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A War Neither America Nor Iran Can Win

A War Neither America Nor Iran Can Win

Fears of a return to full blown war are growing as the United States and Iran are increasingly trading military strikes. The memorandum of...

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Sanam Vakil

The Most Important Part of Therapy Happens After You Leave the Therapist’s Office

The Most Important Part of Therapy Happens After You Leave the Therapist’s Office

Mental health is a crucial component for wellness. While it’s estimated that more than 1 in 5 adults meet criteria for a major mental health...

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Joan M. Cook

Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy

Why It Is Time for the West to Crush Putin’s War Economy

The death of Senator Lindsey Graham is a devastating blow to his family, his constituents, his colleagues in government, but also a profound setback...

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

AI Should Give Rise to an Ownership Economy

AI Should Give Rise to an Ownership Economy

To achieve the American Dream, it is no longer enough to work from nine to five. For too many years, wealth has primarily accumulated in assets,...

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Lynn Forester de Rothschild

World Models Are AI’s Next Frontier

World Models Are AI’s Next Frontier

Inside the labs building the next generation of AI, a phrase has been gaining weight: world models. A large language model like ChatGPT, Claude, or...

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Celine Herweijer

Will Israel Elect Netanyahu Again?

Will Israel Elect Netanyahu Again?

It is almost time for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to face voters once again. In October 2023, when Hamas broke out of Gaza and...

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Ian Bremmer

How AI is Shaping Childhood

How AI is Shaping Childhood

For years I dreamed of silence. Between a home with three young children and a pediatric clinic crowded with restless kids, the noise at times felt...

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Dana Suskind

The Unimaginable Trauma—And Resilience—of the People of Gaza

The Unimaginable Trauma—And Resilience—of the People of Gaza

For many mornings of the past two years, 70 of my Gazan colleagues at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine have left their tents—overrun by bugs and...

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Dr. James S. Gordon

In Defense of Reading Books

In Defense of Reading Books

At a recent family gathering, a close relative told me he couldn’t remember the last time he read a book.  “What about listening to...

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Jen Benka

Israel’s Economy Is Thriving. Many Israelis Are Not.

Israel’s Economy Is Thriving. Many Israelis Are Not.

Israel appears to have pulled off an economic miracle despite nearly three years of war. The technology sector has soared, the markets have set...

13.07.2026 1

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Time Staff

Gap Years Are Wasted on the Young

Gap Years Are Wasted on the Young

Fresh off the heels of graduation from high school, many rising freshmen are choosing to step off of the treadmill for a year before matriculating in...

13.07.2026 2

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Dj Didonna

Grand Slam: Why Wimbledon Is Still the Biggest Stage in Tennis

Grand Slam: Why Wimbledon Is Still the Biggest Stage in Tennis

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Nick Pachelli

The World Cup's Strangest Rituals Reveal How Belonging Really Works

The World Cup's Strangest Rituals Reveal How Belonging Really Works

This World Cup, soccer fans are making a scene—and bringing people together, in the process.  At Boston's South Station in mid-June, a group...

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Julia Dhar

How to Ensure AI Serves the Public Good

How to Ensure AI Serves the Public Good

Throughout history, periods of major technological change have reshaped economies and transformed societies. The steam engine, electricity, and the...

10.07.2026 10

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Paschal Donohoe

The Tech Bro-ification of Marketing

The Tech Bro-ification of Marketing

Scroll through LinkedIn, and you will find a flurry of new job listings with curious titles: “Narrative Engineer”, “UGC Engineer”, “Media...

10.07.2026 7

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Miranda Shanahan

How the Iran War Worsens the Climate Crisis

How the Iran War Worsens the Climate Crisis

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara that the initial agreement to end the war between the United States...

10.07.2026 3

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Sarah Yerkes And Alejandro Martin Rodriguez

Political Candidates Have An Opening on Clean Energy

Political Candidates Have An Opening on Clean Energy

It’s 2026, gas prices are still too high, and oil executives are warning the White House that costs could get worse before they get better. The...

10.07.2026 4

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David Kieve

The Menopause Conversation Still Has One Major Blind Spot

The Menopause Conversation Still Has One Major Blind Spot

I was leading a workplace session on menopause, screens full of faces from the same company. We’d covered the standard symptoms: hot flashes, sleep...

09.07.2026 10

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Dr. Sarah Berg

Naftali Bennett: Why the U.S.-Israel Alliance Matters

Naftali Bennett: Why the U.S.-Israel Alliance Matters

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a small group of visionaries put their names to a document that changed the world. They declared, against the verdict...

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Naftali Bennett

Trump’s Attacks on the Smithsonian Are an Attack on American History

Trump’s Attacks on the Smithsonian Are an Attack on American History

On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump Administration attempted to declare independence from history...

08.07.2026 5

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Marc Stein

We’re Conservative Republicans. The SAVE Act Is a Mistake

We’re Conservative Republicans. The SAVE Act Is a Mistake

President Donald Trump’s recent refusal to sign a broadly bipartisan housing bill unless Congress first passes the SAVE America Act once again...

08.07.2026 3

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Reid Ribble And Tom Corbett

Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th

Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th

On the weekend America turned 250, two spectacles competed for the nation’s soul and only one of them felt like a celebration. The first was the...

08.07.2026 3

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

We Need Planetary Intelligence in the Age of AI

We Need Planetary Intelligence in the Age of AI

The large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are among the most powerful tools ever built. Many can give PhD-level answers to...

07.07.2026 2

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Will Marshall

How a Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Entire Digital Life

How a Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Entire Digital Life

Consider, for a moment, the architecture of your own life. The photographs of your children. The passwords to your bank. The device in your pocket...

