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A conversation with the editor and the founder of The Marshall Project


The new tests are harder — which isn’t a bad thing, but will lead to lower scores early on.


It doesn’t requite benefit cuts, tax hikes, or changes to the retirement age.


The Missouri governor is prepping the National Guard — and the grand jury hasn’t even come back yet.


Disney’s The Little Mermaid turns 25 today. The animated classic is known for a singing mermaid who combs her hair with forks and a comical West Indian crab, but the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that inspired the film is a much darker, much mor


The decline has been slightly faster than the drop among the general population, where the uninsured rate fell by by about a quarter.


The federal government should focus on being nimble and adaptable


A new project to use satellite data to track illegal fishing.


There are outbreaks of bird flu on farms in Europe that have health officials worried.


We still don’t know where exactly Philae is — but we’re getting a little closer.

Everything you need to know about the shape we’re in, how we got here, and the cost of this public-health crisis.


It involves Robert Patrick.


Here are three well-known philosophical one-liners you’re probably using incorrectly.
Ron Fournier says Obama should have imitated Romneycare. But he did.


Because Thiel pays students to skip college, many people in higher ed roll their eyes at him. But his ideas are worth another look.