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A radical new hypothesis in medicine: give patients drugs they know don’t work

Why the placebo effect is weirder and potentially more useful than we imagined.

June kicks off the summer TV season. Here are 11 shows to look out for.

Our most anticipated shows this month include everything from rebelling prisoners to sociopathic sloths.

Trump's Paris climate decision shows the threat rising tribalism poses to the planet

Cosmopolitanism must win the war, or we’re screwed.

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Rebecca Solnit explains the terrifying loneliness of Donald Trump

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Vox Sentences: SEE YOU IN COURT indeed, Mr. President

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Gilbert Baker created the LGBTQ Pride rainbow flag. Here’s what his creation stood for.

GOP senators suddenly turn pessimistic on repeal odds

How bicycles boosted the women's rights movement

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Emergency rooms can be incredibly unfair to the poorest patients

Wonder Woman’s costume has gotten a lot brighter since Batman v Superman

Trump decided on the Paris climate agreement with virtually no science advisers on staff

Trump administration to Supreme Court: give us the travel ban now, rule on it later

Captain Underpants is better than any movie named Captain Underpants has a right to be

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Scientists really aren't the best champions of climate science

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Jared Kushner is the domino Trump can least afford to fall in the Russia investigation

The 5 biggest deceptions in Trump’s Paris climate speech

A Russian court banned an anti-Putin video. So activists put it on Pornhub.

Trump doesn’t believe in climate change, but it’s going to drown Mar-a-Lago

Fox News actually acknowledged that climate change is real

10 standout movies from Cannes 2017 to watch for

The Florida Project, set in a cheap motel near Disney, is one of the best films to come out of Cannes

Japan's rising right-wing nationalism

Vox Sentences: Some men just want to watch the world burn

Don’t just blame Trump for quitting the Paris deal — blame the Republican Party

French President Emmanuel Macron responds to Trump: “Make our planet great again”

Trump wants a better deal than Paris on climate. What’s better than “nonbinding”?

How would Republicans handle the $12 million patient breaking Obamacare?

Corporate America finally got on board to fight climate change. Then came Trump.

Trump: I was elected to represent Pittsburgh, not Paris. Pittsburgh: Uh, we’re with Paris.

Foreign leaders to Trump: there is no "better deal" than Paris