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Lawmakers are overreacting to crime

Crime rates are falling. Why are lawmakers passing tough-on-crime bills?

We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.

The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

But it’s not yet clear they’ve settled on a rationale for doing so.

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The potential TikTok ban is now law. What happens next?

What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained.

Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

And for decades, schools have tried to crack down on their activism.

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Columbia’s free-speech fight

Daily Spectator news editor Sarah Huddleston reports on the protests at her university. AAUP President Irene Mulvey explains the stakes for campus free speech.

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