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Nursing Homes Have Become Last-Resort Housing

Nursing Homes Have Become Last-Resort Housing

As an occupational therapist working in medical respite care, Caitlin Synovec saw people in their 50s or 60s at a moment when their lives had forever...

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Michele Cohen Marill

K-pop, BTS, and What the Grammys Get Wrong About Asian Music

K-pop, BTS, and What the Grammys Get Wrong About Asian Music

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Stephanie Choi

We Turned Sleep Into Homework. Now We’re Losing Sleep Over It

We Turned Sleep Into Homework. Now We’re Losing Sleep Over It

A few months ago, a new patient sat down in my office and started talking before I had finished my hello. She hadn’t slept well in months, and it...

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Joshua Tal

What Peacemaking Loses When Women Are Left Out

What Peacemaking Loses When Women Are Left Out

Wars exact a heavy toll on women and yet, too often their voices and concerns are pushed to the margins of global peacemaking. Since the end of the...

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Cristal Downing

Why You Should Join a Choir

Why You Should Join a Choir

Last year, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something wasn’t right. My life was fine—wonderful, even—and yet mercurial feelings of anxiety,...

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Elizabeth Endicott

The Data Center Debate Taking Over Native American Tribes

The Data Center Debate Taking Over Native American Tribes

Whether to support data center development is a defining issue in this campaign season, and it is a debate that has taken over many Native American...

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Petala Ironcloud

AI Arrived at the Worst Possible Moment

AI Arrived at the Worst Possible Moment

AI is not arriving in a world capable of receiving it. Instead, it is coming into a world that has spent the last two decades systematically...

24.09.2026 4

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Tiffany Xingyu Wang

What the World Owes the Marshall Islands

What the World Owes the Marshall Islands

This week, the U.N. General Assembly affirmed that statehood endures the loss of land. My country, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, will persist...

24.09.2026 7

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Hilda C. Heine

America, China and the Evolving New World Order

America, China and the Evolving New World Order

On Thursday, President Xi Jinping of China is meeting President Donald Trump at the White House. The United States and China are in significantly...

24.09.2026 10

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Yu Jie

Philanthropy Must Build the Architecture of Hope

Philanthropy Must Build the Architecture of Hope

I grew up in a middle class family in Mumbai, where my parents taught us the importance of giving back. Our success, they insisted, was meaningful...

24.09.2026 6

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Nita M. Ambani

Governments Must Prohibit Superintelligent AI While We Still Can

Governments Must Prohibit Superintelligent AI While We Still Can

This month, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, resigned, warning that AI companies are racing towards “self-improving superintelligence” and...

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Andrea Miotti

America Must Win Back Its Global Standing

America Must Win Back Its Global Standing

“From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land,” President Donald Trump declared in his inaugural address in January 2017. “From this...

23.09.2026 10

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Gordon Brown

The Next Four Years Will Decide the Ocean’s Future

The Next Four Years Will Decide the Ocean’s Future

This summer, the ocean sent us another warning. In August, global sea-surface temperatures reached their highest level on record. Days later, the most...

23.09.2026 8

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Danny Faure

You Actually Don’t Need to See That Movie in IMAX

You Actually Don’t Need to See That Movie in IMAX

2026 has, without a doubt, been the year of IMAX. That’s due in large part to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which broke countless box office...

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Helen Murphy

What We Tell Our Kids About AI

What We Tell Our Kids About AI

Between us, we have six children. The oldest is 12. None of them has a phone yet, and none has asked us whether artificial intelligence is going to...

22.09.2026 9

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Alex Karnal And Brian Kreiter

Revisiting Childhood Hobbies Is a Way to Learn Who You Are as an Adult

Revisiting Childhood Hobbies Is a Way to Learn Who You Are as an Adult

I swept my arm overhead, forming a half-moon shape as my body bent into a side stretch. I could almost hear the ballet instructors of my childhood...

