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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

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

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

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

Brain organoids, pictured here, raise both many medical possibilities and ethical questions. NIAID/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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Science requires ethical oversight – without federal dollars, society’s health and safety...

Staff Writer - May 10, 2025

A mosque lies in ruins after an Indian airstrike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 7, 2025. Zubair Abbasi/Middle East Images//AFP via Getty Images

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Missile strikes and drone attacks heighten South Asian crisis – 8...

Staff Writer - May 9, 2025

The Take It Down bill, co-authored by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, easily passed both houses of Congress. President Trump is expected to sign it into law. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

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How the Take It Down Act tackles nonconsensual deepfake porn −...

Staff Writer - May 9, 2025

Will Larry Krasner, right, win a third term? Or will fellow Democrat Pat Dugan replace him? Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer, left, and AP/Matt Rourke, right, via AP Photo

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Philadelphians will soon choose their next district attorney − so what...

Staff Writer - May 8, 2025

Piles of rare earth oxides praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium. Peggy Greb/USDA-ARS

Business

How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without...

Staff Writer - May 6, 2025

Mike Waltz speaks with reporters in the press room at the White House on Feb. 20, 2025. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

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National security advisers manage decision-making as advocates or honest brokers

Staff Writer - May 5, 2025

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, center, introduces Russian and Japanese delegates during negotiations at the Portsmouth Peace Conference in Kittery, Maine, in August 1905. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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When presidents try to make peace: What Trump could learn from...

Staff Writer - May 4, 2025

Young Montanans, including Rikki Held, center, sued their state government and won a key ruling forcing the state government to consider greenhouse gas emissions when reviewing proposed development projects. William Campbell/Getty Images

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Despite Supreme Court setback, children’s lawsuits against climate change continue

Staff Writer - May 4, 2025

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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