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Most of what gets written about travel and health focuses on the obvious: it reduces stress, it broadens perspective, it makes you feel better for a while. These things are true, and they are also incomplete. A 2024 stu…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. This morning, a friend sent me a screenshot. No caption, no…
Cairo, Illinois was promised 30 duplexes from a $1.1 million 3D printer. Fourteen months later, the printer is gone and the FBI is investigating — a…
Omaha sits on the nation's largest residential lead cleanup site, yet fewer than half the children in its most contaminated areas have ever been test…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. You did something right. Things are going well. And somehow, you…
Editor’s note: This article was originally written by Thomas Weyr in 2000 and has been updated in April 2026 to reflect current context and ensure re…
The House faces a Wednesday vote on renewing warrantless surveillance authorities, and Democratic leadership's refusal to take a position reveals som…
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. HVAC markets do not stay polite. They crowd, fragment, and intens…
The U.S. State Department is pressuring the hemisphere's human rights watchdog to ignore nearly 170 civilian deaths from military boat strikes — and…
Viktor Orbán's sixteen-year illiberal project in Hungary collapsed not because voters embraced liberal democracy in the abstract, but because an oppo…
