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Gloria Steinem fought for a multi-racial, intersectional feminist movement and we must not forget it—or omit to actually read her.

The trailblazing feminist spoke out for the legalisation of abortion, same-sex marriage and equal pay for women - but her activism was not without backlash.

An hour into their descent, the group called the Sheriff’s Office Dispatch to ask for directions but eventually wandered off route into Mud Creek Canyon.

The Education Department gathers a massive tranche of civil rights data about public school students. It's now available but harder to parse than in the past.

Four years after firing an engineer who claimed an AI system had become conscious, Google is researching how it could happen.

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Looking for a good new restaurant near downtown Seattle? We have 18 ideas, from a Brazilian counter at Pike Place Market to a Japanese chain's latest outpost.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and soprano Renée Fleming about their collaborative project and album, "The Fiddle and The Drum," which celebrates Appalachian folk music.

Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm

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Claire Bond Potter on Susan Brownmiller’s landmark 1975 book, Against Our Will , fifty years later.

Americans have always moved away. These days, expat Lindsey Tramuta writes, record numbers are leaving or planning to leave in search of health care, civil rights, freedoms, even safety. Does exiting ...

The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

The Pacific Palisades fire of January 25 destroyed much of that coastal Los Angeles neighborhood, but it somehow spared the Charles and Ray Eames house.

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In a bold move, former Meta senior director Nicolas Franchet has filed a lawsuit against the tech giant, claiming age discrimination in its 2025 layoffs. Franchet, who lost nearly $12 million in unves...

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Trump has degraded the Justice Department. It’s not too early to think about reconstruction.

The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

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What if you really did live every day as if it were your last? That was Brian’s plan.

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