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Digital Technology Helps Governments Target Critics Across Borders

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Australia’s Wondrous Time Without News on Facebook Is About to End

Rachel Withers

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The U.S. Is Making It Harder for the Rest of the World to Get COVID Vaccines

Jane C. Hu

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The U.S. Has Released the Most Comprehensive Catalog of North Korean Cybercrimes Ever Made Public

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The Texas Crisis Shows (Again) There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster

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In Australia, Facebook Blocks News (and Everything Remotely Newsworthy)

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Why Are COVID-19 Cases Really Falling?

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Maddie Stone

Feb 18, 2021 2:13 PM

Parler Is Back and So Are Users Who Cheered on the Capitol Insurrection

Aaron Mak

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The Heat Belt Is a Glimpse Into a Climate-Changed America

Duke Reiter and Wyatt Scott

Feb 18, 2021 9:00 AM

Why Is NASA Sending a Helicopter to Mars?

Ned Potter

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Why the Quest for the Ninth Successful Landing on Mars Is Unlike Any That Have Come Before

Jim Bell

Feb 17, 2021 9:00 AM

3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible

Ari Schneider

Feb 16, 2021 2:27 PM

Who Deserves to Have Their Past Mistakes “Forgotten”? Newspapers Are Trying to Figure It Out.

Rachael Allen

Feb 16, 2021 12:45 PM

We Worried About Kids and the Internet. We Should Have Been Worried About Adults.

Sherman Dorn

Feb 15, 2021 5:45 AM

Future Tense Newsletter: The Fascinating, Fraught History of Vaccines in the U.S.

Torie Bosch

Feb 13, 2021 10:00 AM

E-Bikes for Everyone!

The Mexican Elites Who Are Traveling to the U.S. to Get Vaccinated

Report: A Software Flaw in Arizona Is Keeping People Behind Bars

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