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How chatbots can help reporters pull back the corporate curtain

Did you know? Reporters can use corporate chatbots to find information about the firms that made them. Here's how.
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Understanding property tax revolts

Seven states have proposed property tax changes on the ballot for the upcoming midterm elections. Reporters, read this inform ...
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Smartphones are distracting even when you’re not using them

Smartphones have appropriated a prized place in our pockets faster than anyone could have imagined 10 years ago, in 2007, when Apple introduced the first iPhone. Today, billions of people around the ...
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What happens to doctors and patients when private equity firms sell medical practices?

This article about private equity in health care was republished with permission from Harvard Business Working Knowledge, where it first appeared. Private equity firms have been buying stakes in ...
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What’s tribal sovereignty and what does it mean for Native Americans?

Tribal sovereignty, often viewed as a legal term, sits at the center of almost every issue affecting tribal nations existing within the United States’ geographical borders. In its most basic sense, ...
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Research shows spike in youth suicide attempts, depression after the COVID-19 pandemic began

The number of times children and adolescents came to hospital emergency rooms after attempting suicide jumped 22% across 18 countries, including the U.S., during the first two years of the COVID-19 ...
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Do election lawn signs generate votes? New research

After pooling the results of the four experiments and examining their averages, it appears that lawn signs raise vote shares, on average, by slightly more than 1 percentage point. Based on pooled ...
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Can universal background checks curb gun violence? Here’s what the research says.

Recent mass shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Uvalde, Texas; and Buffalo, New York are just three of the 233 mass shootings in the U.S. this year — down slightly from 240 mass shootings at this time last ...
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ICE and hospitals: What does the removal of the ‘protected areas’ policy mean for hospitals?

Within hours after taking office on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump revoked a policy that protected designated areas such as schools, places of worship, hospitals, health clinics and doctors’ ...
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Reporting on violence and threats against US election workers: 6 things to know

Threats against poll workers made national news following false claims from former President Donald Trump and supporters that Joe Biden had fraudulently won the 2020 presidential election. For example ...
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Research links lynching in the U.S. South generations ago to lower rates of Black voter registration today

Black people have lower voter registration rates in parts of the U.S. South where lynching occurred most often in the decades following the Civil War, according to forthcoming research in the American ...