The Earth has never been so hot. The year 2023 was the globe’s warmest year on record. Millions of people in the mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and South are currently under heat alerts. It’s not just the US: More than 1,300 people died in Saudi Arabia during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage. Over 1,000 temperature records were broken worldwide in June. Extreme heat is […] Read more ›
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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear United States v. Skrmetti, a case asking whether laws restricting many forms of gender-affirming care for transgender patients are permissible under the Constitution and federal law. Many red states have already enacted restrictions on who may obtain such care. The plaintiffs in the Skrmetti case […] Read more ›
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For 49 years after Roe v. Wade, Americans had the right to obtain an abortion if they became pregnant. Then, two years ago, with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court put an end to it. The Biden administration and some blue states — supported by a network of nonprofits focused on reproductive […] Read more ›
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Every Pride Month, the rainbow flags come out, parades march on, and, if it’s an election year, Democratic candidates make their appeal to a growing part of the electorate: LGBTQ voters. But it’s easy to forget how modern of a development this is. That LGBTQ voters and the Democratic Party would become so closely intertwined […] Read more ›
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Close your eyes and imagine the last time you were inside a Subway. Do you see the dated storefront? The fluorescent lighting? Do you catch a whiff of that unmistakable, disturbingly sweet bread smell? Maybe there’s a group of high school kids snarfing down their subs after school. Yet, this is the very same chain […] Read more ›
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NAIROBI, Kenya – In 2008, when Mohamed Ali Mohamed was a kid growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, his cousin was shot by the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. “That made us run away,” he said. He and his grandmother walked to the border with Kenya and settled in Nairobi. As a teenager, Mohamed would wake up […] Read more ›
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How often do you think about all the ways the world could end? As the host of The Gray Area, I find myself engaged in this macabre exercise more than most. We’ve done episodes on runaway AI and climate change and extinction panics. One of the few topics we haven’t covered, however, is nuclear war. […] Read more ›
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It’s a hard time to be someone who works in the heat. Regions of the US are in the midst of record-breaking high temperatures, brought to us by a heat dome covering parts of the Midwest and Northeast. This week, approximately 270 million people will have experienced temperatures of 90 degrees or more. It’s an […] Read more ›
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One of the best beauty tips I ever read came from Mindy Kaling. In her 2015 memoir Why Not Me?, the television producer offers a list of beauty rituals she adopted as her celebrity status rose, including one that initially surprised me. “Two or three times a year, I get a spray tan,” Kaling writes. […] Read more ›
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There is good news in Friday’s Supreme Court decision in United States v. Rahimi: The Court concluded that at least some people subject to domestic violence restraining orders do not have a categorical right to own a firearm, and upheld a law preventing them from doing so. While Rahimi produced a maze of concurring and […] Read more ›
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From the outside, the policies of Israel’s government seem both brutal and inexplicably self-destructive. Its war in Gaza has claimed tens of thousands of Palestinian lives and demolished much of the physical infrastructure, like schools and hospitals, required for a society to function. Despite the massive casualties, Israeli forces have yet to bring Hamas close […] Read more ›
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There is a lot at stake in the 2024 presidential election. Ahead of the first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on June 27, we want to know: What are your questions about the election, the issues, and where the campaign stands?  On Thursday, June 27, at 1 pm, the […] Read more ›
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Across the whole world, family sizes are falling. In some rich countries they are now low enough that the populations are shrinking, and in at least some countries it’s become clear that this is a trend which does not necessarily level out anywhere. In South Korea, for instance, the average number of children per woman […] Read more ›
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Middle-age escapist fantasies involving a sexy older woman catching the attention and affection of a younger beau seem to be having something of a moment this summer. Anne Hathaway, playing 39-year-old Solène, runs off with her boy-band paramour for a tour across Europe in The Idea of You, adapted from the book of the same […] Read more ›
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The United States just experienced the busiest stretch of tornado activity in more than a decade. Scientists are now trying out new forecasting methods powered by artificial intelligence that could yield precious lead time ahead of these capricious and deadly storms.   Between April 25 and May 27, there were only two days when tornadoes didn’t […] Read more ›
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Misinformation on the internet has never been worse. Or at least that’s my analysis of it, based on vibes. People on TikTok are eating up videos saying a bunch of inaccurate things about the dangers of sunscreen, while the platform’s on-app Shop propels obscure books containing bogus cures for cancer onto the Amazon bestseller list. […] Read more ›
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Next month will see the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, the third Deadpool movie and first since Marvel Studios acquired the character, and insiders are predicting that the film will be a financial success. According to The Quorum, a firm that tracks and predicts box office numbers, Marvel should expect a $200 million opening weekend, […] Read more ›
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Honduran President Xiomara Castro recently announced plans to build a “mega prison” capable of housing 20,000 people to manage the country’s crime problem. It’s part of an increasingly popular proposition in Latin American countries — fighting drug trafficking and gang violence with harsh carceral measures — but it’s also a subversion of the rule of […] Read more ›
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It’s difficult to concisely summarize the Supreme Court’s Thursday decision in Moore v. United States, which rejects a challenge to a one-time federal tax targeting some investors in foreign corporations. But the bottom line is that Moore is bad news for anyone hoping that the Supreme Court would launch a comprehensive attack on the federal […] Read more ›
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A massive heat wave is poised to bake huge swaths of the Eastern United States and set new temperature records over the Great Lakes, New England, and the mid-Atlantic regions in the next several days, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters also expect triple-digit heat in California’s Central Valley through the weekend. As of […] Read more ›
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