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Science funding was hit in 2025. What does that mean for the future?
2025 was a hard year for science. The Trump administration upended federal funding for all kinds of scientific pursuits, slashing budgets across agen…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How the Trump administration stripped legal status from 1.6 million immigrants
The Trump administration has removed over 600,000 people without legal status from the U.S. through deportation this year, according to the Departmen…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
We use our smartphones for just about everything - why not voting?
Entrepreneur, political strategist and philanthropist Bradley Tusk argues his new online voting tech could revolutionize participation in American el…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The U.S. spent billions to rebuild Afghanistan. Was it successful?
A new report from U.S. government watchdog SIGAR gives us the fullest accounting yet of U.S. efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
In short, they call it "a…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The cream of the slop: this year's AI highlights
2025 has proved that artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping online reality and that the “slop” is here to stay.
NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel and Shanno…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Rob Reiner loved America. He thought it could be better
Rob Reiner spent his life trying to fix what he saw as America’s shortcomings. In an interview shortly before his death he explained why he was optim…
4 months ago
What's Trump's Venezuela endgame?
The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on Venezuela and its leader. What is the ultimate goal?
President Trump says he’s imposing a ban on a…
4 months ago
The U.S. is interested in Venezuelan oil, but that's not all
Tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been growing over the past few months. And last Wednesday, the pressure point was oil.
The U.S. governme…
4 months ago
What we know about the rise in antisemitic attacks in Australia and around the world
On Sunday, during a celebration for the first day of Hanukkah, a father and son opened fire on Bondi Beach near Sydney. Killing or wounding dozens of…
4 months ago
'She's going to return to Venezuela,' says daughter of Maria Corina Machado
Venezuelan leader and activist Maria Corina Machado’s perilous journey to Oslo made headlines this week, but that was just the start of a new phase o…
4 months ago