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Can giving parents cash help with babies’ brain development?

A new study suggests that regular cash payments to parents can speed up brain activity in infants.

By Dylan Matthews

The Supreme Court will hear two cases that are likely to end affirmative action

The conservative Court adds more cases to its growing culture war docket.

By Ian Millhiser

Democrats have had enough of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s obstruction

By Ellen Ioanes January 23

Biden promised a harder line on Saudi Arabia. Why can’t he deliver?

By Jonathan Guyer January 23

What Congress’s new election reform idea leaves out

By Li Zhou January 22

Can Russia back down in Ukraine?

By Jen Kirby January 22

The hidden lesson in the new free Covid-19 tests

By Dara Lind January 22

Democrats may have to sacrifice something big for the climate

By Rebecca Leber January 21

The frustrating Covid-19 test reimbursement process is a microcosm of US health care

By Dylan Scott January 20

The parents of the youngest children are not okay

By Katherine Harmon Courage January 20

Why Covid-19 is always one step ahead of the US response

By Dylan Scott January 20

The voting rights push in Congress is over. The fight for democracy isn’t.

By Zack Beauchamp January 20

Biden’s immigration polices have left Haitians stranded in Mexico

By Nicole Narea January 20

The world has moved on from Colleyville. American Jews can’t.

By Zack Beauchamp January 20

Democrats’ failure on filibuster reform will haunt them

By Li Zhou January 19

The Supreme Court breaks with Trump on January 6

By Ian Millhiser January 19

It was a great day in the Supreme Court for the bribery of lawmakers

By Ian Millhiser January 19

Democrats’ voting rights debacle

By Andrew Prokop January 19

Biden’s offshore wind plan is also a jobs plan

By Neel Dhanesha January 19

What you need to know about Biden’s free rapid test program

By Rebecca Heilweil January 19

We’ll never have a normal flu season again

By Dylan Scott January 18

Could a 54-year-old civil rights law be revived?

By Jerusalem Demsas January 17

How seditious conspiracy charges change the January 6 narrative

By Ellen Ioanes January 16

The Christian right brings a Supreme Court case it actually deserves to win

By Ian Millhiser January 16

The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines

By Ian Millhiser January 15

The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response

By Dylan Scott January 14

Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to filibuster reform rests on a myth

By Li Zhou January 13

Protecting voting rights isn’t enough to save democracy

By Fabiola Cineas January 13

Texas shows the dangers of indifference to omicron

By Nicole Narea January 13

Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?

By Dylan Matthews January 12

The Supreme Court takes up a case, brought by Ted Cruz, that could legalize bribery

By Ian Millhiser January 12

The FTC’s antitrust case against Facebook is going forward after all

By Shirin Ghaffary January 11

Biden changed his mind on the filibuster. It’s not enough.

By Li Zhou January 11

Stop calling workers “low skill”

By Jerusalem Demsas January 11

Rapid tests, omicron, and you

By Rebecca Heilweil January 10

Time is running out. Here’s how the climate movement can level up.

The high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.

By Rebecca Leber January 10

Chuck Schumer is forcing Democrats to pick a side on the filibuster

By Li Zhou January 8

The Supreme Court appears ready to slash Biden’s vaccine mandate for workers

By Ian Millhiser January 7

The Supreme Court could hand down another major attack on Roe v. Wade any day now

By Ian Millhiser January 7

The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington

By Jonathan Guyer January 7

The hollowness of Biden’s January 6 speech

By Zack Beauchamp January 6

How to stop Trump from stealing the election next time

By Andrew Prokop January 6

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