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Right now, something magical is underway across vast stretches of the eastern US: The soil is beginning to erupt with trillions of periodical...
Last month, a group of families whose loved ones were killed by drivers successfully lobbied the New York state legislature to pass a law allowing...
Former President Donald Trump’s four years in the White House were, in many ways, a revolution interrupted. They transformed the federal judiciary...
There is a crisis on America’s border with Mexico. The number of people arriving there has skyrocketed in the years since the pandemic, when...
John Mulaney’s new, just-concluded Netflix comedy limited series, Everybody’s in LA, felt experimental in a number of ways. It’s not only...
If you’re into UFOs and aliens, the last five years or so have been fantastic. There’s been a big shift in the public discourse around UFOs and...
If not for the ongoing carnage in Gaza, there’s a good chance the spiral of violence between Israel and the Lebanon-based military group...
The police killing of a Black Air Force service member in his own home is drawing renewed scrutiny to the deadly violence that US law enforcement...
Over the course of a week, Miss USA Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava both relinquished their titles, marking an unprecedented...
One of the things that made Macklemore’s Gaza protest rap “Hind’s Hall” so electrifying when it dropped on May 6 is how unexpected it was. It...
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One of the things that made Macklemore’s Gaza protest rap “Hind’s Hall” so electrifying when it dropped on May 6 is how unexpected it was. It...
In the past, if you were a researcher who wanted to study a specific strand of DNA or RNA, you’d have to go through the laborious process of...
A New York case against former President Donald Trump, once considered the least important of the four criminal suits he faces, could now be the...
Twenty years ago, American celebrities like George Clooney and Ryan Gosling urged us all to “Save Darfur” from the brutal conflict and ethnic...
Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel by far, producing more particulate air pollution and global warming gasses than any other, per unit of energy. But...
Questions of how a new technology will change the way we work have only become more pressing since OpenAI’s Chat-GPT burst onto the scene in late...
If you’ve spent enough time scrolling through TikTok, you might have seen a video from an account like @tybuggyreviews, a handle with half a...
Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio...
Mexico City is parched. After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies...
Israel’s operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that houses more than a million displaced Palestinians, may have finally forced the...