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American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate
They are much cheaper than the “crisis of college affordability” suggests #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
Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America’s big cities
And death rates may rise further #press
Nearly all Louisiana’s death-row inmates have filed for clemency
The lame-duck governor could grant it before his term ends in 2024 #press
AI is making Washington smarter
So far, lawmakers are taking cautious, bipartisan steps toward regulating it #press
Why America’s Supreme Court has ended affirmative action
The six-justice conservative majority overpowered the three liberal dissenters #press
Dick Ravitch, New York’s fiscal superman
The developer who helped save the city and later kept the subway on track died on June 25th #press
Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty
They hope that whipping up maternal fervour will propel them to the nomination #press
Chicago hopes to become a world centre for quantum research
But to what end? #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
The FDA approves the first-ever non-prescription birth-control pill
Progressives hope it will blunt the effect of abortion bans #press
The making of America’s Ivy League elite
A new paper quantifies the boost that students with rich parents get when applying to the best universities #press
Joe Biden donates weapons to Taiwan, as he does to Ukraine
Will it forestall a crisis with China, or provoke one? #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
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
America’s firefighters mostly do not fight fires
Some of them are a bit lost #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 fault lines in America’s China policy
How to make sense of the cacophony inside and outside the White House #press
The push to bring insulin prices down in America
But not all patients are able to use the available schemes #press