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How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted…
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Tony Carruthers recently survived a lethal injection attempt – the latest man to endure a failed execution
Tennessee set out to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026, but he lived to tell about it. Carruthers, who…
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For Black women in abusive relationships, gun-control loopholes can engender deadly disparities
In April 2026, Dr. Cerina Wanzer Fairfax was shot and killed by her husband while their divorce was pending. She…
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James Comey’s Instagram seashell post sits in a murky legal zone between protected political speech and criminal threat
In the case of United States v. James Brien Comey Jr., the U.S. president’s security is pitted against the bedrock…
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How Fox News viewership increases belief in the anti-immigrant great replacement theory
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Democrats don’t get why they’ve lost most working class voters
Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry…
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How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution
George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power. “It follows…
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The more Fox News a white American watches, the more likely they are to believe in a racist conspiracy theory, regardless of party affiliation and demographics
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Maps are powerful political tools shaping a nation’s past, present and future – counter maps allow everyday people to reclaim the narrative
Throughout time, maps have been useful tools for those in power to stake their claim over territories and markets. Politicians…
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Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump
A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump…
