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House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to defend a narrow majority in the 2026 elections. A near-record number of retiring Republicans won’t make that task easier. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

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Who thinks Republicans will suffer in the 2026 midterms? Republican members...

Staff Writer - December 26, 2025

Charlie Hunt, Boise State University The midterm elections for Congress won’t take place until November, but already a record...

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Protesters run as Cameroonian security forces use water cannons to disperse them during the country’s latest election, whose integrity was widely challenged. AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal

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Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...

Staff Writer - December 19, 2025

Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it...

Colorado was the first state to pass a law requiring warning labels on gas stoves. mapodile/GettyImages

What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels

December 18, 2025

Could this be the next Blitzen? Feeding a reindeer in Lapland, Finland, north of the Arctic Circle. Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld/Moment via Getty Images

The North Pole keeps moving – here’s how that affects Santa’s...

December 16, 2025

Some bird species on neighboring tips of the evolutionary tree can interbreed, with interesting genomic results. Kaleb Anderson

Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary...

December 12, 2025

Dusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman

6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong

December 9, 2025