Putting on a pair of glasses should not be enough to identify a stranger, pull up their home address, and turn a chance encounter into a data profile. But in 2024, two Harvard students did exactly that. Using Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, the facia...
Tropical forests are one of our most crucial defenses against climate change, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. A record 6.7 million hectares of rainforest were lost in 2024, largely due to agriculture and human-caused wildfires—result...
Picture this: You are freshly 16 years old, zooming down the New Jersey Turnpike with music blasting at 2 AM, hitting 103 miles per hour like it is nothing. The feeling is nipped by the glare of flashing blue lights. Panic does not set in, however, b...
This year, Cuba hosted the 24th annual International Ballet Festival, which attracted talented dancers from around the world. Media attention was focused on a very particular group of dancers: for the first time in decades, Cuban dancers who had prev...
This year, Cuba hosted the 24th annual International Ballet Festival, which attracted talented dancers from around the world. Media attention was focused on a very particular group of dancers: for the first time in decades, Cuban dancers who had prev...
On September 22, 2001, President Bush announced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had “awakened the United States to danger, and called it to defend freedom.” The al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, which brought down New York City’s Twin Towers, p...
On September 22, 2001, President Bush announced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had “awakened the United States to danger, and called it to defend freedom.” The al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, which brought down New York City’s Twin Towers, p...
“Unbelievably stupid,” is how one senator referred to the program designed in the aftermath of 9/11 to completely revamp our intelligence gathering in the Middle East. “This is just wrong,” declared another. The project to which they are refe...
“Unbelievably stupid,” is how one senator referred to the program designed in the aftermath of 9/11 to completely revamp our intelligence gathering in the Middle East. “This is just wrong,” declared another. The project to which they are refe...
It seems relatively straightforward: Four black Muslims in Newburgh, NY, known as the “Newburgh Four,” team up with Shahed Hussain, who claims to be a member of al-Qaeda, and plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and shoot Stinger missiles at mili...
It seems relatively straightforward: Four black Muslims in Newburgh, NY, known as the “Newburgh Four,” team up with Shahed Hussain, who claims to be a member of al-Qaeda, and plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and shoot Stinger missiles at mili...
In the decades since the “Militia Movement” first rose to prominence in the ’90s, the movement has received even fewer minutes of primetime coverage. Yet, the groups’ threat has not dissipated with the passage time. In fact, some would argue ...
In the decades since the “Militia Movement” first rose to prominence in the ’90s, the movement has received even fewer minutes of primetime coverage. Yet, the groups’ threat has not dissipated with the passage time. In fact, some would argue ...
Recruitment within terrorist organizations was long considered a homegrown issue, where groups attracted new members within the countries that they operate, drawing from homogenous, ideologically motivated populations with an existing undercurrent of...
Recruitment within terrorist organizations was long considered a homegrown issue, where groups attracted new members within the countries that they operate, drawing from homogenous, ideologically motivated populations with an existing undercurrent of...
After 9/11, the United States experienced an expansion of security measures that were intended to create a safer, more secure nation. This has resulted in an almost incomprehensible web of security precautions that now pervade everyday American life ...
After 9/11, the United States experienced an expansion of security measures that were intended to create a safer, more secure nation. This has resulted in an almost incomprehensible web of security precautions that now pervade everyday American life ...
‘‘Here’s how to tell if your company is a philanthropic hypocrite,” the Guardian’s Suzanne McGee fumed in early October, following news that oil giant Baker Hughes (BH) had announced a donation of $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cance...
‘‘Here’s how to tell if your company is a philanthropic hypocrite,” the Guardian’s Suzanne McGee fumed in early October, following news that oil giant Baker Hughes (BH) had announced a donation of $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cance...
A Brown University undergraduate degree in 1960 cost $45,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, tuition costs around $190,000 — enough money to pay full fare for a 1960 Brown degree and a 1960 Harvard Business School degree and still have a couple...
A Brown University undergraduate degree in 1960 cost $45,000 when adjusted for inflation. Today, tuition costs around $190,000 — enough money to pay full fare for a 1960 Brown degree and a 1960 Harvard Business School degree and still have a couple...
The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are aging out — by the year 2050, the population of American adults over the age of ...
The United States is all grown up, and the wear and tear is starting to show in all the wrong places. The baby boomers, the largest generation in American history, are aging out — by the year 2050, the population of American adults over the age of ...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
Thoroughly mixed into the cultural Kool-Aid of the United States, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating system — consisting of “G,” “PG,” “PG-13,” “R” and “NC-17” — is one of the most effective tools of censo...
Earlier this year, Google announced it would be pulling its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonprofit that has sponsored conservative state legislators and members of the private sector to draft legislation express...
Earlier this year, Google announced it would be pulling its membership from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonprofit that has sponsored conservative state legislators and members of the private sector to draft legislation express...