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Minnesota legalizes marijuana edibles

Parched

Map: How much air pollution is shortening lives in your community

American Medical Association moves closer to declaring gas stoves a public health risk

Latest EPA data confirms that air quality progress has stalled, and in some cases is reversing

Why dirty air hurts kids more

The latest research on what air pollution's doing to your minds and bodies

Questions and answers about Gen X and lead

The leaded generation

This week in air pollution research

You think outdoor air is dirty? Wait until you see what the air in peoples' homes looks like

Map: Where America's air is the dirtiest

Your success in life depends, in part, on the air your grandparents breathed

It's Dirty Air Month at The Why Axis!

American air is already dirtier than it was before the pandemic, according to new estimate

When millionaires decide what's news

Friday charts: Who's sharing all the garbage on social media?

Toddler-involved shootings are up 50% this year

Pandering to Trump supporters doesn't work

Congressman John Rose is decades older than his wife. They were engaged before she graduated college.

It's time to call it a genocide

CBS News hires a former Trump official, now a lobbyist for the wealthy and powerful, to offer impartial news analysis

Friday charts: pushin' carbon

20 million Americans oppose interracial marriage

Congress is old as heck

Global democracy is in retreat

Are gas prices at a record high? Yes, but in a more important sense, no.

Bamboozled by Big Toilet Paper

How an ideological boot camp turned the federal judiciary conservative

Our maternal mortality rate is a national embarrassment

For the first time, fewer than half of Americans have an unwavering faith in God

A pandemic of the overconfident

More porn, less sex: how the pandemic scrambled American intimacy

Friday charts: Violent crime up 50% among the elderly

How the Senate's legislative graveyard benefits the rich

New data on how Americans drank themselves to death during the pandemic

The American court system: Anti-democratic by design

Two-thirds of people killed by Minneapolis police are Black

New data on the New Jim Crow

What the mainstream press can learn from Joe Rogan

New data shows Americans more miserable than we've been in half a century

33% of K-12 students now subject to educational gag orders

A simple, spoiler-free analysis of letter frequency in Wordle

How Paul Giamatti broke the California wine industry

Americans are rapidly giving up on democracy

Thin ice

One year after January 6, Republican fondness for military coups grows

Reasons for Omicron optimism

Support for political violence highest in decades