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A new poll finds that Americans have a lot of concerns about buying and riding in self-driving cars — even if they find the technology promising.


If you find a deposit of dried bird excrement on an island that no country occupied or exercises control over, you can claim that island for America. That is a real law.


Separate entrances is fine. The real affordable housing crisis is the chronic undersupply of new units.


Jewish Israelis’ biggest criticism of the Gaza war is that the government isn’t using enough force.


A new study shows that we attach social judgments to accents.


Wage growth is at its highest point in more than five years.


The Center for Science in the Public Interest scoured the country for the worst waistline offenders. Here are the winners.


The government spends $16 billion annually on training doctors, and many stakeholders are clamoring for more. Would that be money well-spent?


And the fact that people don’t know this is a problem.


“Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans,” he says, “is genetically modified food.”


“The drugs are out there. It’s much more of a situation with economic and logistical challenges.”


It’s a laughing matter to some Americans. But for the poor and minorities, it’s a civil rights issue.


A long, strange, and pointless journey that ends up with nobody getting paid.




Underneath all of the low-fi special effects is an ambitious film setting out to dispense messages about our country, how we live, our healthcare system, and even race (we think).