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Growing up, “the only white smoke young Robert Prevost ever saw” likely billowed from steelworks chimneys on Chicago’s South Side, said Thomas Dyja in The Observer (U.K.). Last week, white smoke from the Vatican signaled that he’d been elected the first North American pope in the history of the Cath...
“Are we helping create the tools of our own obsolescence? As AI systems increasingly match or exceed our cognitive abilities, we’re witnessing the twilight of human intellectual supremacy—a position we’ve held unchallenged for our entire existence. This transformation won’t arrive in some distant fu...
Gray wolves have been brought back from the brink of extinction in the U.S. Is that a good thing?How big is the U.S. wolf population? The lower 48 states are now home to about 6,000 gray wolves, concentrated mostly in the northern Rocky Mountains and around the Great Lakes. It’s a remarkable comebac...
A new Texas anti-abortion bill contains a provision that would make it impossible to challenge in state court. As well as empowering citizens to sue for $100,000 anyone who distributes abortion pills, SB2880 would also let citizens recover $100,000 from any state judge who rules on its constitutiona...
Stripping health care from the poor to help the rich sounds “pretty heartless,” said Catherine Rampell in The Washington Post. But that’s exactly what House Republicans’ proposal to overhaul Medicaid will do. Released this week as part of a sweeping bill to implement President Trump’s domestic agend...
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