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5 lessons from the Arab Spring
The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time…
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The technology that runs Congress lags so far behind the modern world that its flag-tracking system just caught up to 2017-era Pizza Hut
On a typical day, you can’t turn on the news without hearing someone say that…
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President Trump promises to make government efficient − and he’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others
As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first…
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the…
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US Supreme Court is unabashedly liberal − in its writing style
The current Supreme Court has upended historic precedent on abortion protections and drawn scrutiny for…
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Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is…
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Reproductive health care faces legal and surveillance challenges post-Roe – new research offers guidance
Long before Roe v. Wade was overturned, reproductive justice advocates had been sounding the alarm…
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Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and…
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Health and Human Services secretary influences every aspect of America’s health
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant…
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Many more older people are leaving prison and face unmet needs for housing and health care − as well as a tangle of groups trying to help
American prisons are rapidly graying. Following decades of mass incarceration, exacerbated by the U.S. war…