Sean Rayford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWith abortion access already limited, some states are trying to impose extreme penalties for the procedure. Wyoming on Friday became the first US state to outlaw mifepristone, commonly known as the abortion pill, outside of an overall abortion ban. Wyoming’s ban is just one of several new efforts across the nation to ban access to abortion — or severely punish those who seek abortion care.... Read more ›
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Getty Images/CSA Images RFNo, you don’t need a fancy pair of binoculars to get into bird-watching, according to avid birders. Sharon Stiteler once spent two decades tracking down a stout bird known as the spruce grouse. For Stiteler, the fowl, with its black and white feathers and a striking red eyebrow, is what’s referred to in the birding world as a nemesis bird: an elusive creature that always seems to... Read more ›
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An employee at an athletic apparel store in New York on October 11, 2022. A report found that, in the US, more than 650,000 retail jobs are at risk for “degree inflation” — requiring more education than workers really need to succeed on the job. | Lanna Apisukh/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEmployers are finally tearing down the “paper ceiling” in hiring. When President Joe Biden recently touted the hundreds of billions... Read more ›
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A John Birch Society billboard in Stratton, Colorado, calls for the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, December 1962. | Denver Post via Getty ImagesThe John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP, argues historian Matthew Dallek. On December 8, 1958, a group of 12 well-to-do businessmen gathered in the living room of an upscale, Tudor-style home... Read more ›
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Trump supporters gather in front of Trump Tower during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade up 5th Ave. on March 17, 2023 in New York City. | John Lamparski/Getty ImagesThe former president told his followers to “protest” ahead of a likely indictment, summoning the specter of January 6. Former President Donald Trump on Saturday alleged via his Truth Media platform that he will be arrested on Tuesday, calling for his followers... Read more ›
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NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAn AI safety expert on why GPT-4 is just the beginning. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of GPT-4, its latest, biggest language model, only a few months after the splashy release of ChatGPT. GPT-4 was already in action — Microsoft has been using it to power Bing’s new assistant function. The people behind OpenAI have written that they think the best way to handle powerful AI... Read more ›
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Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty ImagesShips, noise, and climate change are killing whales. Here’s how to change that. It has been a bad winter for the whales. While the total number of whales washed ashore — beached — on the East Coast since January is lower than in recent years, the quick succession of deaths over the past few months is “unusual,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the body... Read more ›
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The US is struggling to deploy fast-charging stations as electric cars grow more popular. | Julian Stratenschulte/Picture Alliance via Getty ImagesElectric car owners are finding out how hard it can be to charge EVs at public charging stations. A loud pop echoed through the Walmart parking lot, an alarming sign that something was wrong. Cass Tippit had plugged his 2017 Chevrolet Bolt into an Electrify America public charging station in... Read more ›
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A worker organizes food on shelves at the West Alabama Food Bank in Northport, Alabama, on March 28, 2022. | Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Republican fight over SNAP benefits has deep historical roots. At the onset of the pandemic, as tens of millions of Americans found themselves suddenly out of work and food bank lines stretched for miles, Congress passed lifeline legislation to keep people in distress fed. The... Read more ›
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An eyewear market above the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, on February 6, 2023. | Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA new analysis on Covid-19 origins has promise, but only the Chinese government can end the debate. There’s one entity that is best poised to answer one of the most important scientific questions of our time: How did the Covid-19 pandemic originate? And it’s not the virologists scouring genetic data... Read more ›
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Asian Americans gathered at the Times Square to protest Asian hate in New York City on March 16, 2023. | Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThe FBI’s supplemental hate crimes data for 2021 shows bias-motivated attacks rose to the highest level on record. A new FBI report on hate crimes this week had disturbing news: The number of such crimes reported in the United States rose between 2020 and 2021,... Read more ›
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers speech during the congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSSP) on March 16, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. Putin met top Russian businessmen and billionaires to talk about economic problems resulting from the sanctions brought about by the military invasion of Ukraine. | Contributor/Getty ImagesIt alleges he is responsible for the unlawful transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian territory. The International Criminal Court has... Read more ›
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Mary Atieno, a 17-year-old mother to be from Kibera Slum, poses dressed in her school uniform on October 10, 2022, in Nairobi, Kenya. | Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty ImagesHow do we ensure no person dies as a result of bringing life into this world? In 2018, a hospital in Kenya admitted Ashley Muteti, who was 25 at the time, for a month. Muteti, who was over six months pregnant with what was... Read more ›
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Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA list circulated in January by the distributor to Walgreens and CVS underscores the uncertainty surrounding abortion pills in the post-Roe era. Earlier this month, Politico broke news that Walgreens, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain, assured 21 Republican attorneys general that it would not dispense abortion pills in their states should the company be approved to dispense them. The decision was met with sharp protest by Walgreens customers,... Read more ›
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HBOIs it ever justified to kill one person to save many others? The season finale of HBO’s The Last of Us — based on the video game of the same name — thrust a longstanding philosophical question into the cultural spotlight: Is it ever ethical to kill one person for the well-being of many others? If you haven’t seen the show or played the game, a real species of fungus... Read more ›
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A woman equipped with a brain-computer interface, one form of neurotechnology. | Florian Voggeneder/Guger Technologies/APNeurotechnology is upon us. Your brain urgently needs new rights. If you’ve ever wished your brain was more user-friendly, neurotechnology might seem like a dream come true. It’s all about offering you ways to hack your brain, getting it to do more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. There are “nootropics”... Read more ›
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Judy Unger/Getty ImagesTwo new books, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care, offer a framework for thinking about the world beyond capitalism. One of the peculiarities of life during lockdown was that time seemed to melt and become liquid. Days expanded to last for years; weeks rippled like stones were skipping across their surface. The chronological markers that we were used to vanished in those years indoors, and... Read more ›
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Carol Berman speaks with pedestrians about Medicare Advantage benefits during the Coalition for Medicare Choices’ Medicare Advantage Food Truck stop in Washington on March 9, 2015. | Bill Clark/CQ Roll CallThe enormous success of Medicare Advantage — and the potential risks — explained. Medicare is undergoing a subtle but fundamental transformation from government program to public benefit provided by private companies, a shift with major implications for both patients and... Read more ›
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Getty ImagesPrices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits. Ordinary Americans have been watching their grocery bills climb to new heights as prices rise on cereals, meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables — virtually everything we eat. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the price of food for home consumption rose by 11.4 percent last year — the highest yearly percent change since 1974 – and it’s expected... Read more ›
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, South Korea, on November 15, 2022. | SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMicrosoft and Google are rolling out AI features to write your memos and emails for you. But they’re far from perfect. Microsoft is adding new AI features to its popular apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. The new set of tools, called Microsoft 365 Copilot, will let... Read more ›
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