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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Reporting Highlights A Powerful Doctor: Dr. Nancy Harper is a leading child abuse pediatrician based in Minnesota. She testifies in criminal trials across the
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Why can’t there be world peace? Because every great nation wants to be on top.   That means China, Russia, and the USA are battling to be the number one nation on earth. Why? Because biology has built something strange into us:  the pecking order, the social totem pole, the ladder of status, what scientists call the “dominance hierarchy.”  And
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What I find maddening these days is how little attention is given to the attacks on the Christian world. A world that, I must admit, has not always been kind to my people. And yet, a world that has, over centuries, undergone profound reform. That has contributed to our foundation of Enlightenment, civilization, and the
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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Congressional Republicans, looking for ways to offset their proposed tax cuts, are seeking to mandate that millions of Americans work in order to receive federally
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“We must chop off Trump’s hand, slit Netanyahu’s throat, [and] annihilate Israel.” Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, senior advisor to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps In the past week, the Middle East has been transformed dramatically.  Here’s how. Iran says it has never pursued a nuclear weapon.  In fact, Iran began work on nuclear weapons over 35 years ago,
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