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The plan could bring premiums down — but there’s a big catch.


Researchers have been using brain scans to try to listen to their thoughts.


The state was the first to jump on the bandwagon for the new standards, and has had better luck than other states.


The singer was happy to do a cover of “Strange Fruit,” but scared to say what the song was actually about.


When the virus met modern medicine, nearly everyone survived.


It turns out that sitting in a small, pressurized metal tube at 35,000 feet for several hours wreaks havoc on your body.


Some Wisconsin Republicans think Christie wants to knock off a 2016 rival.


Quarantining returning Ebola workers “is like driving a carpet tack with a sledgehammer.”

An interview with Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative, on the history behind Rand Paul’s worldview.


The only way to prevent Ebola’s spread is to help beat it in West Africa.


These five common consumer products have demonstrated connections to serious human rights abuses. That illustrates a major point of tension between modern capitalism and human rights.


All You Had To Do Was [Scream].


New York and New Jersey team up to punish people risking their lives to fight Ebola in West Africa.


Vox explains the biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history

