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The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

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I’m up on Cape Cod, and I get a message from one of my staff saying, “You don’t want to see this, but you better read it.” It ...

O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

Since assuming office on January 20th, President Donald Trump has signed 53 executive orders, more than any president has in ...

U.S. scientists, unaccustomed to shock-and-awe political assaults, are reeling from President Donald Trump’s executive orders on DEI, gender and other subjects.

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Is your breakfast routine being slowly eroded by rising prices and disappearing staples? Orange juice? Endangered. Coffee?

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