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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

Politics

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

Staff Writer - May 2, 2026

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

Politics

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

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

Politics

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

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

Politics

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

Politics

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

Lake Mead, impounded by Hoover Dam, contains far less water than it used to. Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Politics

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence...

Staff Writer - August 7, 2025

While other presidential administrations have issued ‘Dear Colleague’ letters to schools, the Trump administration is the first to treat the letter like a law that mandates action. iStock/Getty Images Plus

Politics

Trump has promised to eliminate funding to schools that don’t nix...

Staff Writer - August 6, 2025

Customers have embraced electric vehicles; policy changes may decrease that interest but will not eliminate it. Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Politics

EPA removal of vehicle emissions limits won’t stop the shift to...

Staff Writer - August 5, 2025

Donald Trump wants to restrict journalists’ ability to publish or broadcast critical stories. Mesh cube, iStock/Getty Images Plus

Politics

The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants...

Staff Writer - August 4, 2025

Smaller businesses have fewer resources to weather big policy changes. WC.GI/Getty Images

Politics

For America’s 35M small businesses, tariff uncertainty hits especially hard

Staff Writer - August 4, 2025

The city of Hiroshima was destroyed when the United States dropped atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Aug. 6, 1945. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Politics

The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80...

Staff Writer - August 3, 2025

The Ahwahnee is a privately run hotel inside Yosemite National Park. George Rose/Getty Images

Politics

Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization

Staff Writer - August 2, 2025

‘Boys’ love’ literature depicts an idealized version of gay male sex. Ed Gottschalk/Wikimedia Commons

Politics

China’s arrests of boys’ love authors does not equate to a...

Staff Writer - July 31, 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