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This week, in the sweltering month of August, Sarah Anderson explores the surprisingly short history of a treasured luxury: air conditioning. Most Americans now have it at home. But at work, it's another story. Moreover, as the technology spreads to developing...

If our economy is as fair as some like to say, why is it so unequal? And what's that mean for those who get the short end of it? This week in OtherWords, Josh Hoxie looks at the myth of "fairness" and at new research showing how it actually harms one of the largest...

There's more health care drama in Congress this week, which we've written loads about lately: See a partial list here for anything you might've missed. An interesting question is why Congress is in such a rush to get the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, repealed....

Thanks to unified Democratic opposition and a few defections from key Republican senators, the congressional effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is over for now. But, Geoff Coventry writes this week, the GOP has "shown their cards." In every...

This week the RussiaGate scandal, which had actually simmered down for a time, got a huge boost when reporters discovered emails about a meeting between a certain Donald Trump, Jr. and someone connected to the Russian government promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. It...

Here in Washington all eyes were on health care last week, where Senate leaders were trying to move along a health bill that could throw 22 million Americans off their insurance. (That's what Trump calls "winning," Jill Richardson writes this week.) The bill hasn't...

Here are two interesting numbers: The Senate health care bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, would throw 22 million more Americans off their insurance over the next decade alone, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. And, perhaps...

This week in OtherWords, we take a closer look at foreign policy. Olivia Alperstein observes that the president seems almost over-eager to pick fights with allies and other countries, like Iran, that the U.S. has forged hard-won diplomatic agreements. But he seems to...

Donald Trump is recently returned from his first trip overseas as president. Numerous gags from the trip made headlines — some sharp elbows during a photo op, a glowing orb. But a more serious moment occurred during Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia, where he lectured his...