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“House Democrats approved a bill Friday afternoon to make the District of Columbia the nation's 51st state. The vote was 232-180 largely along party [lines] and the legislation is expected to go no further in the face of opposition by Republicans in the Senate.” (NPR)

The right opposes DC statehood, arguing that it would be contrary to the founders’ vision and that Democrats support it

Twitter CEO Elon Musk publicly defended his social-media platform suspending the accounts of several journalists, saying they had violated rules against “doxxing.”

Mr. Musk took to Twitter after several news outlets began reporting on the bans to state that they were not because the journalists, who all covered him and Twitter, had criticized him but that the platform had rules against

While the exact division of power in the U.S. Senate is yet to be determined, we do know Democrats will control the House and that Joe Biden is on track to become the 46th president. Throughout the campaign, the biggest issue looming in voters’ minds was the continued threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s one that Biden has vowed to make a priority, having already named several members of

We are not only in an epidemiological crisis, we also are in an epistemological crisis. How do we know what we know? What differentiates opinion from a justified belief?

For nearly two years, the public has been inundated by a sophisticated messaging campaign that urges us to “trust the science.”

But how can a non-scientist know what the science is really saying?

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