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Rainesford Stauffer

We Need to Stop Talking Like Climate Change Is Partisan

We Need to Stop Talking Like Climate Change Is Partisan

This summer of disasters has shown us that climate impacts are not political, and it is past time we stopped talking about them as if they were. A...

21.09.2026 10

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Katharine Hayhoe And Dana R. Fisher

We Have a Climate Imagination Problem

We Have a Climate Imagination Problem

Earlier this year I stood in a draughty sports hall, facing rows of 10-year-olds sitting cross-legged on the scuffed floor. I asked them a question:...

21.09.2026 10

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Solitaire Townsend

Why K-Pop Took Off When C-Pop Didn’t

Why K-Pop Took Off When C-Pop Didn’t

It’s not often that an 18th century folk song can be said to be the inspiration for a pop concert. But those who attended the finale of BTS’...

21.09.2026 10

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Bobby Ghosh

Helicopter Parenting Can Help Children Recover From Concussions

Helicopter Parenting Can Help Children Recover From Concussions

Concussions in children are alarmingly frequent, affecting over a million children in the U.S. each year. An estimated 50% of all concussions are...

20.09.2026 10

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Teena Shetty

Can Kevin Warsh Change the Federal Reserve?

Can Kevin Warsh Change the Federal Reserve?

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19.09.2026 10

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Roger W. Ferguson

What 1,000 Women Workers Can Teach Us About Surviving Extreme Heat

On Sept. 2, 2026, the United Nations Environment Program report, Limiting Overshoot, declared that the world has fallen short of keeping global...

19.09.2026 10

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Satchit Balsari

How to Make the U.S.-China AI Race Less Dangerous

How to Make the U.S.-China AI Race Less Dangerous

The timing could hardly be worse. Even as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend to discuss AI,...

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Julian Gewirtz And Matt Sheehan

Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem, and Why Grieving a Celebrity Feels So Personal

Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem, and Why Grieving a Celebrity Feels So Personal

Recently, the world has collectively mourned the unexpected losses of several well-known public figures, from Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem to Bob...

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Lisa McCarty

How to Govern the Existential Risk of AI

How to Govern the Existential Risk of AI

The current state of paralysis when it comes to the governance of frontier AI technology is causing tangible harm today and raising the odds of...

17.09.2026 20

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Mary Robinson And Ahmet Üzümcü

Why the U.S. Urgently Needs More Platelet Donors

Why the U.S. Urgently Needs More Platelet Donors

Picture these frightening scenarios: a family member receiving intensive treatment for leukemia is unable to receive lifesaving platelets because of...

17.09.2026 20

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Robert Glatter And Peter Papadakos

Attacks Against Judges Are an Attack Against America’s Constitution

Attacks Against Judges Are an Attack Against America’s Constitution

We were appointed to the federal bench by presidents of different parties. One of us was nominated by President Ronald Reagan; the other by President...

17.09.2026 20

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Paul R. Michel And Robert J. Cindrich

The Politicization of ‘DEI’ Bike Lanes

What do President Donald Trump and Pastor A.D. Cunningham of the United House of Prayer for All People (a predominantly Black church in Washington,...

16.09.2026 10

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Evan Friss

Why AI Makes Customer Service Worse, And What Companies Can Do To Fix It

I am on hold with music that is no doubt the same music played on loop in the fifth circle of hell. It’s been 35 minutes. It will be 50 minutes...

16.09.2026 20

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Francine Berman

We Need a Mayor for President

The 2028 presidential race is already taking shape, and there’s a Zohran Mamdani-shaped hole in it. New York City’s relentlessly upbeat new mayor...

16.09.2026 10

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Alexander Heffner,

America’s Investing Identity Crisis

What compelled hundreds of thousands of people around the world to invest in the initial public offering of Elon Musk’s SpaceX this summer? It...

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Robin Wigglesworth

Nepal Cannot Stop the Floods. It Can Stop Them From Becoming Disasters.

