Orange County Supervisor of Elections workers prepare mailed ballots for the high-speed tabulator in the Vote-By-Mail Ballot Counting Room, on Aug. 18, 2020. | Ricardo
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Voters don’t actually care about student loan forgiveness
Christina Animashaun/Vox; Getty Images Canceling student loans might not be as big of a midterms boost for Democrats as they’d hoped. Seven weeks out from
Tearing down the academic research paywall could come with a price
Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Why hide taxpayer-funded research behind paywalls? It’s complicated. Right now, the majority of published scientific findings — and the vast
DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard flights escalate GOP immigration stunts
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Migrants boarded the flights after being given questionable information about what awaited them. Dozens of migrants to the US, most of them
2 big winners and 3 big losers from the 2022 primaries
US Senate candidate Mehmet Oz speaks as former President Donald Trump backs him during a campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on September 3. | Ed
The racist backlash to The Little Mermaid and Lord of The Rings is exhausting and extremely predictable
Halle Bailey stars as Ariel in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. | IMDB Lord of the Rings and The Little Mermaid are just
Why it’s so hard to rewrite a country’s constitution
People who supported the new constitution draft demonstrate in demand of a new constitutional process, a day after voters rejected the draft in a referendum,
Ukraine wants more weapons. But can Europe provide?
A Russian soldier, taken prisoner by Ukrainian soldiers, lies on a tank on September 11 in Izyum, Ukraine, shortly after the city was recaptured from
Even Putin allies are starting to speak out about the war
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 9. | Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images Here’s what
How Ukraine got the upper hand against Russia
Ukraine’s breakthrough counterattack, explained. In the spring and summer of 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia settled into a stalemate. The first phase of