It's getting harder to join the 1% in America. You'd need to make at least $515,371 a year to be in the top 1% of taxpayers in 2017, the most recent year for which data is currently available, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data by Bloomberg's Alexandre Tanzi and Ben Steverman found. That's 7.2% higher than the year before. No more recent data has been released, Bloomberg said.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s infamous pot-smoking incident last year prompted NASA to order a mandatory review of the federal contractor’s workplace culture — but taxpayers, not the company, are bearing the cost, according to contracting records reviewed by POLITICO.

Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.

Uber raised eyebrows last month when its chief lawyer asserted that “drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business” in a call laying out the company’s resistance to a California bill that would alter the employment status of many gig workers.

The hashtag deletefacebook is trending on social media after it emerged Mark Zuckerberg held informal dinners with conservative politicians and right-wing commentators in the US. The meetings began in July, the news website Politico reported. In a post on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg said he had "dinners with lots of people across the spectrum".

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says it's against a proposed ban in Utah of so-called conversion therapy by psychologists for LGBTQ minors, reports the CBS affililiate here, KUTV. In a statement released Tuesday night, the church said it opposes a pending state regulation that would bar psychologists from using the therapy, which seeks to change the sexual orientation of those minors.

A Milwaukee County Park has a new name. Columbus Park is now Indigenous Peoples' Park. The new signage was unveiled Monday morning, and it's all part of a bigger movement nationwide to dismantle Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Elites are finding more ways to ensure that their children never run out of chances to fail.

If your company is still grappling with Europe's data protection laws, then watch out. You'll soon have American data protection laws to deal with, too.

If he can’t be indicted, and if he can dictate his own terms to Congress — as the White House counsel suggests — then the president is saying that he’s something other than a president.

A New York Times columnist outlined the ways in which race and "white guilt" are playing a role in the 2020 Democratic primary.

The fear of gun control in the United States might be one of the leading drivers behind people's tendency to purchase firearms after a mass shooting

We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.

Officials rescued Floyd, a 190-pound, 3-year-old Mastiff, and his owner on a trail in Millcreek Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, after several hikers called to report that the two were unable to move.

"Just because it's not the state doesn't mean that there isn't harmful impacts that could come if you have one or two large companies monitoring or tracking everything you do," says Christopher Wylie.

George W. Bush is not a “kind, sweet man.” There is nothing “beautiful” about him. He was a monster as governor of Texas and a monster as president.

There aren’t enough synonyms for “cowardly” to capture the craven pusillanimity of America’s corporate capitalists who have abjectly prostrated themselves before Chinese government censors. Those spineless weaklings whose expense accounts tower over their atrophied consciences have shamed themselves and their country.

For 17 years, the office of Jackie Jackson-Dean has featured a familiar ornament of welcome: a safe space sticker, adorned with stars, a rainbow motif and an implicit message. “I want these kids to be able to come to school,” she says, “and feel like at least one person here is safe to talk to.”

It could really boost voter turnout.

Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff is calling for the establishment of a “new capitalism” that’s paid for in part by taxing billionaires like himself. In an op-ed in The New York Times published Monday, Benioff said businesses should focus less on profits and more on their impact on society, while using their power to help advance important causes, like the creation of a national privacy law and fighting climate change.