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Why every American graduation plays the same song

The White House press briefing is dying

Why the world is worried about Turkey

Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Here’s what you need to know.

Food waste is the world's dumbest problem

Where should we send Johnny next?

What happens when you bring meditation to public schools

What you need to know about the House vote to repeal Obamacare

Cory Booker: Why Trump should try being nice on Twitter

Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness

How a melancholy egg yolk conquered Japan

Ezra Klein: 100 days of Trump’s flailing presidency

Fox News' problem is a lot bigger than Bill O'Reilly

Going green shouldn't be this hard

How sanctuary cities actually work

Why Philadelphia has thousands of murals

How Google's featured answers can go terribly wrong

Marine Le Pen: France’s Trump is on the rise

Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change

I’m a Tea Party conservative. Here’s how to win over Republicans on renewable energy.

CNN treats politics like sports — and it’s making us all dumber

I was a prominent neo-Nazi. Ignoring white extremists is a mistake.

Why peregrine falcons are the fastest animals on earth

I'm a Syrian-American journalist. Syria is more than the headlines.

What it's like to give a kidney to a stranger

The algorithm that could help end partisan gerrymandering

Syria's war: Who is fighting and why

Trump's strikes against Syria, in one minute

Ezra Klein: Why Neil Gorsuch is the wrong justice for a divided country

Why Drake uses a Jamaican accent

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Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Trump

Why losing a dog feels like losing a family member

Why knights fought snails in medieval art

How a case gets to the US Supreme Court

How sign language innovators are bringing music to the deaf

We're the only daily news source in our part of rural Alaska. Trump's budget would devastate us.

From spy to president: The rise of Vladimir Putin

China's panda diplomacy, explained

Bad typography has ruined more than just the Oscars

This is your brain on terrorism

The economics of beard popularity in the US

How America's justice system is rigged against the poor

How poaching is changing the face of African elephants

The GOP health care plan: The more you need, the less you get

How a dictionary writer defines English

Meet the designer cats with wild blood

How to impeach a president