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Joe Biden’s horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
The president had one job and he utterly failed at it

What to make of the US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling
The justices’ rulings sometimes seem deliberately hard to follow

Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
After a pummelling from campus protesters over Gaza, the president is struggling to get his message across

Joe Biden’s horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
The president had one job and he utterly failed at it

What to make of the US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling
The justices’ rulings sometimes seem deliberately hard to follow

Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
After a pummelling from campus protesters over Gaza, the president is struggling to get his message across
Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
It shows the surprising resilience of European diasporas
Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
The digital divide seems to have flipped
Research into trans medicine has been manipulated
Court documents offer a window into how this happens