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The government is shirking the work required for membership

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How a powerful activist group is threatening science

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It is also angering the rest of Europe

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He is wisely overhauling Argentina’s central bank. But winning elections remains paramount

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The blazes in North America have claimed 10-80 times as many lives as those in Europe so far

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Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come

The Hong Kong bookseller died on July 2nd, aged 70

Dave Portnoy has created a loyal audience by refusing to please everyone

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A new book tells the story of an atrocity in North Carolina in 1898 and its long aftermath

Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

As tensions flare in the Gulf, triple digits could return in a flash