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Lawmakers won’t compromise on police reform. Will Tyre Nichols’s killing change that?

New calls for police reform face old Democratic and Republican divisions in Congress.

Clean energy is taking over the Texas grid. State officials are trying to stop it.

Wind and solar are rapidly growing, but Texas Republicans want to throw a lifeline to natural gas.

How Avatar: The Way of Water can make $2 billion and still feel irrelevant

James Cameron’s sequel is the global smash no one is talking about.

How effective altruists ignored risk

To rebuild the movement after the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, EAs will need to embrace a humbler, more decentralized approach.

Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for the government to kill people

The longtime opponent of free speech adds the Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the list of constitutional rights he wants to abridge.

How to learn to love winter

Winter doesn’t have to be the absolute worst time of year.

How years of instability came to a head in Peru

Peruvian protests — and the government’s response — are "a monster eating itself," one expert told Vox.