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  • Newt Gingrich and Bill ClintonFinance

    A Harvard professor who helped Bill Clinton balance the budget in the 1990s says Kevin McCarthy will struggle to keep that promise

    By Linda J. Bilmes and The Conversation
  • Female doctor talking about medical test to her patients at hospitalHealth

    Automatic enrollment was an absolute game changer for Medicaid—It’s about to expire and up to 14 million Americans could be left out in the cold

    By Mark Shepard and The Conversation
  • Mark Zuckerberg.Tech

    Big Tech layoffs have claimed 70,000 jobs in the last year and it could put an end to inflated salaries—along with innovation

    By Nathalie Collins, Jeff Volkheimer, and others
  • In his videos, Liver King is regularly seen eating platefuls of bull’s testicles, raw animal livers and cows’ brains. Instagram/@LiverKingHealth

    The rise and fall of the Liver King—a social media sensation who is now being sued by his followers for $25 million

    By Catalina Goanta and The Conversation
  • A close-up portrait view of a North American beaverEnvironment

    Scientists say that oysters and beavers are the eco heroes we’ve been waiting for and they’re doing all the work ‘for free’

    By Daniel Merino, Nehal El-Hadi, and others
  • A robot holding a tabletTech

    ChatGPT might be taking over the internet, but a computer scientist explains why some problems are still too hard to solve—even for AI

    By Jie Wang and The Conversation
  • Kevin McCarthyFinance

    How bad is the debt ceiling stand-off in Congress? Like potential collapse of the dollar as global ‘unit of account’ bad, economist says.

    By Michael Humphries and The Conversation
  • Two ravens sitting together.Success

    Pandering to an audience of ravens and spying like a fish: Animals have all sorts of sophisticated ways to maintain power in the wild

    By Lee Alan Dugatkin and The Conversation
  • Young farmer walking in field at sunset.Success

    Two economists who study rural America say official inflation numbers don’t count people who live outside of cities—and their own analysis shows that they could be suffering more

    By Stephen Weiler, Tessa Conroy, and others
  • Man in hard hat looking at wind turbinesEnvironment

    Two experts with front-row seats to California’s ambitious climate plan explain how the state could pull it off—and why they think it could change the world

    By Daniel Sperling and The Conversation
  • Doctor with listHealth

    Why COVID deaths are still undercounted in the U.S., according to a team of researchers looking at ‘excess deaths’

    By Andrew Stokes, Dielle Lundberg, and others
  • Passport listSuccess

    What the list of the world’s most and least powerful passports reveals, according to the author of the cultural history ‘License to Travel’

    By Patrick Bixby and The Conversation
  • Two cyclists on the Atlanta BeltLineSuccess

    The road to hell is paved with successful urban planning projects—‘green gentrification’ is driving up housing costs and creating racial exclusion

    By Dan Immergluck and The Conversation
  • People sitting at a Starbucks.Personal Finance

    Two business school professors break down the deeper reasons why Starbucks customers were so enraged when the company changed its loyalty program

    By H. Sami Karaca, Jay L. Zagorsky, and others
  • Biden and MacronEnvironment

    Joe Biden has a big European climate change problem: His plan to cut carbon emissions is so different it might be incompatible

    By Noah Kaufman, Chris Bataille, and others