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Pro-choice activists are taking matters into their own hands.
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As we near the end of our second year of pandemic, the world grapples with yet another variant.
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There is a lot of hand-wringing about the state of US democracy. This won’t be an issue for much longer if Donald Trump gets his way.
The fossil fuel industry is rigging the system to keep winning for decades to come.
Columbia University professor John McWhorter looks at how some ideas about race have taken on the qualities of religion and have been weaponized against those who disagree.
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When it comes to producing provocateurs, misinformation, misdirection, mistrust, and disorder, even Russian troll farms have nothing on the Republican Party.
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Along with bats and lab leaks, we need to think about how a failed public health system contributed to the spread of COVID-19.