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Brains are the last frontier of privacy

Illustration of a brain wrapped up in a lock and chains.

Deep Dive: Higher education's existential crisis

Photo illustration of New School students protesting tuition increases
Sep 21, 2019

Exclusive: Where skills anxiety is highest

What matters to college students today

Photo illustration of students holding up newspapers.
Updated Sep 21, 2019

The promising decline in global child mortality

Chart depicting the number of under-five deaths cause of mortality
Sep 21, 2019 - Economy

How Hope Hicks is doing in Hollywood

Hope Hicks walking as she's about to fling her suitcase with a crowd behind her

Photo from Greta Thunberg's 2018 climate strike shows massive growth over a year

This image is a two-way screen of Greta Thunberg sitting in a yellow raincoat and Greta speaking into a microphone.
Sep 21, 2019 - Politics & Policy

Joe Kennedy formally launches campaign against senator who sponsored the Green New Deal

Joe Kennedy talking on the phone
Sep 21, 2019

Poverty is still a huge problem in America

Sep 20, 2019 - World

U.S. to send troops to Saudi Arabia

Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper at Pentagon press conference

Trump's defiance on Ukraine

illustration of trump, rudy guiliani and biden
Sep 20, 2019 - Technology

Facebook suspends "tens of thousands" of apps amid developer probe

Trump administration reaches asylum deal with El Salvador

Migrants are led out of the National Institue of Migration in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Seen through a chain link fence.
Sep 20, 2019

Trump to meet Ukrainian president at UN amid whistleblower controversy

Sep 20, 2019 - Health

Walmart to discontinue e-cigarette sales amid regulatory uncertainty

Updated Sep 20, 2019 - Energy & Climate

In photos: Youth climate protests take over the world

Students protesting climate change in the Philippines

Wall Street is scared of Elizabeth Warren

Illustration of Sen. Elizabeth Warren scaring big tech and big farms
Updated Sep 20, 2019 - World

Trump says U.S. will impose "highest sanctions ever" on Iran's central bank

Collage of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and President Trump

Massive companies' green commitments can't save the planet

Google campus in Mountain View, Calif.
Sep 20, 2019

Economists see sustained low growth, but no recession

A downward trending market trend line that plateaus and then stops, at the edge of the line is the Earth, teetering on the edge.
Sep 20, 2019 - Politics & Policy

Bill de Blasio drops out of 2020 presidential race

Bill de Blasio.
Sep 20, 2019 - World

Trump's Middle East envoy meets with Netanyahu after election loss

Sep 20, 2019

Average U.S. student debt hits record

Illustration of a graduation cap being weighed down by a ball and chain as the tassel.

Zuckerberg's D.C. charm tour

Photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg exiting a security gate next to an American flag

Tech takes over political fundraising

Democrats target over 26,000 local races to unseat Republicans

Sep 20, 2019 - Health

Democrats and the "public option" options

Illustration of democratic donkey wearing stethoscope and medical mask

Venezuela refugee crisis overwhelms Colombia: "We don't have the money"

WaPo: Trump "promise" reported by whistleblower involves Ukraine

Trump speaking to reporters.
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