HarperCollins Union Ratifies Three-Year Contract With $52,500 Floor
UAW Local 2110 members at HarperCollins ratified a three-year contract on February 16, 2026, with a $52,500 starting salary floor.
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Stuff Your Kindle Day Returns on August 10, 2026
99 ebooks from Romance Bookworms — how to join, what to check, and the September event.
Why Gouache Illustration Keeps Pulling Illustrators Back to the Brush
Why gouache illustration is winning artists back: opaque, rewettable, matte colour that scans flat and true, unlike watercolour or acrylic.
Four Englishes: Choosing a Translation of Crime and Punishment
Which translation of Crime and Punishment should you read? Garnett (1914), McDuff (1991), Pevear & Volokhonsky (2002), and Ready (2014) compared.
Gallery etiquette for first-timers
Gallery etiquette for first-time visitors: free entry, asking prices, bags, photography rules and how to look again and leave without buying anything.
Notre-Dame Opens a €130 Million Drive for Its Final Restoration Phase
Notre-Dame’s final restoration phase (2027–2033) needs €150 million; €20 million is secured and a €130 million donation campaign has opened.
Fed's July Hold Extends the Plateau: Three Straight at 3.50–3.75%
75% plateau to three meetings — model flat rates and keep cash discipline.
The savings rate fell, debt rose, and the economy shrugged — so far
Households spent pandemic savings and borrowed to keep the expansion going. The data, the delinquency picture, and the real trigger.
Why Companies Go Private in Leveraged Buyouts
LBOs buy public companies with their own borrowed future cash flow — 50 to 70 percent debt. The arithmetic, stakeholders, and what happens when it fails.
Women-owned farm businesses keep growing, census data shows
Women were 36 percent of US producers and 40 percent of beginning farmers in the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Women-owned farm business growth explained.
Sustainable cadence: how creators publish for years without burning out
How creators publish for years without burnout: cadence set like a budget, formats that rest, announced seasonal breaks, and P&L-driven pacing instead of
Should the Federal Minimum Wage Rise? Both Sides' Best Case
25? The evidence on jobs and poverty, state experiments, and each side's strongest case.
How a Country Gets Recognized: Law's Quietest Revolution
How new states get recognized: Montevideo criteria, the Kosovo and Palestine files, Security Council gates and the politics of statehood.
Perplexity's answer to publishers: revenue share instead of lawsuits
Two models of AI publisher payment: OpenAI's flat-fee licenses versus Perplexity's revenue-share program
Industrial policy is now bipartisan default
US industrial policy after the 2026 ruling: the bipartisan toolkit, critiques, and what sets what comes next.
The Evidence Act, Seven Years On: Slow Progress, Real Infrastructure
The 2018 Evidence Act built real data infrastructure — chief data officers, learning agendas, inventories — while data quality and evaluation capacity lag.
Why Credit Lines Are Established Before You Need Them
Lenders ration credit exactly when applications rise — why the undrawn standby line is set up in strong quarters, and how to size and hold it.
The Pardon Power: Broad, Unreviewable and Full of Unwritten Rules
The presidential pardon power explained: Article II's limits, the Pardon Attorney process, commutation types and the unreviewability courts keep affirming.
How to Cover the Local Housing Market With Public Data Nobody Else Reads
Permits, assessments, deeds, and HUD datasets turn local housing coverage into numbers: a monthly routine a one-reporter desk can run with a spreadsheet.
How Critical Minerals Agreements Reshape Trade Blocs
-Japan template, the Minerals Security Partnership, IRA linkage, and producer countries' leverage.
The Retraining Pledges AI Left Behind
Tech companies pledged billions to reskill the AI-displaced. The documented record on what arrived, who benefited, and what works.
Arbitration Clauses Explained: FAA Rules, Forum Choice and Class Action Waivers
Arbitration clauses explained: FAA enforcement, drafting levers from rules to seat, class action waivers under Concepcion, and when courts refuse to enforce.
NAEP Long-Term Trend 2026: Nine-Year-Olds Gain While Teen Scores Stall
NAEP Long-Term Trend results released June 10, 2026 show nine-year-olds gaining in math and reading while thirteen-year-olds' scores stay flat since 2023.
When animal studies fail to translate
Around nine in ten drug candidates entering human trials fail there. Why animal results so rarely translate, and how to read them.
How to Build a Morning Routine That Survives the School Year
How to build a school morning routine that survives the year: night-before checklists, honest timing, sleep math, and rules for kids and teens.
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