Geography and regional rivalries have prevented Gulf countries from finding a true alternative to the strait, which the war with Iran has effectively shut down. By Rebecca F. Elliott and Vivian Nereim ...

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Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters.

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Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that ...

In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...

Ewan Gleadow is a breaking news reporter for Raw Story based in the United Kingdom. He previously worked for The Daily Mirror and its sister site, The Mirror US. He also runs the music and culture ...

Katie Frankowicz’s analysis of the debacle at Tongue Point, “Tongue Point shipyard falls short of promise, faces lawsuits,” is the best-written, most thoroughly researched, and most in-depth article I ...