Legislation

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How State Visits Work—Diplomacy's Grandest Tool Culture

How State Visits Work—Diplomacy's Grandest Tool

State visits are the highest form of diplomatic exchange between nations, involving elaborate protocol from 21-gun salutes to state dinners. Here's ho...

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How Fuel Excise Taxes Work—and Why They Get Suspended Economy

How Fuel Excise Taxes Work—and Why They Get Suspended

Fuel excise taxes fund roads and transit worldwide, but governments routinely suspend them when prices spike. Here's how they work, who pays, and why...

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How FCC TV Ownership Rules Work—and Why They Matter Culture

How FCC TV Ownership Rules Work—and Why They Matter

The FCC caps how many television stations one company can own, but loopholes like the UHF discount let broadcasters reach far more households than the...

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How Naloxone Works—and Why It Reverses Overdoses Health

How Naloxone Works—and Why It Reverses Overdoses

Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that can reverse a life-threatening overdose in minutes by blocking opioid receptors in the brain. Here is how the dr...

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What Are Nitazenes—and Why They Scare Experts More Than Fentanyl Health

What Are Nitazenes—and Why They Scare Experts More Than Fentanyl

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids first created in the 1950s that can be up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl. Never approved for medical...

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How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works Technology

How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows US intelligence agencies to collect foreign nationals' electronic communications witho...

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How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter

Glaciers store about 75% of Earth's freshwater and supply water to nearly two billion people. A small but growing number of countries have passed laws...

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How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work—and Why Drug Prices Rise Health

How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work—and Why Drug Prices Rise

Pharmacy benefit managers negotiate drug prices for 275 million Americans, yet critics say their opaque rebate and spread-pricing practices help drive...

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How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail Science

How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail

Fishing quotas are meant to prevent overfishing, but the process that turns scientific advice into catch limits is riddled with political compromise....

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How the US Postal Service Works—and Why It's Broke Economy

How the US Postal Service Works—and Why It's Broke

The USPS delivers to 167 million addresses daily without tax funding. Here's how its unique business model works, why mail volume collapse and mandato...

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How Airport Slots Work—and Why They Cost Millions Economy

How Airport Slots Work—and Why They Cost Millions

Airport slots are landing and takeoff rights at congested airports, allocated through a global system of grandfather rights, use-it-or-lose-it rules,...

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How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product Technology

How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product

A legal revolution is underway as courts apply traditional product liability law to social media platforms, treating addictive design features like in...

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