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The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots

If the United States had a nonpartisan judiciary, Watson v. Republican National Committee would have been laughed out of court months ago. The premise of the Republican Party’s lawsuit in Watson is that, beginning in 1845, Congress banned states from counting…

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There is a photograph on Instagram of a girl who shares almost my exact name — Roya Rastegar. She is 33 years old. She is from Isfahan, my grandfather’s city. Security forces raided her home in January and arrested her. No one has heard from her since. Every…

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is no stranger to singling out the richest of the rich. Along with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Sanders recently introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, a 5 percent annual wealth tax on anyone in the US worth ov…

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OpenAI accidentally built one of the world’s richest charities. Now what?

When Sam Altman first told her that he’d never let OpenAI go corporate, that what he and his colleagues were building was too powerful to be driven by investors, Catherine Bracy more or less believed him. The conversation took place in 2022, when Bracy, CEO …

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By 2040, the US Census Bureau projects that, for the first time in the US, adults over the age of 65 will outnumber children under 18. The trend is set to continue as Gen X and millennials age, but where will everyone live, and who is designing those spaces? …

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A US atrocity in Iran, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: A US strike killed nearly 200 children on the first da…

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Trump’s open-ended war, briefly explained

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: When will Donald Trump’s war with Iran end? What’s ha…

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The global oil crisis is even worse than it looks

The oil market’s worst nightmare just came true. For decades, energy traders have feared that a war might one day close the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that links the Persian Gulf’s oil reserves to global markets. Before today’s war in Iran, about …

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The Iran war is not a video game

On Wednesday, the New York Times published the preliminary findings of a US investigation into the recent airstrike on Shajarah Tayyebeh, an elementary school for girls in the Iranian city of Minab. The investigation confirmed what all public evidence had poi…

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Up until the end of February, a steady flow of ships bound for destinations across the world would pass daily through the Strait of Hormuz. A narrow…

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Have you ever caught yourself squinting at the acronyms next to your health care provider’s name? MD, DO, NP, PA… The medical workforce has changed. While the United States has long faced a doctor (MD or DO) shortage, there are now more nurse practitioners (N…

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The police spokesperson says the explosive device had been planted near the police mobile. Following the explosion, additional police contingents were dispatched to the area