay Paris? By pouring billions into public housing. (gifted link) housing.public Article 1293 words, published Mar 17 2024 17 votes
Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds ~life.pets Article 686 words 15 votes
Denmark wants to conscript more people for military service – including women, for the first time Article 892 words 13 votes
Denmark's tough laws on begging hit Roma women with few other options – the Roma minority are heavily discriminated against across Europe ~life.women Article 21 votes
On International Women's Day, Northern European countries stand out for women who are looking to develop their careers – Iceland secured the top spot ~life.women Article 606 words 3 votes
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses” ~life.women Article 455 words 12 votes
The 24-hour city: In a push to bolster nightlife, cities are changing laws to keep bars, restaurants and transit systems operating round-the-clock Article 77 words 34 votes
Demonstrators claim lack of affordable housing in Gaeltacht region threatens the survival of the Irish language housing.affordable Article 715 words 13 votes
What if US public housing were for everyone? housing.public housing.affordable Article 2145 words, published Feb 10 2024 29 votes
Fifty years since Sweden first introduced state-funded parental leave for couples to share – pioneering policy offers some surprising lessons for other countries family parenting Article 2564 words 19 votes
Days of darkness: How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions Article 2944 words 32 votes
Specter of academic plagiarism has now reached the heart of Norwegian politics, toppling one government minister and leaving a second fighting for her political career education.higher Article 1015 words 10 votes
Canada announces cap on international students for next two years education.higher housing Article 762 words 29 votes
Goodbye to the era of the professional spouse – There are not many jobs left in which people are expected to appear, smiling and waving, by their partner’s side relationships work Link 12 votes
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