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Keith Krach Speaking

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Keith Krach, Freedom, and America’s Next 250 Years

Staff Writer - July 11, 2026

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks in Cutler Bay, Fla., on March 6, 2023. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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Justice Jackson’s birthright citizenship opinion includes Black Americans in the story of the nation’s search for equality

Colorado passed a landmark artificial intelligence law that was challenged in a federal lawsuit. AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images

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Why Colorado replaced its AI discrimination law with a transparency requirement that the feds might challenge anyway

The Fort Gregg-Adams Religious Services Office held its first official Native American worship service at Heritage Chapel on the U.S. Army installation in Virginia on Aug. 10, 2024. Chad Menegay

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Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

A woman peeks out from the doorway of her home in Havana, Cuba, on May 6, 2026. Yamil LAge/AFP via Getty Images

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‘We are waiting for the Americans to save us’ – in crisis, Cubans have given up on reform from within

President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Richard Garwin at the White House on Nov. 22, 2016. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

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H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy

Staff Writer - May 17, 2025

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has had an uncertain start to his tenure. John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images

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New chancellor, old constraints: Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard...

Staff Writer - May 17, 2025

The National Science Foundation funds America’s next great innovations, including space-related research. Heritage Space/Heritage Images/Getty Images

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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...

Staff Writer - May 15, 2025

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer is one of the world’s fastest. Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, CC BY

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Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation

Staff Writer - May 14, 2025

Cities like Houston get high humidity in addition to the heat, making summer almost unbearable without cooling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

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Trump moves to gut low-income energy assistance as summer heat descends...

Staff Writer - May 13, 2025

Trade opportunities ahead. Kschulze/Getty Images

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If you really want to close the US trade deficit, try...

Staff Writer - May 12, 2025

A member of the Indian Border Security Force stands guard near the India-Pakistan border. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

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India-Pakistan ceasefire shouldn’t disguise fact that norms have changed in South...

Staff Writer - May 11, 2025

Getting into Harvard University is hard, and so is getting rid of its charitable status. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

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Can Trump strip Harvard of its charitable status? Scholars of nonprofit...

Staff Writer - May 10, 2025

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EXPLORING NATURE

People are often concerned about environmental risks lurking near their homes. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...

Staff Writer - July 1, 2026

Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...

Leaving the pyrotechnics to the professionals is safer and more spectacular. YinYang/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Fireworks, heat and drought make this July 4th a recipe for wildfires

June 30, 2026

Rescue workers carry a person on a stretcher in Caracas following an earthquake in Venezuela on June 24, 2026. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images

Aid is on the way after Venezuela’s earthquakes, but it’s not...

June 27, 2026

A June 24, 2026, earthquake shook buildings to the ground, trapping and killing people in Caracas, Venezuela, and nearby communities. Manaure Quintero/AFP via Getty Images

Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes happened on a fault similar to the San...

June 26, 2026

Many yoga classes end with the instructor explaining ‘namaste’ as ‘the divine in me bows to the divine in you.’ Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Why it’s OK to say ‘namaste’ in yoga class

June 23, 2026