What we are reading December 17, 2025
Paper checks are going away and women are not happy in South Korea. These are the big headlines this week.
Could paper checks be on the way out, like the penny? | CNN Business
First the penny. Next, paper checks?
Chris Isidore
‘A woman is not a baby-making machine’: a brief history of South Korea’s 4B movement – and why it’s making waves in America
In South Korea, a growing number of young women are rejecting expectations of marriage, motherhood and heterosexual relationships, known as the ‘4B Movement’ or the ‘4 Nos’.
Ming Gao
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested in Iran
Mohammadi’s relative tells TIME the Nobel Peace Prize laureate was “forced into a car by security agents.”
Karl Vick
Who Looks Like They Belong in America?
America treats belonging as something Latinos must earn—rather than something they already possess, says David Alvarado.
David Alvarado
The solution to America’s affordability problem might be broken, too | CNN Business
The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week.
David Goldman
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