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The European Union has used money and enforcement infrastructure as the twin pillars of its migrant returns strategy. The evidence suggests it isn’t working.
Assessments are often treated as culturally neutral when they are not.
Global supply chains lead to companies capturing most of the value, while suppliers – and especially workers – get a much smaller share.
With spectacle, personality clashes and corruption increasingly defining American politics, it was only a matter of time before TMZ would set its sights on the Beltway.
Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.
Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.
New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.
A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide.
White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.
Ann Patchett’s 11th novel follows a daughter and father who reunite and learn to be better to each other.
Beneath the horrifying labyrinth, Backrooms tells a familiar story of foreclosed futures, precarity and frustrated aspirations.
The Arctic was not simply a cold edge of the Cretaceous world, but a place where mammals adapted, diversified, migrated and originated.