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Viktor Orbán had support from Moscow and Washington, but not from his own people.

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The war sparked an epic social-media-trolling contest.

Don’t call him the quiet pope anymore.

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What happens when AI can hack everything?

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After many decades of democratization, higher education could once again become a luxury good.

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A quiet, bookish justice’s personal leanings have become ever more overt.

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A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.

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A phonics-based curriculum is only one part of how Mississippi went from worst to first in education. The other part is much harder to pull off.

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Why one early adopter of computers in classrooms has decided to toss them

CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.

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Many whole-grain foods behave in the body much the same as the refined products they were meant to replace.

The debate over immigration enforcement has crept into a brash and crass entertainment, which is less immune to reality than you’d think.

“Color-blind and merit-based” now seems to be anything but.


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