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How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

By Siobhan McDonough

How Congress’s dependence on short-term funding keeps us stuck in the past

By Ellen Ioanes

What the world got right during the Covid-19 pandemic

By Muizz Akhtar

The Supreme Court is not being honest with you

By Ian Millhiser
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Why the US doesn’t have universal child care (anymore)

By Madeline Marshall

A Trump judge’s new decision would undo more than 50 years of voting rights law

By Ian Millhiser

Russia has 150,000 troops near Ukraine. What does that mean?

By Jen Kirby

Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls???

By Sara Morrison

What can actually convince vaccine skeptics to get their shots

By Dylan Scott

The wild finish to the Olympic women’s figure skating final

By Alex Abad-Santos

Migrants are sewing their lips shut to protest the policy that stranded them in Mexico

By Nicole Narea

The mystery of methane gone missing

By Rebecca Leber

Why were scientists so slow to study Covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

By Keren Landman

Congress’s short-term funding bills are a terrible way to govern

By Li Zhou

How the new banned books panic fits into America’s history of school censorship

By Constance Grady
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The hidden reason Olympic sledding is so dangerous

By Marie Cascione

How history made this Atlanta neighborhood a secession battleground

By Miles Bryan

SpaceX and our space junk problem

By Sara Morrison

Immigrants could help the US labor shortage — if the government would let them

By Nicole Narea

What we don’t know about war and peace

By Dylan Matthews

When celebrity nudes were everywhere

By Constance Grady

The hidden epidemic

By Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Can Facebook monopolize the metaverse?

By Shirin Ghaffary and Sara Morrison

The shocking decision to allow Kamila Valieva to skate at the Olympics, explained

By Alex Abad-Santos

Why there’s been a surge of bipartisan activity in Congress

By Li Zhou