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[ad_1] This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The stories have become horribly familiar: houses so overrun by bedbugs that the bloodsucking insects pile an...
[ad_1] Several years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to eat more plants. Doing so, I assumed, would be better for my health, for animals,...
[ad_1] After decades of gains in public acceptance, the LGBTQ community is confronting a climate in which political leaders are once again calling them weirdos and...
[ad_1] One night in July, a few weeks after my son was born, I lay awake, desperately scrolling through photos of injured feet. The mounting pain...
[ad_1] Thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential term, the conservative legal movement has been able to realize some of its wildest dreams: overturning the constitutional right to...
[ad_1] When Donald Trump first took office, he put a premium on what he called “central casting” hires—people with impressive résumés who matched his image of...
[ad_1] Where to even start in cataloging the most ridiculous—and alarming—recent rulings to come out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit? There’s...
[ad_1] The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to visit California,...
[ad_1] Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak...
[ad_1] Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its culture has proved hostile to at least one category...
[ad_1] In the early 1990s, while studying preeclampsia in Guadeloupe, Pierre-Yves Robillard hit upon a realization that seemed to shake the foundations of his field. Preeclampsia,...
[ad_1] This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d have to...
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[ad_1] For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like...
[ad_1] “Let’s travel now to moonlit valleys blanketed with heather,” Harry Styles says to me. The pop star’s voice—just shy of songful, velvet-dry—makes it seem as...
[ad_1] Harvesting wild local produce in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park may not seem like the best idea. And yet, on a foraging tour of the lively public...
[ad_1] Real-life Ron DeSantis was here, finally. In the fidgety flesh; in Iowa, South Carolina, and, in this case, New Hampshire. Not some distant Sunshine State...
[ad_1] In 1856, an amateur chemist named William Henry Perkin mixed a batch of chemicals that he hoped, in vain, would yield the malaria drug quinine....
[ad_1] Kyrsten Sinema knows what everybody says about her. She pretends not to read the press coverage—“I don’t really care”—but she knows. She knows what her...