The floods in Nepal and Tibet have been terrifying: some 1,386 people have died, and around 5,000 remain unaccounted for. The flood destroyed bridges,...

15.09.2026 10

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Dan Haines

How the 1980s Permanently Shaped America

Like most Americans, I arrived at the election watch party on Nov. 4, 1980, expecting a long night. It was a little before 9:00 p.m. in Chicago. By...

15.09.2026 20

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Jonathan Kaufman

What Is Actually New About the AI Revolution?

In just a few years, AI has gone from a specialist topic to something everyone has opinions on. It has been praised as miraculous, condemned as...

14.09.2026 10

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Paula Goldman

What It Was Like to Know Gloria Steinem

I was a 33-year-old organizer when I first met Gloria Steinem in 2007. Despite being a women’s studies major in college, I had not fully grasped...

14.09.2026 20

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Ai-Jen Poo

How the Iran War Forced the Gulf to Rethink Its Security

Showing up at a funeral matters everywhere, but especially in the Arab world and the wider Middle East. When Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei,...

14.09.2026 20

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H.a. Hellyer

The High Cost of Winning a Michelin Star

Two out of every five Michelin-starred restaurants close their doors within a few years of receiving the honor, a statistic so counterintuitive that...

14.09.2026 10

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Tulasi Srinivas

How to Recognize and Ask for Help When You Need It

We all know at least one or two adults who like to have things done for them: someone to run their errands, drive them to the doctor, pick up their...

13.09.2026 10

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Joan M. Cook

The AfD's Dark Agenda for Germany

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

12.09.2026 10

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John Kampfner

Why a Divided BRICS Poses No Challenge to America

When the leaders of BRICS, the bloc of emerging economies, gather in New Delhi on Saturday for their 18th summit, they will have plenty to talk...

11.09.2026 10

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Ian Bremmer

How 9/11 Helped Shape Our Politics Today

From the moment they occurred, the terror attacks of  Sept. 11, 2001 were seen as inaugurating a new age of asymmetric violence and warfare....

11.09.2026 10

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Faisal Devji

25 Years After 9/11, Americans Must Remember What Binds Us

I’m almost certain I’ve heard more 9/11 stories than anyone else on earth. For almost 12 years, I served as the founding CEO of the National 9/11...

11.09.2026 10

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Joe Daniels

AI Should Be a Wake-Up Call For Universities

The debate over how AI will impact higher education has narrowed into a single and well-worn groove: in a world where machines can think, how do we...

10.09.2026 10

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Arianna Huffington

9/11 and the Substitute Mother

In 2001, I lost the world I knew. Twenty-five years later, I’m accidentally rebuilding it.  “I think people think you’re my mother,” my...

10.09.2026 20

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Diana Miller

Trump’s Attacks on the Environment Are Out of Touch With America

The most pro-American stance a leader can take is to defend our best ideas. America's national parks and our nation’s beautiful environment are...

10.09.2026 20

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Benji Backer

AI Is at a Turning Point

In the current AI development race, our horsepower is exploding, our speed is picking up exponentially, but our ability to steer—and if needed, to...

09.09.2026 10

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Yoshua Bengio

The Promise of the Kurdish Peace

August brought some truly transformative good news for Turkey, the Kurds, and Turkey’s immediate neighborhood in the Middle East. On Aug. 10, the...

09.09.2026 10

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Galip Dalay

Dating Apps Are Dying

Everyone I know has either deleted dating apps, stopped using them, or is considering it. The icons lie dormant on their phones: technically still...

09.09.2026 20

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Meehika Barua

We Must Defend the Refugee Convention

In 1941, as the Nazis swept through Greece and took Athens, my grandfather, Nicolas Taptiklis, fled for his life. In the middle of the night, he...

08.09.2026 10

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Theo James

The Leaders AI Innovation Needs

For over 25 years, I have studied exceptional leaders of innovation, individuals from a range of companies and countries, from the Cleveland Clinic...

08.09.2026 20

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Linda A. Hill