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US Diesel Prices Hit a Record High

WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP
Diesel hit a record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time as the six-month war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel.

I Refused To Train the AI That Could Replace Me

James Maisiri rest of world
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.

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Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Gloria Steinem The New Yorker
When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come.

How We Get to Medicare for All

Nancy J. Altman Common Dreams
Health care should be available to everyone in America as a right—automatic and free of charge when we need it. Rich or poor, sick or healthy, old or young, no matter where you live, everyone should have high-quality health care.

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters

Peter Elkind, Jen Fifield, Doug Bock Clark, Ken B. Morales and Andy Mannix ProPublica
Though voting-related investigations have yielded only a small number of prosecutions, voter advocacy groups worry the Trump administration will use them to justify more extreme interventions.