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Constance Kassor didn’t expect her new class on “Doing Nothing” to be such a hit. But the course, which teaches students how to relax and unplug, is now the most popular class at Lawrence University.

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America's middle class has been shrinking for the past 50 years. While middle class Americans remain the biggest income group by number of people, the same can't be said of the aggregate income earned ...

(NEXSTAR) — During election season, you’ll often hear political talking points surrounding the middle class. That may leave you wondering — are you even in the middle class? More than half of U.S.

It seems like a simple question, but it actually has a complicated answer. It depends on how you define "middle class." "It's a sense of security," says Jeffrey Wenger, senior policy researcher at the ...

Last April, I was a month out from the end of the spring semester when I read in The Chronicle about the “stunning’ level of student disconnection.” At the time, I was teaching three in-person courses ...

Ever since Bernie Sanders’s insurgent run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, a specter has haunted left-liberal debate: the specter of “class reductionism.” Left-identitarians and ...

Recently, I accidentally overdrew my checking account. That hadn’t happened to me in years—the last time was in 2008, when I was running a small business with no safety net in the middle of a ...

Modern commercial air travel pales in comparison to the pampered flying experience of the 1960s. Luxury air travel is still alive and well in the first-class cabins of the world's leading airlines.