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How political gridlock could kill the best global health program the US ever passed

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US President George W. Bush holds a child as Bishop Paul Yowakim (L) looks on after...
US President George W. Bush holds a child as Bishop Paul Yowakim (L) looks on after speaking on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 30 May 2007 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Relief Plan for AIDS Relief, is a rough...
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The Iowa caucuses only matter because people believe they matter

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Supporters attend a rally for Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump at a middle...
Supporters attend a rally for Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump at a middle school in Clinton, Iowa, on January 6, 2024. Getty Images Polls show Donald Trump as the clear favorite to win the GOP Iowa caucuses on Monday, January 15. But the true stakes of the contest are about more t...
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Who is Bill Ackman and why is he so mad?

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Bill Ackman is the billionaire founder of a hedge fund who has recently become a central...
Bill Ackman is the billionaire founder of a hedge fund who has recently become a central figure in two plagiarism scandals. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has a lot of opinions, and he’s going to make sure you hear them. How Ackman came to be a main character at the center of not one bu...
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The Supreme Court will decide what cities can do about tent encampments

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Tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Oregon. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo The Supreme...
Tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Oregon. Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo The Supreme Court announced on Friday it would hear a pivotal case that could transform homelessness policy in the United States. The case is the most significant legal challenge to the rights of homeless people in decades, and ho...
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Seriously, what is Aaron Rodgers’s deal?

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Aaron Rodgers belongs in the Hall of Fame of football — not so much of opinions....
Aaron Rodgers belongs in the Hall of Fame of football — not so much of opinions. Kathryn Riley/Getty Images The first time I found myself wondering what the deal was with Aaron Rodgers was when his brother Jordan appeared on season 12 of The Bachelorette, which aired back in 2016. The quarterback skipped the all-imp...
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How a Yemeni rebel group is creating chaos in the global economy

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A screen grab captured from a video shows Yemen’s Houthi fighters’ takeover of the cargo ship...
A screen grab captured from a video shows Yemen’s Houthi fighters’ takeover of the cargo ship Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea on November 20, 2023. Houthi Movement via Getty Images Container ship captains who make the run between Europe and Asia are about to become reacquainted with the Cape of Good Hope, making a long...
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There are too many chatbots

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On Wednesday, OpenAI announced an online storefront called the GPT Store that lets people share custom...
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced an online storefront called the GPT Store that lets people share custom versions of ChatGPT. It’s like an app store for chatbots, except that unlike the apps on your phone, these chatbots can be created by almost anyone with a few simple text prompts. Over the past couple of months, pe...
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The world is dying to know the secret Selena Gomez told Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes

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Selena Gomez tells her famous friend Taylor Swift a secret that might or might not involve...
Selena Gomez tells her famous friend Taylor Swift a secret that might or might not involve Kylie Jenner forbidding her to take a pic with her boyfriend Timothée Chalamet! Christopher Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Images The open secret about — and half the fun of — the Golden Globes is that it...
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My year of Dry January

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Are you a headache person? You don’t have to suffer in silence.

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Back when I was in medical training, I saw patients in a primary care clinic twice...
Back when I was in medical training, I saw patients in a primary care clinic twice a week. Many mentioned they had headaches, and the first question I asked each of them, as I was trained to do, was “Are you a headache person?” I always opened with that because while everybody gets a headache now and then, people wh...
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Do we really live in an "age of inequality"?

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These rich people are in the UK but this article is about inequality in the US....
These rich people are in the UK but this article is about inequality in the US. In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images In recent weeks, a major debate has gripped the field of economics, one with significant policy stakes. In one sense, the debate is about the nature and extent of inequality in the US: are the ric...
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A new Supreme Court case about flooding has weirdly high stakes for Donald Trump

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Aerial photo taken on September 1, 2017, shows flooded houses after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas....
Aerial photo taken on September 1, 2017, shows flooded houses after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas. Yin Bogu/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images On the surface, the issues presented by Devillier v. Texas — a Supreme Court case brought by Texas landowners who claim the state should compensate them for flooding o...
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Trump says a lot of stuff about the economy. What would he actually do?

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Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, on December 17, 2023. Photo...
Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, on December 17, 2023. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 2024 is here and, with it, elections. Wild, frankly! Must we? We must. Given this less-than-fun fact, it would probably be useful to understand what the front-running presidential candidates...
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3 winners and 2 losers from the fifth Republican debate

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Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the...
Republican presidential candidates Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University on January 10, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If you somehow avoided watching the Ron DeS...
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All the Republicans running for president in 2024, explained

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Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other...
Donald Trump remains the overwhelming favorite of GOP primary voters. But that hasn’t stopped several other candidates from staying in the race for the Republican nomination in the hopes that they can somehow dethrone him. The former president, who announced his candidacy in November, has been increasingly dominant ...
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Is Nikki Haley for real?

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Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her...
Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event to launch her presidential bid, at the Charleston Visitor Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 15, 2023. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump leads polls overwhelmingly, Ron DeSantis has gone down in flames, and various o...
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The Stanley water bottle craze, explained

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According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup...
According to professional hockey players, the Stanley Cup is the be-all and end-all. Winning the cup is the highest possible accomplishment — proof of hard work and teamwork coupled with enormous fortune. It’s the achievement of a lifetime that only a select few get to experience. According to the internet, the Stan...
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Want to understand American views on Israel? Take a look at this 1958 novel.

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When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus...
When I was 12 or 13, I found a copy of Leon Uris’s 1958 novel Exodus in my synagogue’s library. I stood amid the shelves, surreptitiously reading a sex scene (did the book just fall open right to it, the way every copy of Judy Blume’s Forever did at Chapter 12?) in which the passionate, long-legged, redheaded Jordan...
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Why so many kids are still missing school

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When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to...
When schools reopened their doors after the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, eager to “return to normal,” millions of students didn’t show up. Teachers prepared their classrooms to welcome children back to in-person learning, but millions of desks were unfilled. With an eye toward pandemic recovery, the government all...
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Are $18 Big Macs the price of falling inequality?

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A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Over...
A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical question facing the American left today: Is grousing about the price of a Big Mac counterrevolutionary? For months now, poli...
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The shocking Boeing 737 incident, briefly explained

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In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of...
In this National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. NTSB/Getty Images On Friday, January 5, the door plug of a commercial Boeing 737 Max 9 came off as the plane was climbing, opening a...
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Yes, everyone is sick right now. So what can you do about it?

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CSA Images via Getty Images Does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now?...
CSA Images via Getty Images Does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? It’s not your imagination: It’s been a particularly fierce season for all kinds of respiratory infections, from mild colds to more serious bugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care visits for...
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Behind Iraq’s call to remove US-led forces

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a press conference with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani attends a press conference with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (not pictured) in Baghdad on December 28, 2023. Thaier Al-Sudani/AFP via Getty Images Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced Friday he will remove about 900 US-led coalition forces from ...
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The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects are

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference on reducing shoplifting. Barry Williams/NY...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a press conference on reducing shoplifting. Barry Williams/NY Daily News via Getty Images Over the last couple of years, it seemed that America was experiencing a shoplifting epidemic. Videos of people brazenly stealing merchandise from retailers often went viral; chains ...
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