Political
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How Denver’s Northeast Park Hill community reduced youth violence by 75%
Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early…
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Operational secrecy kept the US from making evacuation plans – and that means Americans in the Mideast could wait days
As the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, American citizens living in or visiting the Middle East found themselves…
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Housing First helps people find permanent homes in Detroit − but HUD plans to divert funds to short-term solutions
A bureaucratic shift in Washington is threatening to undo years of progress in Detroit’s fight against homelessness, potentially forcing thousands…
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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority
Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents…
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CIA agents successfully executed a plan for regime change in Iran in 1953 – but Trump hasn’t revealed any signs of a plan
When the bombing of Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, the Trump administration had not informed the American people exactly…
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Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame
Does politics stress you out? Did the last election cause you to lose sleep, lose your temper or lose a…
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Public defender shortage is leading to hundreds of criminal cases being dismissed
The Oregon Supreme Court on Feb. 5, 2026, issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400…
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US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy
Shortly after the opening salvo of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026 – with missiles targeting cities across…
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Failure of US-Iran talks was all too predictable — but turning to military strikes creates dangerous unknowns
Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to…
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The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons
If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you…
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