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Archives for April 2014
The US has made a ton of progress in the last few decades — but air pollution is still with us.
The tax implications of selling the team before dying are enormous, thanks to the somewhat obscure stepped-up basis rule.
Regulators want to define telemedicine to exclude phones. That could hurt poor people the most.
More students than ever are speaking up to the Education Department about how their colleges handle accusations of sexual violence. Now President Obama has joined the fight.
GDP grew by only 0.1 percent in the first quarter. Here’s why.
Federal data shows that health care spending is now growing just as quickly as it was prior to the recession.
Everything you need to know about this weekend’s festivities, its history, and its biggest critics.
A new study claims that women wear too much makeup under the false impression that it’s what others like. Here’s what the results actually say.
The Fed’s April meeting is expected to yield no policy changes. Here’s why.
Yet millions have been spent attacking it this year, according to a new study.
Since 2011, capital punishment states have had to choose between dangerous, ad hoc lethal injections, or not using them at all.
The execution gone horribly awry in Oklahoma isn’t even close to the first.
The Egyptian activist and writer, who died today at age 31, was a voice of reason in unreasonable times.
Wait. Godzilla is the good guy?
A look at the demographics of the top 1 percent.