The Supreme Court’s disastrous new abortion decision, explained
Federal law says that “any individual eligible for medical assistance” from a state Medicaid program may obtain that care “from...
Political violence is surging as Trump kills prevention efforts, a top security expert warns
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The “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Sinking So Republicans Are Demanding The Senate Parliamentarian Be Fired
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Book bans are getting weirder, targeting cats, dogs and civic-minded grandmas
When the Instagram account of free-expression institution PEN America dropped successive posts last week about cat and dog related books...
Senate Democrats Kill GOP’s Back Door Abortion Ban
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Is it even possible to convince people to stop eating meat?
Factory farming is a particularly wicked problem to solve.It’s a moral atrocity, involving the confinement and slaughter of hundreds of...
Christian Nationalist Military Officers Thrilled Over Iran Bombing
Remember Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation? We wrote about this back during the Iraq war. Now the...
“The Bear” gets it — we’re all burned out now
Carmy Berzatto’s self-sabotage is the featured dish on “The Bear,” but the show’s real star is time. Clocks and alarms...
AI systems could become conscious. What if they hate their lives?
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California rolls on with electric trucks, despite Trump’s roadblocks
Michael Lohscheller, president and CEO of Nikola Corporation, shows Gov. Gavin Newsom one of his company's electric big-rigs in Paramount,...
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