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Americans Want Government-Run Health Care—What’s Standing in the Way?

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It’s true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven health care system.

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?

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The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

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New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism.

Our Planet Versus Plastic Bags—A Tale of Two Cities

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Americans discard 100 billion plastic bags annually, the equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil.

Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets?

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The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington Post’s police shootings database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people last year. In comparison, there were 1,048 shooting fatalities at the hands of police the year before, 1,019 the year before that, 997 the year before that, and so on.