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The child care cliff that wasn’t
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The silver lining in a very bad poll for Biden
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What the Methodist split tells us about America
A separation of church and church.
The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explained
Multiple federal courts are fighting over Louisiana's illegal racial gerrymander.
J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history
An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.
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Separation of church and church
Leaders of the United Methodist Church, one of the largest Christian denominations in the US, gathered in North Carolina to hash out a disagreement that’s dividing the church. Today, Explained’s Laura Bullard and church historian Ashley Boggan Dreff explain what the Methodist split tells us about America.