When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war. President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday night had no grave significance. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of a point […] Read more ›
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These days, it seems as though everyone is something of a YIMBY: a “Yes in My Backyard” activist advocating for more housing and fewer barriers to making that happen. “For decades, thanks to restrictive zoning laws and increasing construction costs, we simply haven’t built enough new housing,” wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Tina Smith […] Read more ›
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In late November, a woman posted a photo of herself proudly holding her PhD thesis along with the announcement that she had successfully defended her dissertation. “Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone,” she wrote. What followed was a case study in how the online right targets and […] Read more ›
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Click here to read this story in English. VALLE DEL CAUCA, Colombia — Desde el costado de una carretera antigua que atraviesa las estribaciones de los Andes, la casa de Dora Alicia Londoño pasa desapercibida. Ubicada en una zona rural a unas dos horas de Cali, la ciudad más grande del sur de Colombia, es […] Read more ›
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South Korea is in the grip of a political crisis after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law on Tuesday — a shocking move that sparked mass protests and drew sharp rebuke from the country’s Parliament. Though Yoon has said he will reverse his declaration, that’s unlikely to end South Korea’s political problems, which go […] Read more ›
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Georgians are on the streets protesting following the government’s announcement it would pause the process to join the European Union until at least 2028. The protests come amid a greater, global power struggle over the country’s place in the world order. The protesters — as well as the European Union and the United States — are […] Read more ›
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In the last few decades, marijuana’s had a major glow-up. In 1992, less than 1 million people were using it daily or nearly every day — a low point, according to an analysis of data from the US National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which began surveying Americans in the 1970s. Ten times as […] Read more ›
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The new Netflix true crime docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey puts forth a theory that hasn’t seen a lot of defenders in recent years: that JonBenét’s family didn’t do it. The series, from veteran true crime director Joe Berlinger, takes a fresh look at the case that became arguably the biggest media sensation […] Read more ›
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March 26, 2024, was a weird day for me because it was the only one in my life where I was actively trying to get bitten by mosquitos. I had volunteered to be exposed to malaria as part of a study at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) evaluating MAM-01, an injectable drug meant to […] Read more ›
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Shortly after departing the Gates Foundation in June, Melinda French Gates surprised 12 people with a $20 million grant each. Most of them were doing work focused on helping women and girls’ mental and physical health globally — a cause she has backed for years. But one grant went to Richard Reeves, president of the American […] Read more ›
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If you want to help human beings alive right now, there are few better places to give than global health. Diseases that have been largely eradicated in the US still claim hundreds of thousands of lives abroad. In 2018, the most recent year for which there’s data, seven Americans died of malaria; all acquired it […] Read more ›
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Giving Tuesday — the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and the internationally recognized day to contribute to charity — is upon us. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has always been the kickoff event of the holiday shopping season and one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Marketing experts recognized how popular it was […] Read more ›
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If you’re reading this, chances are you care a lot about fighting climate change, and that’s great. The climate emergency threatens all of humanity. And although the world has started to make some progress on it, our global response is still extremely lacking. The trouble is, it can be genuinely hard to figure out how […] Read more ›
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If you care about animals and want to reduce their suffering, but aren’t sure exactly how, Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) is an organization that might be able to help. The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. (Disclosure: ACE has helped fund […] Read more ›
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President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, just weeks before he leaves the White House and despite previously promising not to do so. Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” and that his political opponents had undertaken an “effort to break Hunter,” […] Read more ›
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President Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter Biden for all crimes — known and unknown — that his son committed over the past 11 years. This is not a great look for a man who’s decried President-elect Donald Trump’s attacks on impartial law enforcement, declared that “No one is above the law,” and repeatedly vowed that […] Read more ›
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On Monday, the Supreme Court held an ostentatiously normal oral argument in a high-stakes case about vaping. The bottom line is that the justices appear likely to reject an attempt to undermine the Food and Drug Administration’s authority over nicotine vapes. The case is significant not because of what it means for the relationship between […] Read more ›
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There’s a code of conduct for the multiplex experience, deliberately broadcast right before a movie: When the lights start to dim, we turn off our phones and end any side discussions. However, if dispatches of Wicked screenings around the country are any indication, this code isn’t being followed. In the few days since the highly […] Read more ›
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Thanks to a new Netflix docuseries from true crime mainstay Joe Berlinger, audiences across the nation are asking a question true crime fans never really let go of. The new series, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, doesn’t actually spend all that many of its three hour-long episodes speculating about its title question. Instead, it […] Read more ›
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A year after graduating from college, Chi was adrift. She’d gone from a life of structure to one without guardrails and her mental health was declining. As a result, she distanced herself from friends and family. She left her job as a peer facilitator at a support group for people with depression and bipolar disorder […] Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump has long sought to end deportation protections for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that has significantly expanded under the Biden administration to cover over 860,000 people. He has shown no sign of relenting in a second term — and may try to either revoke those protections or let them […] Read more ›
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