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Creating geothermal wells made from the deepest holes in the world.

My survey of young people before the last midterm election found that feeling more disappointed or cynical about politics actually led to a higher, not lower, likelihood to vote.

Marcelo de Arruda was shot at his birthday party by a supporter of President Bolsonaro

College-educated workers are driving a spike in union organizing.

The Republican transformation of the federal judiciary in the 1860s and 1870s served the party well in the Civil War. But in the end, Lincoln and Grant’s high court appointments ended up being disastrous for civil rights.

Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.

A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time.

The Fed knows inflation is a problem born of insufficient supply that only governments can tackle. But that doesn’t look like stopping it from pushing the US economy, and everyone else’s, into recession.

Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb's first deep-field image taught us lessons we've never realized before.

What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul? It’s ultimately toxic for the party leadership to tacitly welcome a group currently endorsing a Republican who compared Democrats to Nazis.