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Percentage of Democrat-voting college students who would not go on a date with a Trump voter… ...

From complaints submitted to the City of Reno, Nevada, last year. One night this summer I was walking with my wife and two friends from out of town. We witnessed… ...

Portion of sexually active American men who would consider using hormonal contraception… ...

From messages sent to NASA’s “Ask an Astrobiologist” Web page. David Morrison, who responds to the questions, has received more than 5,000 messages related to “Doomsday 2012” and the planet… ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a virtual discussion of War and Peace, with the thought that someone else might enjoy reading the novel with me. Three thousand people ended up ...

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Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities ...

When I began my tenure as publisher of Harper’s Magazine nearly thirty years ago, my biggest challenge — or so I thought at the time — was to get advertising… ...

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities ...