Browsing: Social Issues

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Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce child poverty by the end of the parliament, as the prime minister comes under mounting pressure to end…

Three weeks ago, Donald Trump attended the opening of an immigrant-detention center in the Florida Everglades, about 50 miles west of Miami. “Pretty soon, this facility…

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Right after my daughter, Maggie, was born in 2012, she held her hands clasped together against her chest. “Like she’s praying!” a nurse said in a…

For all of the eons that animal life has existed on Earth, the sun has been there, too. And for all of those eons, animal life…

Metal bottle caps can be a significant source of microplastic contamination in beverages, a new peer-reviewed study by France’s food safety agency finds.Researchers compared microplastic levels…

No one on the Supreme Court has gone further to enable Donald Trump’s extreme exercise of presidential power than the chief justice of the United States,…

‘This is a common question I get asked over the dinner table,” says Kimme Hyrich, a rheumatologist and professor of epidemiology at the University of Manchester.…

After Ted Hughes Out on the moors in the late June light, I stood where the infinite hills halved the sky and saw where you first…