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Ryan Pettit

The Unexpected Way AI Helped Me Appreciate My Body

The Unexpected Way AI Helped Me Appreciate My Body

Distaste for Big Tech is one of the few headline topics on which my conservative mother and I agree. We sit at her kitchen table, trying to outdo each...

07.07.2026 4

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Rebekah Taussig

Stop Mourning the Old NATO. Build the New One.

Stop Mourning the Old NATO. Build the New One.

Is Europe capable of securing itself? That is the singular question NATO leaders gathering in Ankara, the Turkish capital, for a crucial summit on...

07.07.2026 10

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Galip Dalay

How to Govern AI in a World in Rupture

How to Govern AI in a World in Rupture

Last month, I asked hundreds of young people from all over Europe what the internet would look like in 2036. For 46%, it was “something we can’t...

06.07.2026 10

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Alain Berset

The Far Gates: A father, a daughter, and flights from Iran

The Far Gates: A father, a daughter, and flights from Iran

On a June evening, I was at the Heathrow Airport in London boarding a flight for Bogotá. I was travelling to be at a wedding I had come close to not...

06.07.2026 8

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Mahsa Alimardani

The Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Rewriting the Rules of Dating

The Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Rewriting the Rules of Dating

I used to say that I wouldn’t want to date someone who lives with their parents or with roommates. But with the current cost-of-living crisis, who...

06.07.2026 9

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Meehika Barua

America’s Greatest Strength

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Robert Hormats

How to Make AI Data Centers More Sustainable

As an AI researcher studying the environmental impacts of this technology, every time I tell someone what I do for a living, I wince a little,...

03.07.2026 10

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Sasha Luccioni

Healing America Means Rethinking Patriotism

America, the world’s oldest, continuous, modern democracy, will soon celebrate its 250th birthday—mired in conflict and piloted by a belligerent...

03.07.2026 7

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Dominic Erdozain

Can Corporations Survive the Age of AI?

The greatest threat facing business today is not artificial intelligence. It is the illusion that AI is the whole challenge. Across the world,...

02.07.2026 10

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Klaus Schwab

The Business Model of Colleges Is Broken. It’s About to Get Worse

When J. Michael Haynie, chancellor of Syracuse University, announced last month that the university would miss its enrollment target and run a deficit...

02.07.2026 9

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Jeffrey Selingo

We Need to Invest in the Dignity of Work for the AI Era

At the heart of the AI is a fear that it could become the first technology in human history to lead to fewer jobs for workers and permanently higher...

01.07.2026 7

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Gene Sperling

The Myth of the National Team

After the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team’s (USMNT) emphatic victory over Paraguay and then dominating defeat of Australia, a historically...

01.07.2026 4

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Michael Morris

Why Learning a Language Still Matters

Today, AI can impressively help anyone to write and read in almost any language. This allows a surface-level exchange of ideas, but comes at a steep...

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Douglas Hofstadter

The Case Against Fireworks

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks promise to be especially explosive. The White House is endeavoring to smash the Guinness World Record for the...

30.06.2026 4

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Char Miller

Recursive Self-Improvement is the Human Skill We Need in the AI Age

The news is full of sober warnings about AI. The latest: recursive self-improvement, or RSI.  RSI is the process by which AI systems improve...

29.06.2026 10

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Arianna Huffington

How Mission Hijacking Undermines the Fight for American Democracy

The movement to strengthen democracy in America is not struggling because its enemies are too strong. It is hobbling because its friends are too many....

28.06.2026 10

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

Burnham’s Britain? Why the U.K. Is Set to Get Its Seventh Prime Minister in 10 Years

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27.06.2026 10

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Toby Helm

The Crisis I Witnessed in Haiti

The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday could expose more than 330,000 Haitians in the U.S. to the risk of being returned to one of the world’s...

26.06.2026 6

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Tirana Hassan

Why All Eyes Are On Africa at the World Cup

After years of anticipation, the World Cup has finally arrived on U.S. soil. For the players, it’s an opportunity to be etched into soccer...

26.06.2026 9

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Jeremy Ebobisse

The Faint Hope for Peace Between India and Pakistan

Around 14 long months have passed since India and Pakistan fought a four-day war. The brief and dangerous conflict has left relations between the...

26.06.2026 40

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Michael Kugelman

How AI Will Make Art Worse

Many live in quiet fear that AI will someday be, if not the death of art itself, then at least of the human artist’s livelihood. Between Hollywood...

26.06.2026 60

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Tim Brinkhof

Democracy and the Declaration of Independence

Americans will celebrate our 250th birthday this year on July 4, as we should. But such celebrations, perhaps unintentionally, have also drawn...

25.06.2026 10

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James T. Kloppenberg

America's New, Old Attitude Toward 'Foreign Entanglements'

America was born into geopolitics. The Republic’s first decades were shaped by the rivalry between the British and French empires, and George...

25.06.2026 50

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Ian Bremmer

The Story I Went Searching For—and the One That Found Me

When I set out to make Row Of Life, my first feature documentary, I never imagined it would become what it did. I thought I was signing up to make a...

25.06.2026 9

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Soraya Simi

The Two Greatest Opportunities of the AI Economy

Companies have spent more on artificial intelligence over the last two years than on any technology in a generation. Most have almost nothing on their...

25.06.2026 50

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Ravi Kumar S

Public-Private Partnerships Will Define Innovation in the AI Era

The latest advances in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology have the potential to lift living standards, boost productivity,...

24.06.2026 10

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Alois Zwinggi