The younger brother fares better than most, landing a job as a nurse at a hospital, but isn’t immune from discrimination. At work he feels like a puppet, “playing assistant butcher for guys stupider than me, born in a different universe who treated me like Uncle Tom on some Alabama …

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden reacts during a campaign Community Event at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, U.S., August 24, 2019. Elizabeth Frantz | REUTERS Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released his higher education plan on Tuesday, proposing to make two-year community …

Fast-food stocks have been gobbled up in the past year. Shake Shack, McDonald’s, and Yum Brands have soared past the rest of the market in the past 12 months, while top performer Chipotle has roared more than 80% higher. “When you look at all these fast-food stocks, they’ve all been …

SHANGHAI, CHINA: A woman checks out the lipsticks at a department store in Shanghai, 16 August 2004. LIU JIN | AFP | Getty Images China is the biggest driver of the outsized revenue that the beauty industry has seen in the past few years, according to a new report by …

Small caps just flashed a warning sign. The IWM Russell 2000 ETF, which tracks small-cap stocks, just entered a death cross where its shorter-term 50-day moving average moved below its longer-term 200-day moving average. This typically marks a quickly decelerating trend. The last time it entered a death cross, in …

UNFOLLOW A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist ChurchBy Megan Phelps-Roper In 1991, a breakaway church in Topeka, Kan., began picketing at a nearby park popular with gay men. Holding handmade signs that read “Gays Are Worthy of Death (ROM. 1:32),” members of the Westboro Baptist Church began …

There is massive income inequality in the in the U.S. and in the world, and everyone from political candidates to billionaires are talking about it. A recent global wealth ranking Bloomberg Businessweek put a fine point on it. The ranking gives everyone in the world a “wealth number,” from -2 …

In the early 1950s, the divided city of Berlin teemed with intelligence agents, all trying to keep a leg up for their side in the Cold War. In the midst of this activity, American and British operatives planned to dig a tunnel underneath the city, to intercept communications headed to …

Here are the most important things to know about Tuesday before you hit the door. 1. Fed chair Powell speaks We’ll hear from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for the first time since key economic data was reported. Last week, the odds of an October interest rate cut soared above …

The U.S. jobs market’s resilience is not extending to wages, which fell in September for the first time in two years as companies still aren’t ready to meet a tight labor market with higher pay and workers still are not demanding more. While the September nonfarm payrolls report showed that …