What do oil companies, ultraconservative think tanks, and billionaires agree on regarding global warming? Perhaps that it is propaganda, pseudoscience, or a hoax? Or perhaps something more paradoxical: that they have found its solution. For dec...
Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety vessels and often bought and traded by armed gangs, thousands of migrants and refugees face grueling challenges on the...
Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had announced the game’s end date well in advance — but when that day arrived, it vanished from players’ libraries, with no ‘offline m...
Zynbabwe. Lip Pillow. Zynnachino. Upper Decky. These are just a few of the nicknames given to Zyns, flavored nicotine pouches that users place between their lips and gum. Zyns have flooded college campuses and achieved popularity similar to that of v...
Zynbabwe. Lip Pillow. Zynnachino. Upper Decky. These are just a few of the nicknames given to Zyns, flavored nicotine pouches that users place between their lips and gum. Zyns have flooded college campuses and achieved popularity similar to that of v...
In 2018, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the Basic Law: Israel—The Nation State of the Jewish People. The law has since been widely derided for its discriminatory nature and codification of the ethnic tensions that have characterized Isr...
In 2018, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the Basic Law: Israel—The Nation State of the Jewish People. The law has since been widely derided for its discriminatory nature and codification of the ethnic tensions that have characterized Isr...
On February 16, 2024, in a scripture-filled concurrence for LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker asserted three ideals that form the “theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted...
On February 16, 2024, in a scripture-filled concurrence for LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker asserted three ideals that form the “theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted...
In 2019, Norway sent pop band Keiino to the Eurovision Song Contest. The group performed their arctic-inspired banger “Spirit in the Sky” in front of 182 million viewers and won the public vote. The crowning jewel of the song, and the principal r...
In 2019, Norway sent pop band Keiino to the Eurovision Song Contest. The group performed their arctic-inspired banger “Spirit in the Sky” in front of 182 million viewers and won the public vote. The crowning jewel of the song, and the principal r...
The deal was simple. She was a 23-year-old single mother of two children in Sweden during the early 1950s. Hindered by a battle with alcoholism, she struggled to care for her children. Now, she had fallen pregnant for a third time. She was too young ...
The deal was simple. She was a 23-year-old single mother of two children in Sweden during the early 1950s. Hindered by a battle with alcoholism, she struggled to care for her children. Now, she had fallen pregnant for a third time. She was too young ...
As the American Southwest struggles through a regional “megadrought”—the worst of its kind in 1,200 years—states continue to battle for nature’s most abundant, yet most precious, resource. Southwestern state governments are particularly con...
As the American Southwest struggles through a regional “megadrought”—the worst of its kind in 1,200 years—states continue to battle for nature’s most abundant, yet most precious, resource. Southwestern state governments are particularly con...
In 2019, Akqol became Kazakhstan’s first “smart city.” Today, an extensive network of high-resolution cameras tracks everything from pedestrians’ morning commute to traffic flow, energy consumption, and school attendance. Designed to bring ur...
In 2019, Akqol became Kazakhstan’s first “smart city.” Today, an extensive network of high-resolution cameras tracks everything from pedestrians’ morning commute to traffic flow, energy consumption, and school attendance. Designed to bring ur...
Within the muddy waters of the US healthcare system lies a persistent and ever-growing problem: Exorbitantly high drug prices. The cost of medications is on the rise, and over the past few years, 44 percent of Americans have chosen not to fill a pres...
Within the muddy waters of the US healthcare system lies a persistent and ever-growing problem: Exorbitantly high drug prices. The cost of medications is on the rise, and over the past few years, 44 percent of Americans have chosen not to fill a pres...
The death of Alexei Navalny on February 16, 2024 was equally shocking and unsurprising. Few expected Navalny’s confinement in an unusually strict Siberian penal colony to end happily, and his death spurred a dizzying set of tributes and memorials a...
The death of Alexei Navalny on February 16, 2024 was equally shocking and unsurprising. Few expected Navalny’s confinement in an unusually strict Siberian penal colony to end happily, and his death spurred a dizzying set of tributes and memorials a...
Exhausted by centuries of imperialism, 19th-century Slavic intellectuals proposed “Pan-Slavism”—or the unity of all Slavic peoples along shared cultural and political lines into a singular geopolitical bloc—as a defense against neighboring ag...
Exhausted by centuries of imperialism, 19th-century Slavic intellectuals proposed “Pan-Slavism”—or the unity of all Slavic peoples along shared cultural and political lines into a singular geopolitical bloc—as a defense against neighboring ag...
On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
On January 19, 2024, teachers went on strike in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts. Before their union came to the decision to strike—with 98 percent of members voting in favor—it spent 10 months negotiating new contracts with the city to...
When “Zooey,” a Chinese international student at the Berklee College of Music, put up posters on campus reading, “WE WANT FREEDOM—WE WANT FOOD ON OUR TABLES… STAND WITH CHINESE PEOPLE,” a fellow student and Chinese national, Xiaolei Wu, t...
When “Zooey,” a Chinese international student at the Berklee College of Music, put up posters on campus reading, “WE WANT FREEDOM—WE WANT FOOD ON OUR TABLES… STAND WITH CHINESE PEOPLE,” a fellow student and Chinese national, Xiaolei Wu, t...