“They Have Been Denied Their Right to Parent and Protect Her”

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Why Drug Trafficking Is Now Almost a Human Right in Canada

Misrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice

Single Orangutan Moms Set up Playdates for Their Kids

North Carolina Woman Doesn't Have First Amendment Right to Publish Video of Cop Shooting Her Dogs, Court Rules

Mélenchon Is Right About France’s Debt

Artist Tracey Emin: I’m Doing What I Think Is Right

The ghetto on the lagoon

Revealed: how this common gut microbe protects against heart disease

The problem with pandemic novels? Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

Canada commits $1.2 billion to protect oceans while pushing ahead with pipeline

Loneliness, Resilience, and the Right Choice: Poet Diane Ackerman on What She Learned While Working at a Suicide Prevention Hotline

Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Trump Is Taking a Stake in Venezuela's Oil Industry and This Crony Is Cashing In

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

Extreme Heat Comes for the Red Chile Capital of Pakistan