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America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
The factors that lead to tragedies like Uvalde are deeply ingrained in US politics, culture, and law.
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Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.
It was one of the world's largest mandatory gun buybacks — and it was a smashing success.
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How America fails children
US public policy is a disaster on guns — and so much more.
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With Ricky Gervais’s new special, Netflix yet again suffers transphobic fools
Does Netflix even care that Ricky Gervais’s SuperNature is rife with transphobic TERF ideology?
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Why Boeing’s successful Starliner test is a big deal
Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally has some competition.
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In Appalachia, a race to preserve the practice of plant healing
Even as ginseng, St. John’s wort, and other herbs grow in popularity, the region is struggling to keep its age-old practice of herbalism alive for a new generation.
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Countries are limiting food exports. It may make global hunger worse.
Trade is vital to mitigating the global food crisis.
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How the Supreme Court made it impossible to solve America’s gun violence problem
If you can’t ban handguns, you’re just spinning your wheels.
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Monkeypox!?!?
Good news: Epidemiologists don’t think monkeypox will be as bad as Covid-19. Bad news: We stopped vaccinating people against this type of disease decades ago. Vox reporter (and resident epidemiologist) Keren Landman explains.
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Welcome to the May issue of The Highlight
In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the real effect of the child tax credit now that it’s gone, and more.
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The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash
Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped.
