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Ulises Rodriguez / Reuters What Trump Doesn't Understand About MS-13
The president may be overstating the gang’s impact.
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Jamie Chung What’s Wrong With the Democrats?
If the party cares about winning, it needs to learn how to appeal to the white working class.
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Reuters Who Gets to Use Facebook's Rainbow 'Pride' Reaction?
An analysis to see if the algorithms behind the new emoji contribute to political bubbles in America
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Peninsula Open Space Trust The Poverty Just Over the Hills From Silicon Valley
The South Coast, a 30-mile drive from Palo Alto, is facing an affordable-housing shortage that is jeopardizing its agricultural heritage.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Major Church-State Barrier
Trinity Lutheran v. Comer finds that governments can’t discriminate against churches that would otherwise qualify for funding just because they’re religious institutions.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP CBO Analysis Endangers GOP Health-Care Bill
The report from the Congressional Budget Office found the proposal would leave 22 million uninsured, seeing little difference in impact from the House-passed American Health Care Act.
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Logo TV Sasha Velour and Drag's Permanent Revolution
The latest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race is a politically engaged oddball—which is, in its way, pretty traditional.
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David Ryder / Reuters Were Seattle's Minimum-Wage Hikes Too Extreme or Just Right?
A controversial new study raises questions about the optimal floor for pay.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images The Supreme Court Partially Unblocked Trump's Travel Ban
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the president’s controversial executive order next term. But in the meantime, the administration can enforce some of its provisions.
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All photos courtesy of Alex Tizon and his ... My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
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HBO How Will Silicon Valley Work Without T.J. Miller?
The mercurial comedian, who plays the disruptive Erlich Bachman, departed the show under mysterious circumstances in Sunday’s season finale.
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Eloy Alonso / Reuters How CRISPR Yanked Jennifer Doudna Out of the Ivory Tower
The pioneer biochemist feels a responsibility to weigh in on ethical debates about gene editing.
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HBO The Most Pessimistic Episode of Veep Yet
The show’s Season 6 finale highlighted the sometimes suffocating nature of American politics.
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Justin Renteria Power Causes Brain Damage
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A New Penalty for the Uninsured in the GOP Health-Care Bill
Republicans would lock people out of coverage for six months if they go without insurance under a provision added to the Senate proposal on Monday.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump's Limited Travel Ban Victory
The Supreme Court granted review of the president’s travel ban in October, but the Court clearly hopes—and strongly hints—that the case will be moot by then.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters How Much Can One Strongman Change a Country?
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is thinking about his legacy—and his own mortality. He desires power, but not necessarily for its own sake.
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Reuters RIP Gchat
A eulogy for a simpler age of internet messaging
