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Several new polls include a version of the familiar right-way/wrong-way poll question. Like the Archive of the Roper Center According to surveys, pollsters have been asking this question since at least 1971, when the Opinion Research Corporation found that 29% thought things in the country were “generally going in the right direction” and 63% thought things had “gone very seriously wrong.”Since then, the question has been asked many times. There have been only a few times when Americans told pollsters that the country was on the right track. In 1984-85, during the Reagan presidency, when Americans finally felt things were…
Medical technology concept with 3D rendering of artificial skin robot analyzes tooth x-ray tomographygettyWe’re getting a lot of information from AI that previously eluded even modern generations of scientists – and some of the most important are coming back to oral health.This is revolutionizing an area of medicine that, by most accounts, could use some modernization. Dental work has been largely the same for the past 30 or 40 years – but that is likely to change soon. Artificial intelligence is changing almost everything about how professionals deal with “caries” or missing teeth or protect moths from decay in other…
UN missions attend ‘Threads of Tradition’ in an immersive interactive event on Tajikistan in New York, May 2025Melik KailanReaders of this column know that Central Asia has been in the spotlight especially in recent years. The region gained added importance with the end of the Afghan war freeing up the direction neighboring countries could take in the future. Strategically, economically and culturally it matters which direction the ‘Stans’ take because of the implications for the rest of the world, especially nearby powers like Russia, China and India. To this end, columns were devoted to pan-Turkish cultural/political harmonization of countries from…
A United Nations flag is pictured at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. (Photo: Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images)Xinhua News Agency via Getty ImagesOn 22 October 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, released a statement condemning the last public execution in Afghanistan and calling it in reality authorities to immediately impose a moratorium and abolish the use of the death penalty. The statement follows the in reality Afghanistan’s Supreme Court announced on October 16 that a man was publicly executed at a sports stadium in Badghis province…
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The campaign to replace Colorado’s flat income tax with a progressive rate structure is hitting a roadblock.gettyOn June 22, 1987, Colorado became the first state in the nation to switch from a progressive income tax code to a single rate when then-Governor Roy Romer (D) signed House Bill 1331 into law. Now, nearly four decades later, a ballot campaign called Protect Colorado’s Future (PCF) seeks to return the state to a progressive income tax system.”A coalition led by the Bell Policy Center is promoting the proposal, which is estimated to cut taxes for any individual or corporation earning less than…
Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale with each other, but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies are: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.gettyJupiter is responsible for both activating and organizing the architecture of our inner solar system and creating the necessary conditions for the formation of Earth itself, say the authors of a new paper published in the journal Advances in Science. The 11.5-year solar orbit of our massive gas giant planet has long been known…
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