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Birthrates Languish in Record Lows, C.D.C. Reports

admin25 April 2025

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.

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Gov. Josh Shapiro: Finding Moral Clarity After an Arsonist’s Attack

admin25 April 2025

I woke up to yelling in the hallway. A few seconds later, there was a bang on the door. It was just after 2 a.m., and a state trooper in the hallway of our private living quarters at the governor’s residence said there was a fire in the building. We ...

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Mexico Is Becoming a Beacon

admin25 April 2025

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We know one type of migration well. It’s millions of people from poorer countries traveling mostly to wealthy countries ...

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Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not.

admin25 April 2025

The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution. As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “The provision for defense must in ...

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How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart

admin25 April 2025

Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the sixth- or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas. She was the center of attention ...

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Lawyer Up? Increasingly, Americans Won’t, or Can’t.

admin25 April 2025

Janae Gossel had been questioning the witness for about 90 seconds when the judge began to show signs of exasperation. Listen to this article, read by Robert Fass Listen · 28:48 min“If you ask a question, let him answer the question,” said Joseph ...

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Why the White House Started Making Deportation Cartoons

admin25 April 2025

The Trump administration hasn’t yet delivered huge deportation numbers — but it is using the internet to provide regular deportation spectacles.

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5 Takeaways From New Research About A.D.H.D.

admin25 April 2025

Scientists who study the condition are wrestling with some fundamental questions about the way we define and treat it.

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What Happened to the Francis Revolution?

admin25 April 2025

How will history judge Pope Francis’ legacy? It seems reasonable to predict that for many progressive Catholics and others who hoped he would prove to be a revolutionary, his papacy will be remembered as a disappointment. Although Francis ...

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My Son Has a Rare Syndrome. So I Turned to the Internet.

admin25 April 2025

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the lights and stood astride her mysterious station. She worked her probe into the hard rind of my belly and offered selections ...

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