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What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual
Dry lightning, extreme heat, and Covid-19 are all shaping California’s efforts to contain massive, deadly blazes.
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DHS is holding migrant children in secret hotel locations and rapidly expelling them
It’s just the Trump’s administration’s latest blow to the asylum system amid the pandemic.
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promises to prioritize mail-in ballots, but questions about delays remain
He called claims that Trump was meddling in the USPS "outrageous."
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Biden wants a national face mask mandate. Can he do that?
More Americans than ever are in favor of a national mask mandate, but it may not be possible.
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Did Putin have his top critic poisoned?
Here’s why we may never know.
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How politicians showed off their books at the Democratic National Convention
The credibility bookcase has become a fundamental part of image-making. Here’s how it worked at the DNC.
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The 2020 DNC was an eerie look at a country in crisis — and great TV
On the strange, semi-fictional quality of everything that happens in 2020.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the future of the left
Rising star Ocasio-Cortez’s politics provide a model for a progressive movement seeking to diversify.
