A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.

For my part, I knew that I had fallen in love with Dry Leaf when another cow—or was it a horse? —ambled through the frame enfolded in a pixelated outline distinct from the rest of the sky behind it. I understood that what I was looking at was the byproduct of a ringing artifact, a ghost at the meeting point of cow and sky.
A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

A symbolic DNC resolution could force Democrats to take a stand on the millions the increasingly toxic AIPAC spends on Democratic primaries.

The normalisation of war demands not the burial of international law, but its urgent reinvention — and Europe must lead the charge.
The Trump administration and major refiners are using the war to justify restarting oil production and weakening climate rules.
Nikhil Pal Singh on building bigger coalitions and where the opposition goes in this increasingly hostile protest environment.
The group’s increasing anti-war push shows how progressives are leveraging an unpopular war in the midterms.