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The next voting rights battleground is Michigan

The Michigan GOP has an aggressive plan to suppress the vote — and to bypass the governor’s veto.

The surgeon general wants Facebook to do more to stop Covid-19 lies

Dr. Vivek Murthy considers social media misinformation to be a deadly public health threat.

What we’ve learned about Britney Spears’s conservatorship case changes everything

Explaining Britney, one more time.

From Macy’s to Ace Hardware, facial recognition is already everywhere

Customers are largely unaware.

The US is bracing for a potential Haitian migrant crisis. Biden needs to step up.

Here are three ways Biden could help Haitians fleeing their home country.

The wellness world’s conspiracy problem is linked to Orientalism

East and South Asian medical traditions have been appropriated and misinterpreted in the West, sometimes for political gain.

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#FreeBritney was right

Britney Spears returned to conservatorship court this week. Vox’s Constance Grady explains how Spears has rapidly become the face of a legal reform movement.

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The critical race theory debate

Matt is joined by education reporter Andrew Ujifusa to weigh in on what's really at stake in the debate over teaching critical race theory in schools

Few immigrants in detention have been vaccinated. That needs to change.

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The five-day workweek is dead

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Trump has found his January 6 martyr

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We must burn the West to save it

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Undersea volcanoes are home to more life than we know

Yet the threats these castles of biodiversity face are mounting.

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