Get Used to High Gas Prices

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Tuesday Poem

Lean In—to Other People

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

Perceptions

Towards an AI for Africa

Is Democratic Socialism Going National?

Archives: August/September 2026

These Cameras Save Lives. But Some Want Them Banned

Prospective Legal Challenges to Trump's Section 338 Tariffs Against Canada

High Blood Pressure in Pregnant Women Is Rising Across the Country

How smallpox reached the Americas: first genomic evidence points to Europeans

Trump Keeps Pushing Legally Dubious Tariffs

Under fire from Republican senators, Fauci takes the Fifth at COVID-19 hearing

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

Ancient DNA confirms historical accounts of how smallpox got to the Americas

Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one

With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence

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

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