July 18, 2025

Why do so many American workers feel guilty about taking the vacation they’ve earned?

Here are just a few of the responses to questions I asked during a study I conducted on vacation guilt among American workers.

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Expert finds access to high-paying jobs—not unequal pay for the same job—is the biggest driver of immigrant wage gaps

Immigrants in the United States earn 10.6% less than similarly educated U.S.-born workers, largely because they are concentrated in lower-paying industries, occupations and companies, according to a major new study published in Nature, co-authored by [...]
Taliban ‘maintaining a balancing act’ in relationships with other local jihadi groups, study shows

Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows.This post was originally published on this site
Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilizations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it

We’re just a few months into US president Donald Trump’s second term but his rule has already been repeatedly compared to tyranny.This post was originally published on this site
Beyond health: The political effects of infectious disease outbreaks

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing to mind similarly impactful events like the Black Plague in early modern Europe or the Spanish Flu after World [...]
Health-impaired world leaders raise nuclear war fears, study suggests

Many former leaders of the world’s nine nuclear-armed nations were impaired by health conditions while in office, raising concerns over their decision-making abilities while they had access to nuclear weapon launch codes, a study from [...]
Mathematicians reveal factors driving gun sales in America

As gun sales in the United States continue to soar, researchers at Georgia State University have uncovered insights into what drives Americans to buy firearms. A new study published in PNAS Nexus journal reveals the [...]
Doing business in conflict zones: What companies can learn from Lafarge’s exit from Syria

The world experienced more than 60 armed conflicts in 2024, a “historically high” number according to scholars in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Consequently, the risks faced by multinational companies [...]
Reading news on social media for two weeks improves knowledge and fake news recognition, study finds

Consuming news on social media is often associated with “doom scrolling,” where people spend excessive time online consuming negative news. However, researchers have found that this same behavior, when leveraged effectively, can help foster a [...]
Do local voting rights affect migrants’ participation in protests?

In research published in Social Science Quarterly, the study’s investigator expected that migrants living in cities where local voting rights are extended to non-citizens would be more likely to engage in protests compared with those [...]
Perceived polarization may reflect inner circle agreement more than actual societal division

Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) in Vienna and [...]