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Why Is Gas So Expensive Right Now?
Oil, shipping, refineries, and taxes all affect the price at the pump. This case follows the connections and asks which explanations hold up.
Read the caseThe Sift Room follows public claims and everyday questions: what happened, why it matters, and what the evidence can tell us.
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Oil, shipping, refineries, and taxes all affect the price at the pump. This case follows the connections and asks which explanations hold up.
Price snapshot · 11 min read
Read the case ↗An aspiring teacher asks how she could afford a home. What would a useful answer need to offer—and what can the evidence tell us?
Evidence reviewed · 11 min read
Essay · 12 min read
Can another person’s chance to learn give us a reason to help before we have made a promise?
Essay · 10 min read
What Native nonprofits owe the people they serve: honest accounts of their work, a way to question decisions, and corrections that reach those already let down.
Working essay · 35 min read
Capacity does not create authority. An institution may have greater resources or expertise, but that does not give it the right to decide what happens to Indigenous heritage.