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8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them

Right now, something magical is underway across vast stretches of the eastern US: The soil is beginning to erupt with trillions of periodical...

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Benji Jones

Speed limits are too darn high

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...

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Marin Cogan

The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary

Former President Donald Trump’s four years in the White House were, in many ways, a revolution interrupted. They transformed the federal judiciary...

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Ian Millhiser

Who’s the father? For these baby animals, one doesn’t exist.

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Byrd Pinkerton

America’s misunderstood border crisis, in 8 charts

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...

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Nicole Narea

How to fight without ruining a relationship

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Allie Volpe

So, what was the point of John Mulaney’s live Netflix talk show?

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...

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Aja Romano

UFOs, God, and the edge of understanding

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...

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Sean Illing

Israel’s other war

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...

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Joshua Keating

What we know about the police killing of Black Air Force member Roger Fortson

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...

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Li Zhou

Inside the bombshell scandal that prompted two Miss USAs to step down

Over the course of a week, Miss USA Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava both relinquished their titles, marking an unprecedented...

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Constance Grady

Macklemore’s anthem for Gaza is a rarity: A protest song in an era of apolitical music

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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Aja Romano

How to listen to Today, Explained on the radio

You can listen to Today, Explained on many local public radio stations across the US, with more being added all the time. We have partnered with...

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Macklemore’s anthem for Gaza is a rarity — a protest song in an era of apolitical music

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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Aja Romano

How the White House just made the world a little safer from biorisks

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...

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Kelsey Piper

The Trump hush money case has been a quiet affair. Enter Stormy Daniels.

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...

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Li Zhou

Armed groups are likely committing ethnic cleansings and atrocities in Darfur — again

Twenty years ago, American celebrities like George Clooney and Ryan Gosling urged us all to “Save Darfur” from the brutal conflict and ethnic...

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Ellen Ioanes

Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency

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...

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Umair Irfan

What a Zoom cashier 8,000 miles away can tell us about the future of work

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...

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Whizy Kim

Social media platforms aren’t equipped to handle the negative effects of their algorithms abroad. Neither is the law.

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Tiffany Ng

How TikTok Shop ads turned an obscure, inaccurate book into a bestseller

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...

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A.w. Ohlheiser

Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?

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...

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Christophe Haubursin

North America’s biggest city is running out of water

Mexico City is parched. After abysmally low amounts of rainfall over the last few years, the reservoirs of the Cutzamala water system that supplies...

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Caroline Houck

The US paused a weapons shipment to Israel. Is it a real shift in policy?

Israel’s operation in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza that houses more than a million displaced Palestinians, may have finally forced the...

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Nicole Narea

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