Pioneered in 2006 by the Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts to serve women mostly in low-income countries where abortion was ...

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Though G.O.P. members are more likely to be viewed as “extreme,” they trounce their opponents on who is more effective.

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And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious. This will happen in the same way it became intelligent. As we interact with increasingly sophisticated A.I., we ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

Here’s the thing to understand: Every single person under, say, the age of 40 on the right is exposed to extremely high levels of groyper content every day in group chats, on their social media ...