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The American people would like to see higher taxes on the rich. That’s not the impression you might get tuning into TV news, which covers the idea of raising taxes as a controversial, fringe idea — seen most recently when…
As the partial government shutdown enters its third week with little signs of progress, President Donald Trump has begun to float a new idea for building his border wall: declaring a national emergency. He could probably do it. Trump, apparently…
Despite an opioid crisis, most ERs don’t offer addiction treatment. California is changing that. This is what it looks like when we stop treating addiction as a moral failure. By German Lopez@germanrlopez Updated Jan 8, 2019, 11:25am EST Share Tweet…
There is, though you might not immediately notice it, a segment of the internet that has spent the past month semi-riveted by the suspension and reinstatement of the legendary weird Twitter account @Four_Pins. The account, best known for memes about…
Though its subject matter is rescue missions, Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary “Lifeboat” has a patient pace and an emphasis on the sensory. Six minutes into Skye Fitzgerald’s half-hour documentary “Lifeboat,” Jon Castle, the soft-spoken captain of a boat that rescues…
Starting this month, the venerable music podcast “Song Exploder,” which has been hosted and produced by the musician Hrishikesh Hirway for the past five years, will have a new host: the appealing Thao Nguyen, of Thao & the Get Down…
