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In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused.

My weather app says it’s 80 degrees, but that’s a lie. I’m standing on a football field at Portland State University with professor Vivek Shandas, and we can feel intense heat radiating off the grass. Instead of being made of cellulose, these blades are plastic, because this field is artificial turf.

A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging, and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s spread.

Food labelling combined with higher prices for carbon-intensive foods could help reduce UK greenhouse gases by five per cent.

Attempts at control are futile. Policy should now turn to defense.

The Iran war has underscored the need for a change in state psychology.

No country is closer to joining the European Union than Montenegro.

Britain’s new Prime Minister blames four decades of neoliberalism for national malaise — and continental progressives should pay attention.

Amid extreme heat, demonstrators are protesting power cuts—and the governments behind them.

Iraqi militias backed by Tehran are the latest targets in the ever-expanding conflict.

The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.

Trump needs to learn the diplomatic art of losing well.

Rand Paul wants Anthony Fauci in prison for not confirming a conspiracy theory, but the key to blunting the next pandemic is universal healthcare.

India’s youth-led protest movement led to a rare instance of the government giving in.

Just a few weeks before Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949, President Harry Truman elaborated his “Fair Deal”

Trump’s latest war is wrapped up in his egocentric narcissism and his me, me, me world.

New calculations seem to have put a 25-year-old particle physics puzzle to rest. But they’ve also created a clash with other experimental results.

Building an independent defense industry does not mean going it alone.

How to build a world order with leaders who prefer Trump to Carney.

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.