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America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2023

Ambulatory surgical centers are facilities where patients can have common surgical procedures that don't require them to be hospitalized-common things like cataract surgery or a colonoscopy.

Business or Power?

China, the world's largest exporter, has stakes in global ports. Its merchant ships are under party control. Western experts worry about espionage, economic coercion and military expansion

THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO THE Midterms 2022

Here's a look at the key races and trends and what the results on November 8 will mean for the future of the country

Split DECISION?

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 55 YEARS, THIS ELECTION SEASON could end with Democrats and Republicans heading an equal number of state governments. Fueled by voter concerns over abortion access and a slate of far-right Republican nominees, the odds are increasing that Democrats can retain or flip enough of the 36 governorships up for grabs on November 8 to prompt a 25-to-25-state tie between the two parties, versus the current 28-22 GOP lead. That even split has only happened one other time since Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959-back in 1967, in the thick of another painfully divisive era in American politics.

Phil Rosenthal

\"Food is the great connector. And for me, laughs are the cement.\"

THE LONGEST WAR

Will Black World War II veterans finally get their due?

Live Laugh Lay Waste

Moms for Liberty is upending schools and radicalizing parents and it could decide the midterms.

CAPITOL EXPRESS

Gov. Greg Abbott bused thousands of migrants from Texas to DC. Here's what became of them.

FREE THE PILL

The FDA is poised to approve the first over-the-counter birth control. What took so long?

TRIGGER MAN

Republican politicians have embraced Donald Trump's incitement to violence

BAD LOSERS

Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.

THE SCAPEGOAT

A MUSEUM CURATOR WAS FORCED OUT of HER JOB OVER ALLEGATIONS of RACISM THAT AN INVESTIGATION DEEMED UNFOUNDED. WHAT DID HER DEFENESTRATION ACCOMPLISH?

The Literature of Paranoia

Living in Turkey has made Orhan Pamuk a master of the genre.

LET PUERTO RICO BE FREE

The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States.

Surveillance State

From abortion to schools, the GOP is turning Ben SPIK everyday citizens into culture war snitches.

SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

The case for combining farming and solar energy

POWER BALL

How oligarchs, private equity, and petrostates took over soccer

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE

Harm reduction is demonized by conservative media and attacked by lawmakers. This is what it actually looks like.

SLIM PICKINGS

Netflix's reality show Love Is Blind promised to ignore looks, but then platformed thin white people anyway.

The Long History of Russian Brutality

What the fratricidal fury of the country's civil war a century ago can teach us about the invasion of Ukraine

Take a Chance on Them

ABBA makes a triumphant return.

The Trap

What it takes to make it in hip-hops new capital

Lenovo Grows Customer Connections With Oracle CrowdTwist

MyLenovo Rewards program is making members aware of Lenovo's other products and services via promotions, sweepstakes and just plain old communication.

Best online Shops 2023

The National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that U.S.consumer spending will grow somewhere between 6 percent and 8 percent this year, to $4.86 trillion.

Antoni Porowski

"In the food space, we have such a wonderful opportunity to tell diverse stories."

Bitcoin is Worse for the Planet Than Beef

Experts believe the environmental costs of cryptocurrency mining are They also point to a more Earth-friendly alternative unsustainable.

THE ANXIETY EPIDEMIC

STRESS IS DISABLING FOR AN ALARMING NUMBER OF AMERICANS, BUT SCIENCE CAN HELP

Salt: A Global Pantry

Salt is as familiar as water and the air we breathe, and it's just as essential to us.

Danielle Deadwyler

THE IMAGE OF EMMETT TILL'S MUTILATED CORPSE, MURDERED BY WHITE supremcists in 1955, changed the course of the Civil Rights movement.

Dell Is NO.1

DESPITE ITS SIZE-SOME 130,000 EMPLOYEES AND $100 BILLION IN SALES-THE TEXAS TECH GIANT HAS MANAGED TO MAINTAIN ITS REP AS A Good Employer and Talent Magnet