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From 2015 to 2018, I spent 15 months doing research work in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. As an anthropologist, I was interested in everyday life in Iran outside the capital Tehran. I was also interested in understanding whether the ambitions of the 1979 Revolution lived on among “ordinary” Iranians, not…

Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled on June 25, 2025, in a 6-3 decision that people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance don’t have that right.

Is New York big enough for the two of them?

America's housing shortage is worst in Western states. That's also where the federal government owns the most land.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says his country has delivered a "slap to America’s face” with its strike on an American base in Qatar and warned against any further U.S. attacks on Iran

This is what America has come to - we are cringing, but not surprised.

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Free speech, assembly, and protest—not government action—have powered LGBTQ+ progress in America.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted that one of the points on his agenda, removing fluoride from water supplies across the nation, would probably cause Americans to get more cavities hence worsening dental health in the United States.