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Aug 14, 2026

What does Lisa Demuth's victory mean for the future of the Republican Party in Minnesota?

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell fell in Tuesday’s Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth, a sign that President Donald Trump‘s endorsement wasn’t enough to get the 2020 election denier over the finish line. Tuesday’s results set up what is expected to be a fierce general election between Demuth and Sen. Amy Klobuchar […]

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Economy

Aug 14, 2026

What are the benefits and risks of Tether's financial audit for the future of stablecoins and cryptocurrency regulation?

KPMG U.S. issued an "unqualified audit opinion" on Tether International’s full 2025 financial statements, Tether said Thursday

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Society

Aug 14, 2026

What steps can California take to improve safety and protect women inmates from abuse in prisons?

The Trump administration threatened legal action against California on Thursday after an investigation found an “unbroken pattern” of sexual misconduct by employees at two state women’s prisons. In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon at the Justice Department said investigators had reasonable cause to believe the […]

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Politics

Aug 15, 2026

What are the possible effects of financial gifts to politicians on public trust and election outcomes?

The leader of the far-right Reform UK party reclaimed his Clacton seat, triggering the reopening of a parliamentary standards probe into a £5 million donation from a crypto billionaire

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Society

Sep 05, 2026

Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ended in a Deadlock

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind

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Society

Sep 05, 2026

Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril

The writer, who recently released a new novel, speaks with The New Yorker’s Doreen St. Félix about the meaning of home in an era when Haitian Americans are targeted for mass deportation

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Geopolitics

Aug 15, 2026

What should be done to protect civilians in Ukraine and Russia during the ongoing conflict?

UN monitors say civilian casualties in Ukraine hit their highest monthly level since the start of Russia's full-scale war. The latest attacks included a Russian drone strike on a train, killing two workers. DW has more

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Geopolitics

Aug 15, 2026

Chartbook 466: The Straits of Kaub and seven centuries of German political economy.

Since the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the whole world has been obsessing over the Straits of Hormuz

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Geopolitics

Aug 15, 2026