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The pickle-obsessed can now order a pickle pizza with a side of pickle potato chips, wash it down with a pickle beer and…
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Two men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 have been found guilty. Their backgrounds and…
Escalating legal restrictions throughout the US might mean an increase in mental health disorders for those who are denied…
The Chautauqua movement symbolized progressive reformers’ hopes that public learning could create a healthy democracy.
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The spread of misinformation in many pandemics, including the smallpox and 1918 influenza outbreaks, have undermined efforts…
Those who seek to cause harm are as capable of generating creative ideas as anyone else. Two psychologists and counterterrorism…
An experiment conducted online with residents of Italy and the US detected similar patterns based on ideological identity.
While the new law doesn’t resurrect the Clean Power Plan, it boosts EPA’s ability to take stronger actions under the…
Trump’s lawsuit against the FBI has been criticized as baseless. But it spotlights a loophole in federal law that doesn’t…
Ukraine is marking its 31st year of independence on Aug. 24, 2022. A scholar of protest movements explains why Ukrainians…
Data collection is big business in the US, but a bipartisan data privacy bill rapidly moving through Congress promises to…