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Why animals are smarter than we think

When I was growing up, one of my favorite things to hear from an adult was that I was smart. It made me feel special — like I was capable of doing things that other people weren’t. In hindsight, that pride came with baggage: pressure to do well academically,…

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An unexpected winner of the midterm election: Animals

In this week’s midterm elections, many Democrats won n a landslide. Also on the winning side of many ballot decisions: animals. First, voters in Washington, DC, and Denver, Colorado, decisively supported a ban on the sale of foie gras — duck liver made by f…

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A million people could gain health insurance in Texas after Democrats’ huge win

On election night in Texas, the impossible became possible. Democrats won the governor’s seat for the first time since the 1990s and appear to be on their way to securing control of the state House too. Those massive, unexpected wins have now opened the windo…

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How Democrats won the Deep South

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PM inaugurates Kashmir Underpass in Islamabad

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Trump’s final midterms pitch: Look at my pool

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Who will govern Israel? It may come down to Arab voters.

The dust is beginning to settle a week after Israel’s first national election since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, and the war Israel waged on Gaza in response. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opponents won the 61 parliamentary seats nee…

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There’s been a lot of “communist” talk on the midterms campaign trail. It’s become President Donald Trump’s favorite new perceived threat coming from the left. But it’s actually not new at all. US politicians, especially on the right, have long described com…

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Is this our last time setting our clocks back?

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The case for a little election optimism

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. No sooner had early voting started this year than analysts noticed a curious trend: Democratic voters were c…

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You like your job. AI is better at it. What now?

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The global war on citizenship

What do a Bollywood actor, a member of Congress, and Israeli directors have in common? It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. The punchline, though, is that governments of India, the United States, and Israel, respectively, think they should be stripped…

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The Supreme Court is poised to make taxpayers fund anti-LGBTQ discrimination

For years, the Supreme Court has flirted with the question of whether religious conservatives may simply ignore laws prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. The Court’s Republican majority frequently rules in favor of business owners and instituti…

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