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Two woman stand in kitchen, one older and one younger looking at her phone

After 17 years of ‘legal life’ in the US, a family considers its next move

Global Politics

The Trump administration is removing temporary protected status for El Salvador, a program that has permitted the Velasco family to live and work in the US since 2001. That puts them — and 200,000 other like them — at a tough crossroads.

Climate change activist Bill McKibben speaking in Waitsfield, Vermont in 2012.

To fight climate change, activist says Obama’s policy needs ‘to be as good as physics demands’

Environment

When the United Nations was new, cities fought for right to host it

Global Politics

Cancer’s New Battleground: In Uganda, Jackson Orem fighting to establish cancer care

Health & Medicine

As Obama basks in post-convention bump, polls show Romney has a tough road ahead

Global Politics

It’s all about ‘me’: what pronouns reveal about us

Arts, Culture & Media

The way you use pronouns — like ‘I, me, my’ — can reveal a lot about your personality, including how honest you are.

Ahmadinejad’s foul mouth

The Iranian president raised eyebrows when he used a crude expression, but the Iranian leader has been known to use colorful language.

Shedding light on the light bulbs debate

Environment

Efficiency standards for light bulbs have some conservatives asking why the government is dictating what people choose to use in their homes.

Fun with politics and the economy

Arts, Culture & Media

From the ridiculous to the sublime, Washington’s premier political satire troupe found a wealth of material in 2008.

Spanish language ad war

Global Politics

Barack Obama and John McCain take shots at each other in a language neither of them speaks.