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The pandemic hastened the rise of digital reading for school assignments. But for most students, print is the most effective way to learn.
The Biden administration’s 30x30 conservation plan demands restoration of the two Utah national monuments that President Trump eviscerated.
The progression of ALS involves the slow erosion of the voluntary muscles, already well underway in my vocal cords and mouth.
We need to end a culture of obstetric racism that has resulted in a maternal mortality rate for Black women that is around three times that of white women.
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Sixty years ago, a preteen white girl in Alabama tended to Freedom Riders after their bus was firebombed. Her life would never be the same.
The state took the high road reforming its redistricting process. But now it will have one fewer tool in the battle to keep Democrats in power.
Eli Broad envisioned Grand Avenue as DTLA’s Champs-Élysées. Instead it may be a memorial to an urbanism of big gestures that is passing into history.
Nonfungible tokens are a dressed-up species of bookkeeping. But what art needs is less auditing and more ecstasy.
Narendra Modi’s suppression of dissent has brought India to its knees and tens of thousands of Indians to their deathbeds.
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McCarthy wants to be the next House speaker. That requires placating Republicans who hate Cheney and believe the election was stolen from Trump.
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Only about 3.6 million babies were born in 2020, down from about 3.75 million in 2019. The birth rate in the U.S. hasn’t been this low since 1979.
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Even if we aggressively move away from fossil fuels, sea level will keep rising for centuries because greenhouse gases are baked into the atmosphere.
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Arizona’s Republican leaders show how far the party will go to embrace Trump’s lies and prevent people from voting in the future.
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Because of bias and stereotyping, Asian Americans are the least likely racial group to be promoted to management and executive positions.
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Some inflation this year won’t indicate that the economy is overheating or that we’re falling into the stagflation of the 1970s.
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Social media needs independent supervision. The decision by Facebook’s Oversight Board on whether to permanently exile Trump from the site proves that.
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The network repeatedly invited Rudolph W. Giuliani and others who peddled conspiracy theories falsely suggesting the presidential election had been rigged.
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Eli Broad was the model of rich-man civic engagement in L.A. in recent decades. But less visible grassroots social movements have been equally powerful.
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There are three reasons why we know the Justice Department’s Giuliani investigation is righteous.
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FDR’s transformative agenda was a direct result of popular support. Biden’s agenda is closer to the opposite.
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Even if unplugged, social platforms should be accountable to the communities they once fostered and give users better ways to keep their memories.
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Anne Marie Schubert, the Sacramento County district attorney, could be the way conservative governance makes its way back in a one-party state.
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As the 18,395 people expected to be sleeping in L.A. shelters tonight understand too well, they may be sheltered, but they are still homeless.
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My daughter’s Advanced Placement text teaches Black history, Indigenous history, labor history and more very, very badly.
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Vaccine hesitancy is making herd immunity for COVID-19 seem more elusive than ever. Could that change once the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is authorized for children as young as 12?
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Experts had previously expressed concern that waning demand and uneven vaccination rates could make it hard to reach the herd immunity goal.
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U.S. expands use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for children as young as 12 to get shots.
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Coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic and health news.
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Months after his rehab stint, comedian John Mulaney is divorcing artist Anna Marie Tendler, his wife of nearly seven years.
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The proposal to deliver $8 billion in new cash payments to millions of Californians amid the COVID-19 pandemic is part of a $100-billion state budget that has swelled with a significant windfall of tax revenues.
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The organization said the perception that many members are not serious journalists is “outdated and unfair” and that it is committed to addressing the lack of Black members.
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In a vaccination effort that resembles a get-out-the-vote campaign, California is hiring 2,000 canvassers and working to target people who need vaccines.
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With coronavirus infection rates at record lows and vaccines soon to be offered to kids as young as 12, parents have entered a new phase of risk assessment.
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