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In a country that is celebrated for its culture of reckoning and remembrance, the richest families are often an exception.

The work of Norma Mercado, a Texas school system’s point person for dealing with homeless young people, is benefiting from a big but tempora

Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch.

What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century?

Forbes thinks there are 735 of them in America. Another count finds 927. Whatever the answer, the mystery is revealing — and the number is g

The French economist has hope for the country that, to a large extent, invented high, progressive taxation of income.

What if consent isn’t enough?

How an Arizona man who’s never held elected office has shaped one of America’s most punitive criminal justice systems.

Imagine a world that gave high schoolers more options.

Tiny bits of plastic have infiltrated the deep sea’s main food source and could alter the ocean’s role in one of Earth’s ancient cooling pro

Rap music is increasingly showing up as evidence in criminal trials.

My looks don’t fit into classical ideals of order, proportion, symmetry. So what was I looking for in that gallery in Rome?

At every step of his political career, Joe Manchin helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business

How a Mississippi inmate became an advocate for his own execution

<p>The creator of Harry Potter could imagine the most marvelous fictional universe in children’s literature—yet she can’t imagine the inner

Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?

Teens at Louisiana’s newest juvenile lockup, Acadiana Center for Youth at St. Martinville, were held in solitary confinement around the cloc

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