The Song That Broke the Country Charts | What Is 'Purpose Education'?

From Los Angeles to Arkansas, a growing education movement seeks to help kids find purpose in life.

At the School for Tourism and Hospitality in a low-income Bronx neighborhood, high school sophomore Isaiah was constantly distracted and unmotivated in class. Then something changed. Within a single year, he became engaged and excited, in school and at home. His teacher says the transformational change came about through a new curriculum. The program, called Project Wayfinder, encouraged Isaiah to talk about his background and his personal struggles with peers. To his surprise, he found empathy and support.

Removing Old Town Road from the country charts only made it stronger.

What happens when you combine some twangy guitar and trap beats, a meme of cowboys by the fire, a young Black innovator and a country music stalwart? An achy breaky chart.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative ends in Duisburg, despite European skepticism of the program.

The vast map of the world that hangs in Shanghai Pudong airport shows only four European cities. Three — Paris, London, Berlin — are marked with small dots. The biggest is reserved for Duisburg.

This might seem a strange choice. Stuck in Germany’s northwestern rust belt, the city is hardly a throbbing metropolis and was long a byword for industrial decline and unemployment.