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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Neglected Criminal-Justice Problem
Jails haven’t gotten as much attention as other criminal-justice problems. A new wave of sheriffs is trying to change that.
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Ajit Solanki / AP The Streets Are Alive With the Sound of Traffic
City noise is harmful. What’s being done to save urbanites’ ears?
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Dylan Martinez / AP The Heir to the (Brexit) Throne
British conservatives are selecting the next prime minister. Most voters won’t get a say.
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R. Gates / Getty Ida B. Wells’s Uncompromising View of Suffrage
The movement for women’s suffrage often excluded black women. That didn’t stop Ida B. Wells’s activism.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters It’s the Policy, Stupid
Some Democrats are scrapping their playbooks and reenvisioning what may be politically possible in the Trump era.
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Matt Rourke / AP The Fight to Change the Abortion Debate
States are taking new actions to challenge Roe v. Wade. But the abortion debate itself remains an old political argument.
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Ramon Espinosa/ AP You Get a Tariff! You Get a Tariff! Everybody Gets a Tariff!
Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico. That would put the entire global economy at risk.
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O'Hara / AP Stories for Life After War
Phil Klay’s Redeployment reveals that telling stories can help soldiers recover from war, but only so much.
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Gerald Herbert/ AP The Codes We Live By
Don’t snub building codes. These jargony construction standards shape the man-made world around us.
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Damian Dovarganes/ AP Where Should Students Learn How to Think?
In school or outside of school? The Masthead debates the best setting for students to learn critical thinking.
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Thibault Camus/ AP Why 2020 Is the Most Consequential Election Ever
The upcoming presidential election will be the fork in the road for some of America’s biggest decisions.
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Ted S. Warren/ AP Can A State Unban Affirmative Action?
Washington State decided to let colleges use race in admissions decisions. But the public might change its mind.
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Tim Ireland / AP The Battle for Britain’s EU Seats
The upcoming European elections will be a key indicator of how the British people feel about Brexit.
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Martin Meissner/ AP Won’t You Give Big Brother Your Consent?
Companies want to collect your data in public spaces. Saying no is getting harder.
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Amy Harris / AP Kanye West in the Church of Celebrity
To understand the spectacle of the artist’s “Sunday service” at Coachella, look to Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay on the religious origin of idols.
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Ng Han Guan / AP What Scares China’s Leaders?
Activists can succeed in China, as long as they follow the ever-changing rules for dissent.
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Ahn Young-joon/AP Hollywood’s Endgame
Avengers: Endgame is the culmination of a new moviemaking concept disrupting cinema.
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Jim Pickerell / AP From Trash Talk to Trash Action
Cities are experimenting with nudging their citizens into environmental action.
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Christine Nesbitt/ AP Why the World Didn’t Fall Apart
Robert D. Kaplan’s “The Coming Anarchy” was a pessimistic masterpiece. But its bleak predictions didn’t all pan out.
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Hans Pennink/ AP New York Democrats Are Falling Short on Goals
The state’s stumbles show that even a 2020 win might not be enough for Democrats to make the policy changes they want.
