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Public health funding cuts are risking the progress the nation has made in fighting and preventing many forms of the dreaded disease. But few people know it yet.

Joan Walsh

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Internal Family Systems has been wholeheartedly embraced by celebrities and desperate patients alike. But is it a science—or a scam?

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Cornell University student and pro-Palestine activist Momodou Taal.

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Laura Loomer, a right-wing pundit and supporter of former president Donald Trump, outside the United States Federal Courthouse where Trump is scheduled to be arraigned later in the day on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.

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The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.

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James Schuyler in New York City, 1988.

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Jürgen Habermas in Berlin, Germany, 2018.

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Michael Stewart’s Death Still Haunts New York

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In 1985, police were acquitted in the killing of a graffiti artist and painter, a grisly act that galvanized the city’s art underground. Why has he been forgotten?

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A displaced Palestinian woman holds her child while sitting in front of her tent on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City, on March 30, 2025.

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