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The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
How bad is now becoming clearer #press
America’s states are pursuing their own foreign policies
State legislatures are becoming another front in America’s clash with China #press
Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system
The Ivy League departure could signal a turning-point in higher education #press
How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
The college essay may be dying, but AI has plenty of upsides in education #press
Why many American states and cities are changing their flags
Farewell fussy seals, hello simple pine trees and beehives #press
Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty
They hope that whipping up maternal fervour will propel them to the nomination #press
Joe Biden should run against the Ivy League
The Supreme Court has given him the chance to restore his party’s commitment to uplift for all #press
Donald Trump is facing his most serious charges yet
The Republican front-runner for 2024 is indicted for plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss #press
Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age
America tolerates rates of early death well beyond those of other rich countries #press
Joe Biden donates weapons to Taiwan, as he does to Ukraine
Will it forestall a crisis with China, or provoke one? #press
America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
The Biden administration is pouring billions into the industry. The payoff isn’t certain #press
In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife’s lover
“Heart-balm” torts are a legal anachronism at the centre of a statehouse drama #press
The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden’s student-debt-relief plan
But the president says the fight isn’t over for a programme that would have benefited 43m Americans #press
Can baseball fans be won over by the world’s second-biggest sport?
America’s first-ever professional cricket tournament starts on July 13th #press
The FDA approves the first-ever non-prescription birth-control pill
Progressives hope it will blunt the effect of abortion bans #press
Oppenheimer’s secret city is a shrine to the Manhattan Project
A tiny town in New Mexico is proud to be the place the bomb was invented #press
The Biden administration embraces place-based industrial policy
But building whole industries from scratch is easier promised than done #press
Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America’s big cities
And death rates may rise further #press
Donald Trump is in his most serious legal trouble yet
The former president faces federal charges of mishandling classified documents #press
How LA’s drag nuns took centre stage in the culture wars
A backlash against gay-pride festivities is rooted in gender-identity politics #press