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‘Starwashing’: How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while engaging in environmentally damaging practices
For refugees to the US, discrimination can make healthcare harder to get
Executive order on vaccines bypasses an evidence-based process that has kept kids safe
As oil profits skyrocket, calls for windfall taxes rise
“They’re Putting Kids’ Lives at Risk”: How Abuse in a Tennessee Businessman’s Juvenile Prisons Remained Under Wraps
New tech adds phone tracking to license plate readers, associating devices with identifiable cars
A little-remembered Gilded Age millionaire helped make milk safe for American kids through his ‘retail giving’
Emerging anti-immigration sentiment in Japan obscures a surprising history of strategic engagement with Islam
The forgotten racial history of Alligator Alcatraz
How state constitutions became the battleground for American rights and liberties – on both the left and right
Criminal gangs have diversified across Latin America, making them more resilient – but not untouchable
A Colorado jail hasn’t allowed in-person visits in nearly 20 years – here’s what research says about visitation’s effects
Cyclospora spreads through human waste – so how did it get on food?
Trump administration revives conspiracy theories about Cuba’s alleged manipulation of activism in the US
Democrats have a working-class voter problem that progressives like Abdul El-Sayed are still struggling to solve
Trump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to years of deliberation and engineering ingenuity that went into its creation
The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet
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