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The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

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Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous. Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on...
Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous. Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford, producer of the iconic Model T a century ago, no longer sells any sedans in its home market.) Bulky SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselv...
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We could be heading into the hottest summer of our lives

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The US approved a Texas power emergency as a blackout threat loomed due to a brutal...
The US approved a Texas power emergency as a blackout threat loomed due to a brutal heat wave in fall 2023. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images The United States could be in for another scorcher this summer, per a new study from the National Weather Service (NWS). And that could mean more extreme weather events...
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How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history

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George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel...
George Washington University students camp out on campus to demand that their university divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza, on April 25, 2024, in Washington, DC, United States. Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Protests against the war in Gaza have spread to college campuses across the countr...
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You need $500. How should you get it?

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So you’ve found research fraud. Now what?

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Carolyn Fong/The Washington Post via Getty Images When it is alleged that a scientist has manipulated...
Carolyn Fong/The Washington Post via Getty Images When it is alleged that a scientist has manipulated data behind their published papers, there’s an important but miserable project ahead: looking through the rest of their published work to see if any of that is fabricated as well. After dishonesty researcher Frances...
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How JoJo Siwa’s "rebrand" got so messy

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JoJo Siwa performs at Miami Beach Pride Festival on April 14, 2024. Sean Drakes/Getty Images It’s...
JoJo Siwa performs at Miami Beach Pride Festival on April 14, 2024. Sean Drakes/Getty Images It’s a Hollywood cliche, but unfortunately true, that talented children rarely have it easy transitioning their careers into adulthood, much less transitioning to adulthood themselves. The recent string of controversies arou...
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Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech

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Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest...
Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus following last week’s arrest of more than 100 protesters, on April 25, 2024 in New York City. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Student protests are heating up around the country, just as the school year is winding down. At ...
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The end of coral reefs as we know them

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More than five years ago, the world’s top climate scientists made a frightening prediction: If the...
More than five years ago, the world’s top climate scientists made a frightening prediction: If the planet warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius, relative to preindustrial times, 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs globally would die off. At 2°C, that number jumps to more than 99 percent. These researchers were essentially descri...
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Is Fallout a warning for our future? A global catastrophic risk expert weighs in.

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Ella Purnell as Lucy in Fallout. JoJo Whilden/Prime Video Between the crumbling of trust in our...
Ella Purnell as Lucy in Fallout. JoJo Whilden/Prime Video Between the crumbling of trust in our institutions and escalating global conflict, dystopia feels deeply familiar in today’s world. Though there are people and organizations who are working to keep the globe and our humanity intact, it’s normal for us to thin...
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Donald Trump had a fantastic day in the Supreme Court today

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Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed on the Supreme Court....
Then-President Donald Trump shakes hands with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Trump placed on the Supreme Court. Getty Images Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution ...
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Bird flu in milk is alarming — but not for the reason you think

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Dairy cows at an operation in Lodi, California, in 2020. Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via...
Dairy cows at an operation in Lodi, California, in 2020. Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Bird flu has had a busy couple of years. Since 2022, it’s ravaged the US poultry industry, as more than 90 million farmed birds — mostly egg-laying hens and turkeys — have either died from the viru...
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Lawmakers are overreacting to crime

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Members of the US Army National Guard patrolling Penn Station in New York City. Kena Betancur/AFP...
Members of the US Army National Guard patrolling Penn Station in New York City. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images When it comes to public safety, lawmakers have two primary jobs: enacting policies that curb crime and making their constituents feel safe. It might seem like those two things go hand-in-hand; after all...
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How the Supreme Court weaponizes its own calendar

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Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of...
Former President Donald Trump greets his own appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, ahead of the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 04, 2020. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Today, the Supreme Court will hear what might be one of its least consequential arguments in...
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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

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The world might soon see a sustained decline in greenhouse gas emissions. Eric Yang/Getty Images Earth...
The world might soon see a sustained decline in greenhouse gas emissions. Eric Yang/Getty Images Earth is coming out of the hottest year on record, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The oceans remain alarmingly warm, triggering the fourth global coral bleaching event in ...
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Imagining an internet without TikTok

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Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese...
Photo illustration by Joe Raedle/Getty Images The bill to require TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban made it to President Joe Biden’s desk on Wednesday as part of a huge foreign aid package that passed through Congress this week. And Biden, as he previously promised, signed t...
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We’ve saved 154 million lives. Want to guess how?

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The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last...
The world has become a much safer place to be a young child in the last 50 years. Since 1974, infant mortality worldwide has plummeted. That year, one in 10 newborns died before reaching their first birthday. By 2021, that rate had fallen by over two-thirds. A lot of factors drove this change: lower poverty and bett...
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4 tips for dealing with a ferocious allergy season

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Getty Images It’s a sneezy, snotty, itchy-eyed time for many Americans — perhaps more so than...
Getty Images It’s a sneezy, snotty, itchy-eyed time for many Americans — perhaps more so than ever before. Seasonal allergies are the effects of the immune system’s overreaction to pollen spewed into the air by trees, grasses, and ragweed, most commonly in the spring (although really, year-round). Climate change is ...
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Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

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Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and...
Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and to protest the sale of US jets to Israel in this October 1973 photo. Denver Post via Getty Images Last week, the country watched one of the biggest escalations in campus unrest this year unfold, when do...
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The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

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An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme...
An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s head as the group blocks an intersection during a demonstration in front of the US Supreme Court on December 1, 2021, in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A federal law requires most US...
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What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

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Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus...
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Protests over the war in Gaza erupted on Columbia University’s campus last week and have sparked demonstrations at other universities across the country. The demonstrations have resulted in some intense crackdowns and political scrutiny, all coming in the wake of recent congressi...
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The meat industry’s war on wildlife

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A coyote in the El Capitan meadow area at sunrise in Yosemite National Park. Mark Boster/Los...
A coyote in the El Capitan meadow area at sunrise in Yosemite National Park. Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A red fox killed with a cyanide bomb. A gray wolf gunned down from an airplane. A jackrabbit caught in a neck snare. These are just a few of the 1.45 million animals poisoned, shot, and trapped...
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A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide

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On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant...
On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has about 5,500 employees. On April 19, almost three-quarters of them voted to join the United Auto Workers. It’s the latest ...
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Ukraine is finally getting more US aid. It won’t win the war — but it can save them from defeat.

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Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Siversk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 1, 2024. Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via...
Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery near Siversk, in Donetsk, Ukraine, on April 1, 2024. Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images Ukrainian forces are having their best week in months, and it’s coming not on the muddy battlefields of the Donbas, but across the Atlantic. On Saturday, after months of delay, the US House...
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Trump’s team keeps promising to increase inflation

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Trump speaks at an event in Pennsylvania on April 13. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump is...
Trump speaks at an event in Pennsylvania on April 13. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Donald Trump is currently leading the 2024 presidential race, in no small part because voters trust him to combat inflation. This is a bit strange since Trump has for months now been advertising plans to drastically increase consumer pr...
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