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Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol. New research overturns assumption that abstinent younger drinkers are behind weak demand. Continue

Judge blocks Trump anti-DEI conditions on California, Oregon grants. Multiple federal courts have blocked the administration’s anti-DEI policies as unlawful. Continue

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Researchers declare 'catastrophic mortality event' as 145 gray whales found dead on West Coast Continue

American politics increasingly rewards short-term thinking, which makes it hard to build durable institutions and alliances Continue

People with higher openness tend to have better psychological well-being and people with higher conscientiousness tend to report greater life satisfaction and live longer Continue

The story of how the Himalayan blackberry came to swallow the West Coast is a monument to late nineteenth-century industrial ambition. Continue