What role should government have in health care, and who should pay for it? A political fight lays bare a philosophical one.
Lookouts and radar operators on the Fitzgerald should have spotted the freighter it collided with, and the captain should have been alerted. But none of that happened, and seven sailors died.
An avalanche of mud and rocks engulfed as many as 40 homes in a village in Sichuan Province, officials said.
When Diamond Reynolds’s boyfriend, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, the events were captured by police and security cameras, and even her own smartphone.
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In downtown Sydney, opposite the Reserve Bank of Australia, the needy and outraged gather in an unsanctioned shelter to sleep, cook, read and question inequality.
Women are speaking out about attacks, harassment and the tepid official response at Australian universities, and facing a backlash from a hypermasculine society.
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Projects in Documenta 14 show that art can potentially change history, not just reflect it — and we have serious things to think about.
Secular candidates like Jon Ossoff have a hard time winning the trust of religious voters.
Even if it isn’t Shakespeare, satire is a social necessity.
Porn doesn’t necessarily rewire our sexual preferences.
The deposition videos of two psychologists who ran the C.I.A.’s enhanced-interrogation program are chilling.
Because I refused to be drafted, I was locked up for almost two years.
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