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Pioneered in 2006 by the Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomperts to serve women mostly in low-income countries where abortion was ...

Though G.O.P. members are more likely to be viewed as “extreme,” they trounce their opponents on who is more effective.

President Trump certainly had a lot to do with this new appreciation for empathy and the thrashing of Republicans at the ...

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Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

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