The Power of Local Money for a Thriving Local Economy
Ann Lapenna always felt buoyed by a sense of belonging when she walked into the West End Food Co-op in …
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Kamala Harris’ Refusal of the One-Drop Rule
When Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in as vice president earlier this year, many people in the U.S. and around …
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Why Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling ice cream in the West Bank rattled Israel
In 2018, I was living in Israel while researching a book about the country’s fight against groups that challenge its …
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Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet
You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try …
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Does Every Vote Still Count?
In every election cycle, urging people to vote is usually accompanied by the standard argument that “every vote counts.” Technically, …
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Amid Calls for Reform, Maine’s Criminal Defense System Reaches a “Breaking Point”
This article was produced in partnership with The Maine Monitor, a former member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.Update, July 19, …
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China Wants to Be the World’s AI Superpower. Does It Have What It Takes?
China’s star has been steadily rising for decades. Besides slashing extreme poverty rates from 88 percent to under 2 percent …
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Kenya is converting invading plants into biofuel
The shores of Lake Victoria are clogged with water hyacinth, a South American invasive plant that is hurting Kenya’s freshwater …
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Contraception Is Free to Women, Except When It’s Not
For Stephanie Force, finding a birth control method that she likes and can get without paying out-of-pocket has been a …
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Evolution of the dad
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different? Lee Gettler …
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The US withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war: 4 questions about this historic moment
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, served in Afghanistan as a reserve …
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A Postal Worker Begged for Stronger COVID-19 Protections. She Ended Up Spending Six Weeks in the Hospital.
The limited response to postal workers’ repeated appeals for help provides a window into the failures of two federal agencies: …
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They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?
This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and …
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What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification
I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about …
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Two All American Insurrections Contrasted
“No one had ever seen anything like it. Wilmington’s whites had mounted a rare armed overthrow of a legally elected …