Giving to charity is great, not just for the recipients but for the givers, too. But it can be intimidating to know how to pick the best charity when there are thousands of worthy causes to choose from, and especially when so many are suffering around the world. Yet that suffering makes it all the […] Read more ›
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis is a collaboration between Vox, Grist, and The 19th that examines how climate change impacts reproductive health — from menstruation to conception to birth. Explore the series here. On their very first date, Kirsti and Justin Mahon talked about wanting kids. They met on a dating […] Read more ›
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If you’ve scrolled through Instagram Stories this week, you were likely met with a single image over and over: a desert camp in front of a dramatic mountain range, filled with endless rows of colorful tents and white ones in the middle spelling out the words “All eyes on Rafah.” The image has now been […] Read more ›
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In the leaked video of a board meeting from last November, Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, part owner of the Miss Universe organization, can be heard offering her unvarnished views on the real value of diversity for the pageant she’s charged with overseeing. She muses that it will be good for the pageant’s image to allow women from […] Read more ›
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In a development that should surprise absolutely no one, Justice Samuel Alito announced in a brief letter on Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from two cases involving the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election. Alito faced widespread calls for his recusal, including from many Democratic […] Read more ›
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Last year was the hottest year humans have ever recorded. That heat fueled a number of events — heat waves, downpours, fires — reaching unprecedented scales. And their effects are still reverberating. Canada’s record-breaking fires last year continued to smolder over the winter and have begun to regain strength. Hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean […] Read more ›
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The Sympathizer, a new HBO series adapted from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, demonstrates why perspective is so important when telling historical stories of conflict and warfare. “All wars are fought twice,” an opening slide of the show reads. “The first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” That idea — penned […] Read more ›
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In the leaked video of a board meeting from last November, Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, part owner of the Miss Universe organization, can be heard offering her unvarnished views on the real value of diversity for the pageant she’s charged with overseeing. She muses that it will be good for the pageant’s image to allow women […] Read more ›
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The calls for a ceasefire in Gaza are getting louder around the world. In Canada, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly just added her voice, saying “The level of human suffering is catastrophic.” The International Court of Justice has called on Israel to immediately halt its offensive in Rafah just a few days after Spain, Norway, and […] Read more ›
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Grocery retailers would like to make an announcement: They’re listening to customers and lowering their prices. The news that Target plans to cut prices on about 5,000 everyday items — things like bread, milk, and diapers — made an especially big splash last week. But the big-box retailer wasn’t alone. In early May, grocery chain […] Read more ›
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There are many things that are unique about the United States of America, like our love of guns, really big cars, and archaic systems for electing a president. But one that tends to get overlooked is our love of college sports. And do we ever love them. There are over 520,000 college athletes in the […] Read more ›
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Sometime in the next month, the Supreme Court could grant permission for cities to more easily criminalize people experiencing homelessness. Some are eagerly awaiting that permission. In April, Donald Trump released a video declaring that if he were president, he’d ban outdoor camping in most places, erect sanctioned campsites for “treatment,” and send people to […] Read more ›
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For most of advertising history, “red” or “blue” as partisan loyalty signaled more your taste for Coke or Pepsi than your identity as Republican or Democrat. Mass markets, by definition, necessitated selling to both sides of the aisle. As with so much else, the presidency of Donald Trump — built upon a self-conceived human brand […] Read more ›
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The WNBA’s new season is off to a meteoric start, in just one sign of the momentum women’s sports currently have. In the first five WNBA games that have aired on ESPN, average viewership topped 1 million people and surpassed last year’s average by 226 percent, reports the AP’s Doug Feinberg. In-person audiences are up […] Read more ›
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On Sunday, an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza city of Rafah ignited a fire that killed dozens of civilians. The carnage was horrific even by the bloody standards set by Israel’s war: An emergency doctor on the ground told NPR that it was “one of the most horrific massacres to have occurred in recent days […] Read more ›
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The 2024 Indian election is the largest in world history: Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to cast their ballots. Administering such a giant election is an immensely difficult task, especially in a middle-income country where poverty remains all too common. There are dozens of different parties on the ballot, with all sorts of different […] Read more ›
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The story of the 2024 election is looking deeply strange. Donald Trump boasts a small but significant lead over Joe Biden in national polls, while also besting the president in most surveys of battleground states. By itself, this is less than shocking. Voters have long disapproved of the president, lamented inflation, and expressed more faith […] Read more ›
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Every American knows what the CIA is. I would guess that maybe 1 in 1,000 have ever heard of INR — the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, American diplomats’ in-house intelligence agency. But if you do know about INR, you probably know two things: INR is the Cassandra of American intelligence, and it […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump is speaking out of both sides of his mouth on abortion. On the one hand, Trump frequently claims credit for the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion — and well he should, since the three Republicans he appointed to the Supreme Court all joined the Court’s 2022 decision permitting […] Read more ›
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It wasn’t just the free shrimp that tanked Red Lobster. The Orlando-based seafood chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week citing $1 billion in debt, according to court filings. The company announced the closure of dozens of stores nationally, with plans to sell company assets — including auctioning interior furniture and kitchenware. The announcement […] Read more ›
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Just like the opening of Jennifer Lopez’s movie musical This Is Me… Now — where the multihyphenate’s unnamed character and the mysterious love of her life (played by and representing Ben Affleck) are thrown from a motorcycle in a crash that symbolically breaks her heart — the real Jennifer Lopez might be on the verge […] Read more ›
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