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South Korea’s Covid-19 success story started with failure

The inside account of how one country built a system to defeat the pandemic.

By Dylan Scott and Jun Michael Park

The next big voting rights fight is in Texas

Texas is already one of the most restrictive states in the country. Republicans want new rules that would make things worse.

By Zack Beauchamp

Watch NASA’s new autonomous helicopter take flight on Mars

Some powerful tech has landed on the red planet.

By Rebecca Heilweil

How one company and way too many pigs destroyed America’s heartland

Iowa’s largest hog producer courted power and turned farming into a numbers game. Businesses like it are increasingly the norm.

By Charlie Mitchell and Austin Frerick

Don’t sleep on seeing The Father, one of our favorite Best Picture nominees

The movie, starring Anthony Hopkins, is heartbreaking and brilliant.

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Amy Klobuchar takes aim at 12 vaccine misinformation influencers

Senators have written to Facebook and Twitter to ask about vaccine misinformation superspreaders.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why South Africa is still so segregated

How centuries of division built one of the most unequal countries on earth.

By Christina Thornell

Biden’s climate leadership will be tested at the Earth Day summit

China, Russia, and India may be reluctant to reengage on US terms at the climate summit.

By Lili Pike

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America awaits a verdict

Arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin have wrapped after a brutal week for policing in America. Minnesota Public Radio’s Jon Collins shares his reporting from Minneapolis.

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