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/ 6 months agoElecting a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
Presidential immunity can bring with it many risks. So how can we think about the nature and limits of such immunity?
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/ 6 months agoHow Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap
Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects...
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/ 6 months agoMichigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited
Michigan’s migrant farmworkers are the backbone of the country’s second-most diverse agricultural economy. Social and labor protections for them fall short.
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/ 6 months agoFlying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so
Advances in technology, training and maintenance have helped make an inherently challenging vehicle – rotorcraft – safe.
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/ 6 months agoCould people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world
Liquid water, breathable air and a sustainable food supply are three of the essentials Mars would need for people to live...
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/ 6 months ago‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy
A scholar of political assassinations says the US just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil war when Donald...
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/ 6 months agoBiden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and other presidents showed that getting limited information as president can have some benefits – but...
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/ 6 months agoAs nativist politics surge across Europe, soccer’s ‘Euros’ showcase a more benign form of nationalism
The most successful teams at Europe’s soccer championship comprise diverse players, often thanks to immigration. Could that be influencing fans’ views...
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/ 6 months agoSupermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe has aged
X-rays emitted around black holes can tell astrophysicists about how fast they’re growing.
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/ 6 months agoMeteorites from Mars help scientists understand the red planet’s interior
These rare rocks come in a few different types, which can tell geologists about Mars’ volcanic past and hint at its...
