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Days before the election, at a church in Georgia, Trump promised that he intended to put Christian leaders “directly in the Oval Office.” Here are a few things  to track as Trump’s second term begins.

When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. New research reveals the default mode networks's role in memory, social awareness and sense of self.

Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. It’s just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.

Michael Kosta travels to Florida to meet Bruce Friedman, the top book banner in the top book-banning state. #DailyShow #Florida #BookBan

Canada. Mexico. Great Britain. Before assuming office, Trump is launching attacks on the closest partners of the United States, and is meeting with embarrassing rebuffs.

The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation

The past is prolog: after living in the U.S. for 18 years, a father is swept up in the largest workplace raid in ICE history, a daughter's quinceñera goes on