A woman hugs a girl as they cry during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas,
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America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained
A person grieves at a makeshift memorial set up outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25. | Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty
Why Boeing’s successful Starliner test is a big deal
Boeing’s Starliner took off for the International Space Station on May 19. | Joel Kowsky/NASA Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally has some competition. Starliner, a space
Countries are limiting food exports. It may make global hunger worse.
Farmers harvest wheat on the outskirts of Jammu, India, on April 30. A recent heat wave has affected the yield of India’s wheat crops. |
With Ricky Gervais’s new special, Netflix yet again suffers transphobic fools
Ricky Gervais performs in Netflix’s 2018 special Humanity. The comedian’s latest Netflix special has come under fire for transphobia. | Ray Burmiston/Netflix Does Netflix even
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s new crypto project sounds like a scam within a scam
Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork and the crypto company Flowcarbon, speaks at an event in Shanghai in 2018. | Jackal Pan/Visual China Group via Getty
In Appalachia, a race to preserve the practice of plant healing
Andrew Bentley points out an eastern hemlock tree during a hike in the Red River Gorge at the Daniel Boone National Forest in eastern Kentucky
America’s gun violence epidemic, in one chart
Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky, on July 22, 2021. | Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US has lots of gun violence.
How the Supreme Court made it impossible to solve America’s gun violence problem
Supporters of gun control and firearm safety measures protest outside the US Supreme Court in December 2019. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images If you
What we know about the Uvalde elementary school massacre
Law enforcement officers work the scene at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, after an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 people and at