SpaceX plans to send four people into Earth orbit as soon as Wednesday in a daring mission that will test new technology, expose astronauts to high levels of radiation, and potentially change how future spacewalks are conducted. The privately funded mission, called Polaris Dawn, will be led by billionaire Jared Isaacman, who participated in and […] Read more ›
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Three weeks ago, Ukraine’s military launched a stunning operation to take the war in Ukraine back onto the territory of the country that launched it. Three weeks later, the Ukrainians still occupy hundreds of miles of territory in Russia’s western Kursk region.  The incursion had a number of goals: to force Russia to divert its […] Read more ›
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Immigration has loomed large over the presidential election. After going on the offensive against former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in 2020, the Democratic Party has seen public opinion shift in recent years, with more people taking a dim view of immigration and favoring more restrictive border policies. Trump has pounced on this shift, promising […] Read more ›
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Before the era of Donald Trump, the right’s very online radicals yelled at the Republican Party from the cheap seats. Now, they’ve become players within the conservative power structure, as the walls that once kept them at bay have crumbled. The Republican nominee for vice president has explicitly cited a neo-monarchist blogger as an influence […] Read more ›
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Pavel Durov, the CEO and founder of messaging app Telegram, was detained in Paris on Saturday as part of an ongoing French investigation into financial and cyber crimes. On Monday, French officials said he remains under arrest, though he has not been charged with any crime. French President Emmanuel Macron denied the arrest was politically […] Read more ›
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Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services is the sort of case that keeps health policy wonks up late at night. On the surface, it involves a relatively low-stakes fight over abortion. The Biden administration requires recipients of federal Title X grants — a federal program that funds family-planning services — to present patients […] Read more ›
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You probably haven’t heard of cardiologist Don Poldermans, but experts who study scientific misconduct believe that thousands of people may be dead because of him. Poldermans was a prolific medical researcher at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, where he analyzed the standards of care for cardiac events after surgery, publishing a series of definitive […] Read more ›
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It’s bachelorette season in America. A couple of months ago, I was at one such party in Florida: nine women, one house, a zillion group activities to get dressed for. And something strange started to happen. Almost every time I complimented someone’s outfit — a cute jumpsuit or matching set — inevitably the response was: […] Read more ›
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As the frontier of artificial intelligence advances at a breakneck pace, the US government is struggling to keep up. Working on AI policy in Washington, DC, I can tell you that before we can decide how to govern frontier AI systems, we first need to see them clearly. Right now, we’re navigating in a fog. […] Read more ›
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Climate change remains a major platform issue for Democrats, but you’d hardly know it listening to the hours of speeches at the Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago. Vice President Kamala Harris, accepting her party’s nomination for president, gave a brief nod to the fundamental freedom to “live free from the pollution that fuels […] Read more ›
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Last fall, a reader asked me what they could really do, as one person, to aid people living on the streets. “I often feel helpless to enact change,” they wrote. I’d been covering homelessness in America and knew that even the sprawling support organizations that have been working on outreach for decades had failed to […] Read more ›
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Few things have bedeviled education policy researchers in the US more than public school teacher strikes, driven by educators on the vanguard of resurging labor activism. While union membership nationwide continues to decline, nearly one in five union members in the US is a public school teacher — and their high-profile, disruptive strikes generate significant media […] Read more ›
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For the first time, the federal government has negotiated directly with pharmaceutical companies over the prices for a handful of drugs. The new prices, which were announced mid-August, take effect in January 2026, and they will help the Medicare program cap what individual patients spend out of pocket on their prescriptions in a year at […] Read more ›
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This post contains mild spoilers regarding the outcome of the couples of Love Is Blind: UK In 1776, desiring independence and freedom, Americans overthrew British rule. Roughly 250 years later, we have finally enacted a singular revenge for English domination: subjecting them to the distinctly American cultural and romantic exercise known as Love Is Blind.   […] Read more ›
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The latest chapter of Sabrina Carpenter’s quest to become the most prolific 4’11” person on the planet is a new album. The singer, famous for working late, released Short n’ Sweet, a 12-song pop confection brimming with playfulness and humor. To celebrate, Carpenter released a video for “Taste,” a sugary rock tune about the poor, […] Read more ›
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On Thursday, a new Covid-19 vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and Americans should be able to access the new shots in the next few days. The vaccines come amid one of the worst Covid waves of the last two years. And while dangerous outcomes like hospitalization and death are nowhere near […] Read more ›
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Arguably the weirdest candidate of the 2024 election is effectively ending his presidential campaign. Following a controversy-filled campaign that included revelations that a worm had eaten part of his brain and that he was responsible for the bear carcass that mysteriously appeared in Central Park in 2014, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he is […] Read more ›
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Canada’s two main rail lines locked out rail workers early Thursday morning amid tense contract negotiations between the railways and the Canada Teamsters Rail Conference, which represents nearly 10,000 rail workers. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would resolve the dispute, and late Thursday, officials ordered the two sides to enter arbitration proceedings. […] Read more ›
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As Vice President Kamala Harris reintroduced herself to the nation and laid out her case against Donald Trump, her opponent was, essentially, live-tweeting a political freakout. “IS SHE TALKING ABOUT ME?” the former president and Republican presidential nominee posted on his platform Truth Social about 20 minutes into Harris’s acceptance speech. That was about the […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday, a Trump judge in Kansas ruled that the Second Amendment invalidates criminal charges against a defendant charged with illegally possessing a machine gun. The case is United States v. Morgan. Judge John Broomes’s decision in Morgan is obviously wrong, even under the Supreme Court’s most aggressively pro-gun opinion, which Broomes relied on heavily. […] Read more ›
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