Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Kidney disease is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. Since 1998, more than 100,000 Americans have died while on a kidney waiting list. And […]
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Decisions that occurred outside public view helped produce the nation’s housing crisis. Mario Tama / Getty September 22, 2024, 6 AM ET Earlier this year, the Pentagon swooped in to give Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s Democratic governor, the perfect reason to
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In 2005, when the Iraq War was well under way, a couple of political scientists looked at how people responded when they were told that Iraq did
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts In 2020, the law professors John Rappaport and Ben Grunwald published an article called “The Wandering Officer,” where they found that police officers who had been fired
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Total and complete victory. For a niche technocratic movement hyper-obsessed with increasing the supply of housing, that’s what the past few weeks in Democratic politics have felt like. In recent years, a remote-work-induced housing-market boom has pushed housing affordability higher
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There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal know-how or protection. The UC Berkeley
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The election is a “fight for America’s future,” Kamala Harris said in her speech to the Democratic National Convention tonight. She painted a picture of what a second Trump presidency might look like: chaotic and dangerous. Donald Trump would take
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