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Whenever a friend tells me something, I blab about it to other people. Why can’t I stop?

In his new novel, the present isn’t much better than the past—and it’s a lot less sexy.

The former president says that there are “a lot of bad genes in our country right now.”

The return of Nate Bargatze and his now-classic George Washington sketch points to the surprise viral hits that have kept the show going 50 years on.

The 2015 Paris Agreement was a landmark, but countries need to raise their ambition again to complete the transition away from fossil fuels.

The U.K. enjoys a bipartisan consensus on phasing out tobacco use. But some see it as a new front in a culture war against the nanny state.