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...
On September 3, 2025, trumpets sounded as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s limousine cruised through Beijing alongside thousands of soldiers for the 80th anniversary of World War II. This grandiose display of synchronized troops, hulking vehicles, an...
On September 3, 2025, trumpets sounded as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s limousine cruised through Beijing alongside thousands of soldiers for the 80th anniversary of World War II. This grandiose display of synchronized troops, hulking vehicles, an...
Students across the United States engage in mundane forms of patriotism every day. In acts of civic participation—attending protests and marches, registering voters, volunteering at clinics, and building campus coalitions—students demonstrate the...
Students across the United States engage in mundane forms of patriotism every day. In acts of civic participation—attending protests and marches, registering voters, volunteering at clinics, and building campus coalitions—students demonstrate the...
Pavlov’s process of classical conditioning is pretty simple: If he rang a bell every time he gave his dog a treat, the dog would begin to salivate at just the sound of the bell. Now, imagine that instead of a dog, it is everyone aged 15–30. Inste...
Pavlov’s process of classical conditioning is pretty simple: If he rang a bell every time he gave his dog a treat, the dog would begin to salivate at just the sound of the bell. Now, imagine that instead of a dog, it is everyone aged 15–30. Inste...
On September 4, the Nepali government banned dozens of social media platforms to curb dissent. Instead, the move unleashed mass nationwide protests. Within one week, Nepal had no government—just a burnt shell of its parliament building. Nepal...
On September 4, the Nepali government banned dozens of social media platforms to curb dissent. Instead, the move unleashed mass nationwide protests. Within one week, Nepal had no government—just a burnt shell of its parliament building. Nepal...
Giorgia Meloni, an unlikely contender to become Italy’s first female prime minister, assumed office on October 22, 2022, with ringlet curls and a bold pink lip. Far-right counterparts, like the former Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, to...
Giorgia Meloni, an unlikely contender to become Italy’s first female prime minister, assumed office on October 22, 2022, with ringlet curls and a bold pink lip. Far-right counterparts, like the former Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, to...
When a girl gets her period in parts of rural Nepal, she is whisked away to a small shed outside of her village and exiled until she stops bleeding. She is quarantined—cut off from her family, denied nutritious foods, and prohibited from bathing or...
When a girl gets her period in parts of rural Nepal, she is whisked away to a small shed outside of her village and exiled until she stops bleeding. She is quarantined—cut off from her family, denied nutritious foods, and prohibited from bathing or...
Most democracies treat government shutdowns as a crisis. The United States watches with anxiety as congressional budget deadlines approach, fearful of a shutdown. The EU sighed in relief in 2020 when Belgium re-established a coalition after more than...
Most democracies treat government shutdowns as a crisis. The United States watches with anxiety as congressional budget deadlines approach, fearful of a shutdown. The EU sighed in relief in 2020 when Belgium re-established a coalition after more than...
Every May 9, millions of Russians flood the streets with photos of the family members they lost in World War II. Victory Day, celebrated annually since 1995, is a powerful and recurring image in modern Russia. From a very early age, kids are taught a...
Every May 9, millions of Russians flood the streets with photos of the family members they lost in World War II. Victory Day, celebrated annually since 1995, is a powerful and recurring image in modern Russia. From a very early age, kids are taught a...
Never has the fatigued asphalt of India’s highways seen such liberating exhibitions of color. Contingents of saree-clad women hit the roads in their sports shoes, their ebullient expressions belying personal histories of long-calcified dreams and a...
Never has the fatigued asphalt of India’s highways seen such liberating exhibitions of color. Contingents of saree-clad women hit the roads in their sports shoes, their ebullient expressions belying personal histories of long-calcified dreams and a...
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where w...
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where w...
What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the Bar Exam, law school graduates must complete a 36-page questionnaire ab...
What do Barack Obama and a five-time bank robber have in common? They both passed the Character and Fitness test to become lawyers. To verify their moral character as part of the Bar Exam, law school graduates must complete a 36-page questionnaire ab...
Picture a field peppered with wildflowers, tall grass swaying in the wind. A picnic blanket cradles plates of fresh fruit while friends frolic nearby. They collapse on the ground, exhausted but elated, savoring the joy of existing alongside one anoth...
Picture a field peppered with wildflowers, tall grass swaying in the wind. A picnic blanket cradles plates of fresh fruit while friends frolic nearby. They collapse on the ground, exhausted but elated, savoring the joy of existing alongside one anoth...