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5 museum-grade cartoons about Trump's Smithsonian purgeCartoons Artists take on institutional rebranding, exhibit interpretation, and more
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Settling the West Bank: a death knell for a Palestine state?In the Spotlight The reality on the ground is that the annexation of the West Bank is all but a done deal
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Codeword: August 23, 2025The Week's daily codeword puzzle
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Are zoos ethical?The Explainer Examining the pros and cons of supporting these controversial institutions
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Will COVID-19 wind up saving lives?The Explainer By spurring vaccine development, the pandemic is one crisis that hasn’t gone to waste
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Coronavirus vaccine guide: Everything you need to know so farThe Explainer Effectiveness, doses, variants, and methods — explained
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The climate refugees are here. They're Americans.The Explainer Wildfires are forcing people from their homes in droves. Where will they go now?
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Coronavirus' looming psychological crisisThe Explainer On the coming epidemic of despair
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The growing crisis in cosmologyThe Explainer Unexplained discrepancies are appearing in measurements of how rapidly the universe is expanding
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What if the car of the future isn't a car at all?The Explainer The many problems with GM's Cruise autonomous vehicle announcement
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The threat of killer asteroidsThe Explainer Everything you need to know about asteroids hitting Earth and wiping out humanity
