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Tea Party is becoming stale.

The Tea Party’s 15 minutes is over | Gen Why Press They expected to ride the wave that brought so many extreme conservatives to win primaries and oftentimes general elections in 2010.

5 must have Spring accessories.

5 “gotta-get” accessories (According to Brad) | Gen Why Press In this month’s issue of Instyle magazine, Brad Goreski dishes about 5 “gotta-get” accessories for this Spring/Summer season. We wanted to share his 5 picks with you because we happen to agree! We added our own examples for each of his picks below…

What you can learn from that ridiculous email to rejected job applicants | Gen Why Press Are you making the seven deadly mistakes job seekers make online? Find out in our How to Get a Job online and on-demand bootcamp.

Apple makes commitment to improve Foxconn working conditions.

Apple and Foxconn address labor violations in China | Gen Why Press Many of the nifty gadgets we carry around with us often have prices larger than our wallets can hold. Somewhere in the motherboards and circuits of our electronic friends lies the sad story of a distant worker who lost their hand in the factory or of the child forced to work long hours to feed starv...

A little late, but what was the best April Fools' Day joke you were a part of or heard about?

Beauty queen rejects impotent suitor | Gen Why Press Beauty company Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) disclosed Monday that it received and rejected an unsolicited, non-binding indication of interest to purchase the company for approximately $10 billion from the much smaller, privately held Coty, Inc. The offer price of $23.25 represented a 20 percent p...

Clayton Crockett offers a "Smoker’s Manifesto for Etiquette."

The New Frontiersman: Smokers and nonsmokers lack respect for one another | Gen Why Press This pair was once as inseparable and acceptable — and American — as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but somewhere along the line a rift was born, leaving drinkers steaming ahead while smokers choked on the fumes.

What will happen after the Supreme Court decision?

Will the Supreme Court hearings mean anything? | Gen Why Press Last week, all the major headlines were about the Supreme Court oral arguments about the individual mandate, a major section of Obamacare.

Panama Canal renovations could mean renewed economic vitality.

The global impact of the Panama Canal renovation | Gen Why Press On January 7, 1914, the Panama Canal was completed by the U.S. Government under President Woodrow Wilson. Famously commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, the Canal was primarily understood by the United States as a critical step towards establishing international naval supremacy. Howe...

Apple buckles under weight of a SuperLawsuit

Apple finally fesses up to iPhone 4 issues (not) | Gen Why Press It’s been two long years but Apple is finally offering iPhone 4 owners compensation for what many saw as a defective device after a slew of class-action lawsuits. Apple has set up a website, the creatively-titled www.iphone4settlement.com, which allows iPhone 4 owners to file a claims form with Appl...

Poland pursues natural gas production.

Poland’s promise remains at surface level | Gen Why Press The hype surrounding the shale-based natural gas industry in Poland has dwindled to a mere whisper as environmental factor and government regulation have put a damper on hydraulic fracturing production.

It is the same old same old at the World Bank.

Preserving the Status Quo at the World Bank | Gen Why Press Barack Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim to be President of the World Bank is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the development industry. It is an embrace of the top-down, outdated theories that have done little to help Africa over the past sixty years. Moreover, instead of finally lettin...