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Barbed wire surrounds the GEO Group ICE detention facility in Adelanto, Calif. on July 10, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

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When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases

Staff Writer - May 2, 2026

Gas prices were well over $4 a gallon on April 28, 2026, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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What’s in the price of a gallon of gas?

The U.K. Parliament passed legislation in an effort to control spiraling rental costs and reverse rising homelessness rates. Matt Cardy/Getty Image

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England’s ‘once in a generation’ housing law takes effect as US housing legislation sits in congressional purgatory

The Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz has largely brought oil traffic to a halt, hitting petroleum-exporting countries hard. Asghar Besharati / Getty Images

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The US has long used economic coercion to achieve foreign policy goals — the war in Iran shows how that power has declined

State governments have had trouble regulating what crisis pregnancy centers should tell their clients and donors. AP Photo/Mark Zaleski

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Supreme Court bolsters donors’ free speech rights in unanimous crisis pregnancy center ruling

Concessions to the private sector are one reason why health care is so costly. FS Productions/Tetra images via Getty Images

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US health care is rife with high costs and deep inequities,...

Staff Writer - June 6, 2025

A sitting duck? A Russian Tu-160 strategic bomber on the ground on Feb. 22, 2024. Alexander KazakovAFP via Getty Images

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Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web destroyed more than aircraft – it tore...

Staff Writer - June 5, 2025

The vehicle assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. AP Photo/Marta Lavandier

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Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while...

Staff Writer - June 4, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrive at the Elysee Palace in Paris in 2019. Ian Langsdon/Pool Photo via AP

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Even if Putin and Zelenskyy do go face-to-face, don’t expect wonders...

Staff Writer - June 3, 2025

Law enforcement officials dress in protective gear to investigate after an attack on a march in Boulder, Colo., on June 1, 2025, calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. AP Photo/David Zalubowski

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Reducing American antisemitism requires more than condemning opposition to Israel and...

Staff Writer - June 3, 2025

Photos after the Los Angeles fires in January 2025 show many yards where vegetation didn’t burn while neighboring houses did. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

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California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes...

Staff Writer - June 2, 2025

The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Detroit’s population grew in 2023, 2024 − a strategy to welcome...

Staff Writer - May 30, 2025

DEI has a long history. Nora Carol Photography via Getty Images

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Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI

Staff Writer - May 29, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

Seagrass has made an unexpected return to Mosquito Lagoon. Captain William B. Wolfson, Grassroots Guide Service, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Environment

Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback

Staff Writer - April 22, 2026

Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Southwestern University and Hannah V. Herrero, University of Tennessee Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem...

A German security guard checks for radiation after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986. Patrick Piel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation...

April 22, 2026

A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests. Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

April 21, 2026

People tend to be offended when they get a personal note written by AI – if they know. Ekaterina Buravleva/iStock via Getty Images

Most people do not realize when a personal message they receive...

April 20, 2026

Cannabis plants are seen at Harborside Oakland Dispensary on Aug. 11, 2025, in Oakland, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Why the future of marijuana legalization remains hazy despite high public support

April 18, 2026