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Mail ballot mirages aren’t fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn’t a complete myth
Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.
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The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.
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Detroit wants to elevate youth voices in leadership – that means giving them real power
Building relationships and creating equitable opportunities are critical to engaging Detroit’s young people in safe and positive activities.
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College professors face an emerging challenge: We know students are no longer reading entire books
Some teachers increasingly are shifting their approach to reading, assigning fewer books than they once did.
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New Trump administration rules on federal science funding could make American research slower, costlier and harder to share
Beyond deprioritizing scientific merit, the Trump administration’s proposal also restricts researchers’ ability to share their findings and collaborate with each other.
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Putin under pressure but history tells us most Russian leaders die with their boots on
It’s extremely rare for a Russian leader to be ousted in a coup.
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Meet Likweli – the newly named monkey that hints at Congo’s hidden secrets
It’s rare for a completely new primate species to be named.
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The way Australia taxes gas production is stuck in the past – this is why companies aren’t paying their fair share
The existing tax fails to capture a fair share of our vast gas exports.
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Britain’s quarter century: Blair, populism and the battle over human rights
How the political debate has shifted in the last 25 years.
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Ukraine war: inside the longstanding conflict between politicians and military commanders
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has just dismissed both his defence minister and commander-in-chief.
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Grattan on Friday: One Nation’s spectre hangs over Labor national conference
Labor National Conference kicked off in Adelaide, with much fanfare and unity but without some of the tougher debates of old.
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The illegal US war on Iran – and now the economic consequences shock
ANALYSIS: By Lim Tean America’s entire emergency oil reserve now covers 16 days. Sixteen. The world spent 40 years building a shock absorber for exactly this war — and burned it down in five months. What comes next isn’t just a higher petrol price. It’s a bill mailed to every fragile economy on earth, at