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Laura Benshoff

Recent Contributions

  • Many Americans don't know basic abortion facts. Test your knowledge
  • Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help
  • As more GOP governors race to ban TikTok on state devices, a federal ban looms
  • Ballot measures on weed and abortion won in 2022. Now they're fueling a backlash
  • How GOP state supreme court wins could change state policies and who runs Congress
  • Expanding Medicaid is popular. That's why it's a key issue in some statewide midterms
  • The Nord Stream pipelines have stopped leaking. But the methane emitted broke records
  • The U.S. will officially phase down HFCs, gases trapping 1,000x more heat than CO2
  • Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species. That may be about to change.
  • Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism