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Why Americans can’t escape credit card debt

Americans are carrying more than $1.2 trillion in credit card debt, and for a lot of people, it’s not from splurging. It’s everyday stuff: car repairs, medical bills, groceries. And if you only make the minimum payment, that debt can grow exponentially, stick…

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JD Vance had a vision for the world. Trump is wrecking it.

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Punjab Government introduces new investment opportunity in real estate through Stamp Law Amendment

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How fan fiction went mainstream

Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million registered users. Its users spend their time both reading and writing many, many words about their favorite fictional characters. It’s a place that allows normi…

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The real reason your monthly gas bill keeps going up

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From the cold snap this winter to the US war with Iran, rising energy bills are making headlines. But there’s a larger story behind sp…

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Did the Trump administration threaten the pope?

Most American Catholics were probably not expecting to spend the first week of Easter trying to figure out whether their government was threatening to overthrow the first American-born pope. Yet a handful of news reports this week raised that very strange pos…

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Ozempic just got cheap enough to change the world

By now, Ozempic needs no introduction in America. One in 8 American adults now takes a GLP-1 drug of some kind. But even as millions of people in wealthy countries have benefitted from these drugs, they have remained out of reach for most of the world. But fo…

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Democrats just locked down control of one of the most important courts in America

Wisconsin voters effectively gave Democrats a supermajority on one of the most important state supreme courts in the country on Tuesday. The result was a blowout. Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeated Judge Maria Lazar by a twenty-point margin. Although Wiscons…

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MAGA’s favorite strongman might be on the brink of defeat

Under normal circumstances, an election in Hungary — a landlocked Central European country of less than 10 million — would not be a major world event. But for the past 16 years, Hungary has not been a normal country. After Prime Minister Viktor Orbán won a ma…

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The soft TACO theory of Trump

President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to accept a ceasefire in Iran — rather than following through on his threats to escalate the war further with massively destructive attacks harming Iranian civilians — is being greeted with what’s become a familiar re…

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We have no idea if Iran can still build a bomb

The focus of the US-Iran war — and now the negotiations over the US-Iran ceasefire — has shifted to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, to such an extent that the main original justification for the war (destroying Iran’s nascent nuclear program) can some…

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The surprising truth about logging

The value of forest ecosystems is hard to overstate. Blanketing roughly a third of the US, they supply clean water and air, absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide, and provide homes for imperiled wildlife and a tranquil place for Americans to hunt and fish. It’…

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It should be much easier to remove the president from office

The 25th Amendment is having a moment. According to a tally by NBC News, over 70 Democratic lawmakers called for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to invoke an obscure constitutional provision that would allow them to temporarily prevent Trump from acting as p…

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Did Trump accidentally do something woke for global health?

A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke. See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that ha…

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The high price of everything, explained

When I was growing up, my dad and I would play a game at the grocery store: As the cashier was ringing up the items on the list my mom had given us, we each would guess what we thought the total would amount to. Whoever was closest won bragging rights, and ma…

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What should you be teaching your kids right now to prepare them for an AI-scrambled job market?

I work with a lot of very smart people, and sometimes one of them asks me a question that stops me in my tracks. That’s what happened after I published the newest installment of my advice column, Your Mileage May Vary, which was about whether it’s morally ick…

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Punjab ends motorcycle registration, transfer fees

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Why an 8-1 Supreme Court just ruled in favor of anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy”

There was never much doubt how this Supreme Court would decide Chiles v. Salazar, a lawsuit challenging a Colorado law that bars licensed therapists from providing “conversion therapy,” or counseling that seeks to convert LGBTQ+ patients into straight and cis…