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Social media design influences human behavior, and the Big Tech platforms use it to boost profits - and their owners' political agendas. Some smaller platforms are using design to support democracy.

Five years after first putting forward the notion of 'active nonalignment,' former Chilean ambassador Jorge Heine returns to the subject.

Americans are realizing that the country's two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn't doing the trick.

Many of the world's best and brightest STEM researchers have long moved to the US. But now that brain gain is at risk of reversing to become a brain drain, with science funding and visas in chaos.

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended from office. Meanwhile, leading activists languish behind bars on 'lèse majesté' offenses.

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.

Drastic cuts to Medicaid and other public health provisions in the new law will mean even less money to rural hospitals, many of which are already at risk of closing.

Work requirements will expand and exemptions from them will recede. How much states have to pay will be tied to the prevalence of mistakes, not fraud.

A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.

A provision in the big legislative package and a related Supreme Court ruling mark the culmination of a strategy to defund the health care provider that was in full swing by 2007.